Their accomplishments (the 1996-97 Wisconsin Badgers basketball team), going 18-10 and making it to the NCAA tournament, were even more impressive when put into historical perspective. With their eighteen regular-season victories, they equalled the total of the 1915-16 squad, the only other team to achieve that many wins in nearly one hundred years of basketball at Wisconsin. In addition, the eleven conference victories were the highest total since the 1941 national championship season.
(from A Season with Coach Dick Bennett, by Eric Ferris)
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