Entering Thursday’s showdown with No. 8 Michigan State, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team had the fates of two different streaks hanging in the balance.
The Badgers were riding a seven-game win streak — the longest active streak in the Big Ten — and were seen as one of the hottest teams in the country.
Conversely, the Badgers were also riding a losing streak, one reaching all the way back to 2004, as the team had not walked out of the Breslin Center in East Lansing with a win since that time.
Unfortunately for Wisconsin, history repeated itself Thursday.