The Badger Herald · Mar 7, 2016
Stand Gard: Badgers have found their leader
Greg Gard will be named head coach of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team — there is no way around it. No more interim label, no more audition and no more need for endorsements from coach’s around the country.
After 23 years as a college assistant, Gard has been awarded the job after the work he’s done with the Badgers this season.
After coaching one of the most unlikely turnarounds college basketball has ever seen, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are preparing to offer …
Gard entered his time as interim head coach with the mindset that it wasn’t going to be about him. Despite those on the outside describing the second-half of the season as an audition, Gard insisted it was not.