Taylor takes home top honor (Rivals.com)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:53:00 PDT

Wisconsin Badger signee Jordan Taylor was named Mr. Basketball in the state of Minnesota at a banquet Sunday...

Wisconsin Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:44:45 PDT

Forget for a moment that Wisconsin's season ended with a 17-point loss to Davidson in the Sweet Sixteen.

If anyone would have suggested the Badgers would win 31 games this year—one more than last year—and go one round further in the NCAA Tournament than last year's Alando Tucker-led crew, they would have been diagnosed as having overdosed on the Badger Kool-Aid.

But Wisconsin regrouped from the loss of three starters, including its top two scorers, and became perhaps the most overachieving big-name school in the nation. The Badgers captured their first Big Ten regular-season title since 2003 and their first postseason tournament crown since 2004.

Wisconsin's consistent excellence was surprising as it needed to find replacements for Tucker, an...