The Wisconsin Badgers are having a great season in regards to where many thought they would be at this point. They are 19-5 overall and 9-4 in the Big Ten (T- 4th place). They also have one of the best resumes in all of college basketball, and even the pundits are saying it. They are considered a lock by almost all major bracketologists and have climbed up into the 3-seed line for many of those same thinkers. T3 Bracketology has now put them as No. 9 in tournament resumes.
Top 25 Resumes in CBB - 2/11/25
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Done with math, resume metric average the committee uses, emphasized for selection (KPI + SOR + WAB)/3. Math, not opinion.
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Wisconsin listed as the 9th best March Madness resume
According to this bracketologist, they are the second-best resume in the Big Ten, only following Purdue (who they will play this weekend). Both teams are 19-5, but Purdue is sitting in first place in the Big Ten with an 11-2 conference record.
What makes Wisconsin's resume so great?
Wisconsin doesn't have any bad losses. While they have 5 losses all of those losses come from the top 25 in the NET ranking. All five losses are considered a quad-1 loss and none are even close to slipping to a quad-2. This means they are undefeated in quads 2-4 which is something not many teams can say. Only 14 teams have zero quad 2-4 losses.
They also have seven quad-1 wins, which is also very few teams can boast. There are only nine such teams that have at least seven quad-1 wins. Of those nine teams only seven of them have no quad 2-4 losses.
That's a lot of numbers to unpack but it all dials down to the fact that the Badgers have an elite tournament resume. The only complaint that makes it so they aren't ranked even higher in this list and other rankings is that the Badgers only have one super impressive win. While they have seven quad-1 wins, they have only taken down one top-10 team in the NET, Arizona.
Wisconsin will have another opportunity this Saturday as they take on a top 10 ranked team in Purdue both in the NET and the AP Poll.