When the second semester began, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team had a 14-2 record and was solidly in the Top 10 of the Ratings Percentage Index.
Since then, the Badgers – who play Indiana tonight at the Kohl Center – are 1-5 and have dropped to 25th in the RPI, a measure of strength of schedule and performance against that schedule that the NCAA uses to set its tournament field.