The Wisconsin Badgers were slow last year. Not by design, but more out of necessity.
“We didn’t have the fastest group last year,” UW head coach Marisa Moseley told me during our interview a few weeks ago. Moseley didn’t say this with any sort of scorn, it was just a statement of fact. She took a team, in her first year at the helm, and adjusted her system and playing style around the talent that was there.
“If we have any opportunity to get out [and run] I wanted them to,” Moseley mentioned. Playing at a slower pace than almost any other team in the country, and Wisconsin’s slowest pace as a team in the last decade, wasn’t Moseley’s ideal offense, but it was one that kept the team in games and allowed them to even win some.