Greg Gard and the Wisconsin basketball program (16-8; 8-5) are past the midway point of Big Ten play, with only seven games remaining in the regular season. To this point, things were going better than expected, at least up until the calendar flipped to February.
Since the February slate began, the Wisconsin Badgers have lost four consecutive games for the first time since 2017-18. Those losses have come through uneven defensive performances, poor ball security, and an inability to connect from beyond the arc.
Joe Lunardi currently projects the Badgers as a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament because of their early resume-building wins.