Wojos biggest wins?

[tower912]

Wojo's biggest win?   The powerpoint. 

[Floorslapper]

I agree to a point. With Wojo, we've avoided losing to bad teams TOO frequently. We've shown the ability to knock of good teams. But the one thing we've continuously failed to do is build off of big wins. We earned 2 big wins in our last 3 games. We have the opportunity for 2 more in Wisconsin and Buffalo at home. There is an opportunity to win out in the non-conference and if we can do that it will truly feel like we are back.

I agree with this analysis.  Tip of the cap to Herman Cain.  (This is the crux issue of the Wojo regime thus far - building on good wins.  Doing so will provide some evidence that we are legitimately turning a corner.)

[bilsu]

What if our lads beat F%cky but then go 7-11 in the conference? Will that win have gotten MU over the hump?

What if our boys lose to F%cky but then go 15-3 in the conference, win the BET and go to the Elite Eight? Will that loss have kept us from getting to the next level?

I hope we win. I really, really, really hope we win, and I think we will. But I won't be joining guru and a few others on the ledge if we lose.

In my way of thinking it does, because I am looking at 2020 recruiting. There are several excellent players in Wisconsin and both MU and UW have a lot of open scholarships. I believe winning this game is important as far as in state recruiting.

[wadesworld]

In my way of thinking it does, because I am looking at 2020 recruiting. There are several excellent players in Wisconsin and both MU and UW have a lot of open scholarships. I believe winning this game is important as far as in state recruiting.

I do not.

[NWarsh]

In my way of thinking it does, because I am looking at 2020 recruiting. There are several excellent players in Wisconsin and both MU and UW have a lot of open scholarships. I believe winning this game is important as far as in state recruiting.

The result of individual games are not going to determine where they go.  They will go where they feel most comfortable, and they believe gives them the best shot to take their game to the next level.  Along with many other factors but those are the two biggest for most people

[4everwarriors]

I doubt very much if even the most ardent Badger fan, this could be you Andy North, gives much of a chit about beating MU as opposed to beating a conference rival. For some odd reason, Joe Marquette fan has this us vs them mentality with regards to UW, whether its on the court or in the classroom.
For those keeping score at home, we are not them, and they are not us.

[Goose]

4ever

I cannot believe that anyone believes we are a big time rival to the Badgers. We get mocked for Al comparisons, but at least we know a rival when we see one. It has been a long time since a Badger fan has had MU game circled on the schedule.

[GGGG]

We are one of UWs bigger rivals. Most UW fans know this. Their "biggest?" No. But don't think it's just another game for them.

[cheebs09]

We are one of UWs bigger rivals. Most UW fans know this. Their "biggest?" No. But don't think it's just another game for them.

My Facebook and Twitter feed would back this up. I don't know if I see another team that fires them up as much as MU. Michigan State was a big one. Iowa too.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

4ever

I cannot believe that anyone believes we are a big time rival to the Badgers. We get mocked for Al comparisons, but at least we know a rival when we see one. It has been a long time since a Badger fan has had MU game circled on the schedule.

Personally, I have found whenever a fan base goes out of their way to say an opponent isn't a rival...that means there is a pretty strong rivalry. If it wasn't a rivalry you wouldn't feel the need to say anything eh?

Last season when Bucky was down,  their forum had a thread going with several hundred posts entitled something like "Top 10 reasons why Marquette sucks". Wobder why we were on their mind?

[wadesworld]

Yeah.  The only people that think UW fans don't consider MU a rival are the chicken little MU fans.  There's no question whatsoever that UW fans consider MU a rival.

[MUfan12]

This sh*t again?

[Goose]

TAMU

My comment is based off being around this rivalry for the better part of fifty years. Over the past couple of decades, UW fan base has become more and more arrogant with their athletic success and academic success. When their football team was a joke and their basketball program was equally poor, beating MU was their chance of having anything to brag about. They are a football school that has an accomplished basketball program. No doubt they want to beat MU, but the hate is far less than years past.

One side bar, I do believe that last year Rowsey got the attention of the Badger faithful. Rowsey was the exact kind of guy almost MU fan would have hated if he had been a Badger.

[GGGG]

TAMU

My comment is based off being around this rivalry for the better part of fifty years. Over the past couple of decades, UW fan base has become more and more arrogant with their athletic success and academic success. When their football team was a joke and their basketball program was equally poor, beating MU was their chance of having anything to brag about. They are a football school that has an accomplished basketball program. No doubt they want to beat MU, but the hate is far less than years past.

One side bar, I do believe that last year Rowsey got the attention of the Badger faithful. Rowsey was the exact kind of guy almost MU fan would have hated if he had been a Badger.

Well yeah.  That's kind of the nature of rivalries.  When one program is doing better, the other one wants to knock them off their pedestal.  But that doesn't mean the rivalry doesn't exist.  (Which I know you didn't say.)

[Goose]

Sultan

It has more to do with the overall culture at UW, than the basketball success. Over the past two plus decades UW has approved academically and in athletics. I do not think the rivalry has diminished because of their basketball success, but more due to an overall arrogance.

