Marquette's Matt Heldt guards the paint against a potential entry pass from Wisconsin's Charles Thomas, IV.
When Bo Ryan took over the basketball program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001, he instituted a tactic known as the swing offense. Gradually, it became synonymous with Wisconsin basketball.
What is the swing offense?
Ryan is credited not only for popularizing the swing offense, but developing it himself.
The swing is a continuous sequence of off-ball screens and ball movement that attempts to break down a defense. It gets its name when the ball will be “swung,” or passed, from one side of the court to the other on any given possession.