If you would’ve told me back in November that the Badgers would have a fourth-place Big Ten finish and the corresponding double-bye in the conference tournament within their grasp on March 6, I would have been ecstatic. It has certainly been one roller coaster of a season for Wisconsin, but, in the end, that is exactly the kind of situation we find ourselves in at the moment.
The formula for the Badgers is simple: win their final two games of the regular season, and fourth place in this year’s loaded Big Ten is theirs. And what an achievement that would be for a squad looking for redemption after a disappointing 2017-18 season in which Wisconsin missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time in almost 20 years, and in what has arguably been the nation’s best conference this year.