It’s the most shocking development of the Big Ten Conference season so far.
Forget the rise of Penn State and Northwestern, the collapse of Indiana or the dominance of Michigan State. What’s raising eyebrows across the country is that the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, the pillar of Big Ten excellence this decade, has lost four straight games and is mired in the second division of the conference standings.
In search for an explanation, some of the so-called experts have focused on whether the Badgers’ talent is strong enough to compete in a conference with a bevy of vastly improved, more athletic teams.