Wisconsin Basketball: Where do Badgers fall in best of Big Ten since 2010?

1.  University of Wisconsin, 2014-2015

If not for a total collapse during the last seven minutes of the National Championship game, songs would be sung about this Wisconsin team. Heck, they still are. Led by Frank “the Tank” Kaminsky, who swept all six National Player of the Year awards, Wisconsin just played beautiful basketball. This Bucky team was the most efficient offense in the history of Kenpom.com, a feat so disliked by the powers that be that the NCAA shortened the shot clock by five seconds the following year, seemingly in response.

Not a terribly deep team, especially when starting point guard Traevon Jackson was lost for much of the season, the major players on this squad played uber-minutes, and boy was it fun to watch.

Wisconsin won the Big Ten outright with a 16-2 record, won the Big Ten Tournament, earned a 1 seed, and survived and advanced through the toughest possible route to the National Championship: a No. 16, 8, 4, 2, and 1-seed. The No. 2-seed Wisconsin faced was a  loaded and vengeful Arizona team which most years would have been a No.1-seed (and probably should have been a one-seed that year).

The No. 1 seed Wisconsin faced in the Final Four was Kentucky, who at the time was 38-0, and who many were ready to call the greatest college basketball team of all time. No matter for these Badgers.

Ultimately, the basketball gods decided that Grayson Allen and Tyus Jones could not miss a shot in crunch time of the National Championship. Simultaneously, Sam Dekker’s incredible hot streak ran dry, and the Badgers suffered a devastating loss to Duke. But a bad seven minutes aside, this 36-4 offensive juggernaut that slayed Kentucky is the most dominant Big Ten Basketball team of the 2010 decade so far.