And with that....

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

We can still make fun of Bucky for their most recent championship being in 1941. 

Now let's run them out of their gym next season and make the world right again

[Blackhat]

I'll take it baby!!

Great season though Wisconsin.   (I can be gracious if they lose  )

[statnik]

We can still make fun of Bucky for their most recent championship being in 1941. 

Now let's run them out of their gym next season and make the world right again

I hope you guys are happy that college basketball championships are only for the blue bloods anymore.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

I hope you guys are happy that college basketball championships are only for the blue bloods anymore.

Go back to your Madison fan den. DUKE NATION.

[Blackhat]

I hope you guys are happy that college basketball championships are only for the blue bloods anymore.

Yes.

[GooooMarquette]

All is well with the world.

[ChicosBailBonds]

I hope you guys are happy that college basketball championships are only for the blue bloods anymore.

I don't know what this even means.  Wisconsin was up 9'in the second half and two Blue Devils in serious foul trouble.  What more do you want?  They didn't capitalize.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I hope you guys are happy that college basketball championships are only for the blue bloods anymore.

I don't consider UConn a blue blood. And I didn't consider Louisville a blue blood until their most recent championship.

[Dawson Rental]

It's just really, really hard to win an NCAA tournament.  Something we all need to remember.

[Norm]

Yeah, cause we never saw Final Four runs by Butler, George Mason, VCU, Wichita State, etc. over the past decade.

[Warrior of Law]

Congrats to UW. They'll go down in history like Utah.  Great coach who's program declines shortly after the coach leaves.  MU will quickly regain the title as Wisconsin/Midwest's best team.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Congrats to UW. They'll go down in history like Utah.  Great coach who's program declines shortly after the coach leaves.  MU will quickly regain the title as Wisconsin/Midwest's best team.

I don't know if they decline a ton, next year could be tough if certain guys leave.  UW had a great run and were a great team.  Hats off to them.

[Mutaman]

Just a fart in the wind.

[Warrior of Law]

This was the best Badger team we'll ever see.  Can they rebuild and come back? I highly doubt it.  Kaminski had a once in a lifetime season, Dekker was awesome.  This was as good as it gets.

[MarquetteDano]

Congrats to UW. They'll go down in history like Utah.  Great coach who's program declines shortly after the coach leaves.  MU will quickly regain the title as Wisconsin/Midwest's best team.

Not sure I believe this at all.  Despite what Wisconsinites like to think (like they are little david among goliaths), it is a top 5 athletic budget program that outspends 98% of the programs out there.  And with its huge alumni support they will not fall too, too far.

[Mutaman]

Best post of the Wisconsin boards:

" Blatantly touched the finger."

[ChicosBailBonds]

This was the best Badger team we'll ever see.  Can they rebuild and come back? I highly doubt it.  Kaminski had a once in a lifetime season, Dekker was awesome.  This was as good as it gets.

Could be, but as we all know, sometimes the not so greatest team is the one that goes farther.  Was the '77 team Al's best?  Yet that's the only one of his to win the title.  You just never know.

[AlumKCof93]

Congrats to the badgers for a great season.  Liked the players and couldn't help but root for them tonight.  Now that it's over, Go Marquette!

[Norm]

And Bo blames the refs for not calling hand checks and body blows against his players...jeez, a whiner to the very end.

[Avenue Commons]

I don't know if they decline a ton, next year could be tough if certain guys leave.  UW had a great run and were a great team.  Hats off to them.

Great run. Thought they had Duke there late in the second half.

Kaminsky took Bucky to two straight Final 4s and was player of the year. He had an incredible college career.

[Avenue Commons]

This was the best Badger team we'll ever see.  Can they rebuild and come back? I highly doubt it.  Kaminski had a once in a lifetime season, Dekker was awesome.  This was as good as it gets.

Kaminsky is tough to not only replace in the short term, but in the history of a program.

Every year there's an Okafor, or Jabari, or Anthony Davis who is the highly touted big man who contributes right away. But to find an unheralded big man who develops in four years to become player of the year? That's really, really tough to find. Even harder than the elite big man.

[ecompt]

On the play they reviewed to determine possession, they ignored the two whacks across the arms of the Duke player. Giving Wisky the ball there would have been a travesty.

[Blackhat]

UW will still be tough.  He squeezes a lot out of guys like Koening, etc.   But I am loving tonight.   That was a damn good team Bo put together.

[Anti-Dentite]

We can still make fun of Bucky for their most recent championship being in 1941. 

Now let's run them out of their gym next season and make the world right again

Here! Here!

[ChicosBailBonds]

On the play they reviewed to determine possession, they ignored the two whacks across the arms of the Duke player. Giving Wisky the ball there would have been a travesty.

That's what I was telling my son.  It took the 5th or 6th replay to make it look like Duke even touched it, but wow it was a fingernail....but that would have been a foul any other time during the game.  He was clobbered by Koenig.