The Badgers pulled a seven seed in the East Region of the tournament. If you go by Ken Pomeroy’s rankings, the Wisconsin basketball team is truly an eight seed.
If you compare all the seeds to what they “should” be according to Pomeroy (and I have done that for you, dear reader), you see that teams are over-seeded by slightly over one rank, on average, so the Badgers are right where they should be by this measure.
Wisconsin never ranked better than a seven seed by Pomeroy, so the loss to Nebraska doesn’t seem to have hurt them that much.