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Badger fans, send your angry letters to Robert Weintraub
Every year, Slate.com has a group of writers expound on the teams they hate in the NCAA Tournament
Now I understand Wisconsin doesn’t run and gun like UNLV of 1977, dunk like Phi Slamma Jamma, Houston of 1983, or spin the basketball on their fingers like the Harlem Globetrotters. But what did this clean-cut, blue-collar, hard-nosed, disciplined bunch do to generate hate?
Robert Weintraub, a freelance TV producer and writer says this about our beloved Badgers:
Everyone bags on Big Ten football, and appropriately so, but the Midwestern brand of pigskin is easy on the eyes compared with Big Ten hoops: a raft of mediocre teams, plenty of flow-restricting physicality, and, all-too-often, Brent Musberger, looking live from Champaign or Iowa City. The most painful Big Ten team to endure is the Badgers, a team that combines brutishness and blandness into an unwatchable goulash.
I blame Bo Ryan, the coach who has created a top program in Madison by installing all manner of defensive tactics while forgetting the game is supposed to be entertainment. To use a soccer analogy, the Badgers always appear to be playing for a draw but manage to get enough muscled-in offensive rebounds from the likes of Brian Butch to get past the league's weak competition. Wisconsin will muck along in the tournament until it runs into a team that knows how to execute a crossover dribble. Until then, I'll be singing my own version of the Badgers' fight song every time they clog up my TV: "Off, Wisconsin!"—Robert Weintraub
Here’s the entire list of teams that drew disdain from the writers at Slate.
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