This season, more than the Big Ten Conference title campaigns of 2001-02 and 2002-03 or the run to the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight in 2004-05, established the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team at the forefront of the collegiate basketball landscape.
The Badgers established a school record for victories (30), Big Ten victories (13), reeled off a school-record 17-game winning streak, and achieved the first No. 1 ranking in school history. Along the way, there were nationally televised specials on ABC and HBO, and ESPN did an all-access piece daily from the Big Ten tournament through the NCAA tournament, which ended with Sunday’s 74-68 second-round loss to UNLV at the United Center in Chicago.
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