The shrill cries of social media whiners ring out from Superior to Green Bay to Racine, Platteville, La Crosse and Eau Claire.
They were right! A dreadful February for the Wisconsin Badgers Menโs Basketball team proves it!
UW is currently 10-7 in the conference, tied for fourth of the 14 teams in the Big Ten. They have nonconference wins over Virginia and top-5 Marquette.
Last year, in a down year, the team won 20 total games.
Thatโs a program whose coach you want to fire?
Proud menโs basketball programs Michigan and Ohio State sit in dead last of the Big Ten standings. Maryland, which has a relatively-recent national title, is down there too, as is Indiana, which has fired coach after coach since Bobby Knight was forced out.
And people want to move on from Greg Gard, whose team has fallen all the way to fourth?
The season isnโt even over yet.
Since becoming head coach in the middle of the 2015-2016 season, Gard has won the third-most games in the Big Ten. What was an 11- and 12-team conference during Bo Ryanโs tenure is now a 14-team league
Sure, he hasnโt kept up with Ryanโs legendary run of top-four finishes, but heโs come close in a bigger and tougher conference.
Heโs also won a share of a conference title, in 2019-2020, with no players on the first or second All-Big Ten Teams. Thatโs a coaching feat that had
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