@barryisthedon Or, we can just keep doing the same thing over and over and be satisfied with continued failure in March.
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UWOX95
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A Wisconsin Basketball Play in 3 Acts:
1. Mac listens to message board experts, fires Gard
2. Super trendy mid major guy with an impressive recent March run is brought in. Experts call it "A+ hire"
3. Badgers make NCAA Tourney one time in next three years w two losing seasons
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Wisconsin has gone eight straight completed seasons without a Sweet 16, losing to a double-digit seed four times in six NCAAT appearances. (Oregon, Iowa St, JMU, High Point)
The Badgers had six Sweet 16s in the previous eight years, including two Final Fours.
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@TheRealRedShed @ChrisVannini Yep. It happens every single year. Oh well.
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@wpscmsn @ChrisVannini A random bench player caught fire down the stretch of a tight March Madness game. It happens.
I’m not going to entertain Luke Fickell’ing the basketball program in an emotional reaction. You do you.
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@TheRealRedShed @ChrisVannini OK. You are unable or unwilling to have a serious conversation about this topic.
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@wpscmsn @ChrisVannini Wisconsin has regressed to the mean. Blow the whole thing up. What could go wrong.
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@wpscmsn Can’t get worse, might as well get CMac to do his thing
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There are a lot of college hoops fans who only care about March Madness.
If you’re that guy, I completely understand why you’d want to fire Greg Gard into the Sun.
Zach Hanley@ZachHanley2
Don't want to hear how many ranked wins Wisconsin had in the regular season... WIN IN THE TOURNAMENT! 2026: 1st Round Exit 2025: 2nd Round Exit 2024: 1st Round Exit 2023: Missed tourney 2022: 2nd Round Exit 2021: 2nd Round Exit 2019: 1st Round Exit 2018: Missed tourney
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@TheRealRedShed I don’t know, but I think the grass is kinda stale (if that’s a thing) right now. Every season is basically the same. A few impressive wins, a few inexplicable losses and a flame out in March.
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@wpscmsn And you think the grass is greener. A lot of dudes do.
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@TheRealRedShed The program in place to do what? The current Coach clearly has a March problem. Plenty of data.
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@wpscmsn And you believe CMac has the program in place, the coach is the problem, right?
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@wpscmsn Statues are built for March success.
Firings happen because of the regular season.
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Don’t let them 83-82 score fool you, the Badgers played bad and got beat far worse than the score shows
Out coached and outplayed all 3 times
College Basketball Report@CBKReport
Greg Gard against 12 Seeds in March Madness: 2026 - L vs #12 High Point 82-83 2024 - L vs #12 JMU 61-72 2019 - L vs #12 Oregon 54-72 0-3.
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@TheRealRedShed @stauner42 At some point, you need to stop defending this. Might as well decline bids from now on.
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Any Wisconsin Basketball fan who says they weren't emotionally prepared for that outcome is lying to you or themselves
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It’s now a pattern. I don’t take Gard for granted but I’m not sure what else to say about his March success.
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No Excuses... The Badgers couldn't finish with the guy that's finished all season, Nick Boyd.
All the credit in the world to High Point... #Damn
What a crushing loss... and it's it's a credit to the players and coaches for High Point.
For the Badgers... crushing and hard to take
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@ZachHeilprin Embarrassing, pathetic, unacceptable. Blew an 8 point lead under 5 to go. Another first round L. When is enough enough…
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#Badgers headed home. They fall 83-82 to High Point.
Nick Boyd: 27 pts, 5 rebs, 6 asts
John Blackwell: 22 pts, 10 rebs
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Wtf did Gard talk about at half?
How do you come out and look worse to start the second half
Get it together dude
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Getting out rebounded by a team with no one over 6’8 is just malpractice
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