The 2002–03 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented

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as a member of the

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during the

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. The head coach was Bo Ryan, coaching his second season with the Badgers. The team played its home games at the Kohl Center in

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. Wisconsin finished 24-8, 12-4 in Big Ten play to finish as outright regular season champions for the first time since 1947. In the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament in

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, top-seeded Wisconsin was upset by

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. The Badgers received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the fifth seed in the Midwest Region, where they won twice in Spokane, then lost to No. 1 seed

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by six points in the Sweet Sixteen at

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Roster

Schedule

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References

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