
July 26, 2010 MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin fans are well aware of their Badgers' success on the gridiron and the hardwood. CBSSports.com has taken notice, too, and placed Wisconsin at No. 4 in its "Flourishing Five" series that highlights the programs most consistently fielding winners in football and men's basketball. In fact, when it comes to dual-sport success, only one team can match the Badgers' record over the past decade. Wisconsin and Texas are the only two programs in the nation to send their men's basketball teams to the NCAA tournament and their football squads to a bowl game in each of the last eight seasons. Senior writers Dennis Dodd and Gary Parrish feature the Badgers in a pair of stories plastered on the front page of CBSSports.com Monday. Dodd tackles the Badgers' success in football, offering up insights from senior quarterback Scott Tolzien and Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez. His piece focuses on how the Badgers have found sustained success by not shying away from the brand of football that Alvarez brought to Madison in the 1990s. This section of Dodd's piece, "Badgers' powerful football program built with power" begins with a quote from ...
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