[Galway Eagle]

New top 3?

1 Nova

2 UW

3 KState

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

My pick for top 10 wins of the Wojo era:

10. Year 3 vs Vanderbilt (24 point blowout against eventual NCAA tournament team in Armed Forces Classic)
9. Year 2 beating Ben Simmons' LSU for the 2K Championship
8. Year 2 at Wisconsin (Bo Ryan's last game against MU)
7. Year 5 vs #12 Kansas State
6. Year 4 vs #13 Seton Hall (20 point coast to coast blowout)
5. Year 2 at #8 Providence
4. Year 3 at #7 Creighton (scored 102)
3. Year 5 vs #12 Wisconsin
2. Year 4 at Wisconsin (biggest blowout in rivalry history)
1. Year 3 vs #1 Villanova

Good, not great list. Hope to add a lot more this season

Updated. I still think the biggest blowout in the history of the rivalry is a bigger win then yesterday but it's close. Glad we've added two to the list in the last week. Hope that trend continues

[fjm]

Yesterday jumps into the top 5.

As much as I loved the blow out last year, yesterday was the best UW-MU game I've been too. Back and forth. Kept everyone on the edge of their seats.

[WarriorDad]

4ever

I cannot believe that anyone believes we are a big time rival to the Badgers. We get mocked for Al comparisons, but at least we know a rival when we see one. It has been a long time since a Badger fan has had MU game circled on the schedule.

According to Evan Flood's online poll about basketball rivalries for UW on Twitter, Marquette is the biggest rival in basketball, followed by Michigan State.  2200 votes.  Not iron clad, but a data point. 



https://twitter.com/Evan_Flood/status/1071509256267018240

[tower912]

The next one. 

[brewcity77]

According to Evan Flood's online poll about basketball rivalries for UW on Twitter, Marquette is the biggest rival in basketball, followed by Michigan State.  2200 votes.  Not iron clad, but a data point. 



https://twitter.com/Evan_Flood/status/1071509256267018240

I think mentioning Michigan State is funny. Does MSU see Wisconsin as one of their main rivals? I'd imagine Michigan, Ohio State, & Indiana are all ahead of them.

[Daniel]

A nice list if wins.... but this win yesterday is more meaningful to our season, following the KS win, than some of the other one-off wins that did not get us in tourney much.  Yesterday's win is a big deal for our season... Go Marquette and keep being Warriors!

[The Lens]

I think Wisconsin '18 is the biggest for a number of reasons:

1) inaugural season of the Forum added some juice

2) they were 12th and we're coming off the win over K State

3) context: he's now won 3 of 4 from UW

This win seems to signal that we're back, we're legit and we have a first class facility that is an amazing venue for big time games. 

[fjm]

I think it's also big that we have strung together 3 very solid wins (UL, KSU, Badgers).
Last year and the year before we would get a big win or maybe two and follow it up with 3 lame duck losses in a row.

[Herman Cain]

I doubt very much if even the most ardent Badger fan, this could be you Andy North, gives much of a chit about beating MU as opposed to beating a conference rival. For some odd reason, Joe Marquette fan has this us vs them mentality with regards to UW, whether its on the court or in the classroom.
For those keeping score at home, we are not them, and they are not us.

TAMU

My comment is based off being around this rivalry for the better part of fifty years. Over the past couple of decades, UW fan base has become more and more arrogant with their athletic success and academic success. When their football team was a joke and their basketball program was equally poor, beating MU was their chance of having anything to brag about. They are a football school that has an accomplished basketball program. No doubt they want to beat MU, but the hate is far less than years past.

One side bar, I do believe that last year Rowsey got the attention of the Badger faithful. Rowsey was the exact kind of guy almost MU fan would have hated if he had been a Badger.

I would like to amplify these two comments, having been around this rivalry for around 50 years as well. UW has no natural football rivals. They do have "big " games. Big in the sense they are against a  well known rival (Michigan, MSU, OSU etc) and the game is at home. Those opponents do not look at UW football the same way though, rather just as another tough conference opponent. The same  circumstance holds true for UW basketball. So the emphasis in their school is on these "big" games.

However, MU is an instate high major and in fact the game with MU is a "rivalry game" even if the two schools are not necessarily rivals . For many years we played them twice a year. While it is not presently  a game they circle on the calendar and really look forward to, it does have some bragging rights attached to it and it is important to instate recruiting. That is the nature of relative positioning of the two schools competitively.

For example, In MU's glory days the UW game was an afterthought, beating Notre Dame and DePaul mattered more. However, it was a big deal for UW back in the days of Wes Matthews the elder ,when they beat MU. In part it led to some of their renaissance as a program .  MU went through its period of years in the desert in which UW dominated. Since Crean Buzz and now through Wojo its relatively even. However, for the most part during this period UW has been the bigger player on the national stage. 

When MU becomes a consistent player on the national scene again, this  in state rivalry game will take on great importance to the UW side especially if UW  program takes a turn down. That is part of the natural ebb and flow.