Following a pair of wins last week over a top-10 Iowa team and Michigan, the Wisconsin basketball team is as close to the AP Poll than it’s been all season, coming in one spot off the poll at the unofficial No. 26 spot in the week 17 poll.
The Badgers, who haven’t been ranked since the preseason poll, have steadily crept their way back towards AP ranking. Wisconsin first started garnering votes in the poll when they were seven games into a win streak, and had made it as high as the unofficial No. 29 spot two weeks ago before dropping to the unofficial No.