As end arrives for senior class, a look back at their four years
By Ben Breiner | May. 7, 2009Columnist Ben Breiner reflects on the past four years of Wisconsin sports
Columnist Ben Breiner reflects on the past four years of Wisconsin sports
The Wisconsin men's basketball team did not enter its season with particularly high expectations, but under the direction of head coach Bo Ryan, the team proved it was a major threat to teams across the nation. Despite a slow start and the possibility of missing the NCAA Tournament, men's basketball finished strong with solid victories to qualify for postseason play. And men's basketball highlighted its season in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, beating No. 5 seeded Florida State, a team which was only a week removed from winning against eventual National Champion North Carolina.
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The numbers say it all: a third national championship in four years, just two losses in the entire season, four team members (and their head coach) selected for the U.S. national hockey team and a Patty Kazmaier Award for Wisconsin senior goaltender Jessie Vetter.
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Due to her spectacular season culminating in a national championship, Jessie Vetter is our female athlete of the year
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There's a somewhat famous speech from Newton Minow in 1961 that declared television a ""vast wasteland."" At times it's a hard point to argue—they thought it was bad in 1961, before ""Survivor"" opened the door to reality television. Today's programming probably makes ""Gilligan's Island"" look like ""Masterpiece Theatre."" But let's withhold all of our judgments about MTV, TLC and other dumb, peripheral processing shows for a second and consider the fact that TV may be the greatest art form we have.
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