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It’s difficult to say which event would have sounded more incredible months ago: No. 4 retiring after verging on Super Bowl status, or the Badgers men’s basketball team winning a share, and probably more, of the Big Ten title.
Basketball programs like Wisconsin’s don’t perennially stay in the hunt; that’s a domain that belongs to schools like Duke, North Carolina and so on. This year, the Badgers didn’t follow that pattern of conventional wisdom.
To be assured the title of Big Ten champions, Wisconsin had to overcome some strong currents holding it back.
With the loss of Alando Tucker and Kammron Taylor who together averaged over 33 points per game last year, the question was how would those points be made up? Yet this year's team is scoring only about 2 points less per game than last year because players have stepped up.
Defensively, the Badgers are a good defensive team.

Favre’s retirement not as surprising as basketball title - The Daily Cardinal