1976–77 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team

1976–77 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball
1976–77 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Record	11–16 (7–11 Big Ten)
Head coach	Bill Cofield (1st season);
Home arena	UW Fieldhouse
	Seasons ← 1975–76 1977–78 →

The 1976–77 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Bill Cofield, coaching in his first season after replacing John Powless.^[1] The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.

ConferenceBig Ten Conference

Record11–16 (7–11 Big Ten)

Headcoach

Bill Cofield (1st season)

HomearenaUW Fieldhouse

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1976–77 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf.				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 1 Michigan	16	–	2	.889	26	–	4	.867
Purdue	14	–	4	.778	20	–	8	.714
Iowa	12	–	6	.667	20	–	7	.741
Indiana	11	–	7	.611	16	–	11	.593
Michigan State	9	–	9	.500	12	–	15	.444
Illinois	8	–	10	.444	16	–	14	.533
Wisconsin	7	–	11	.389	11	–	16	.407
Northwestern	7	–	11	.389	9	–	18	.333
Ohio State	6	–	12	.333	11	–	16	.407
No. 13 Minnesota*	0	–	18	.000	0	–	27	.000

Rankings from AP Poll *Minnesota forfeited all games due to NCAA sanctions. Disputed record (15–3, 24–3)

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Date time, TV	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site city, state
November 27, 1976*	at No. 6 Kentucky	L 64–72	0–1	Rupp Arena Lexington, KY
December 2, 1976*	Saint Mary's	W 82–76	1–1	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
December 6, 1976*	No. 19 DePaul	W 68–66	2–1	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
December 11, 1976*	at Stanford	L 66–70	2–2	Maples Pavilion Stanford, CA
December 13, 1976*	at Northern Illinois	L 57–81	2–3	Chick Evans Field House DeKalb, IL
December 15, 1976*	Loyola	W 71–68	3–3	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
December 27, 1976*	vs. Boston College Milwaukee Classic	W 74–66	4–3	MECCA Arena Milwaukee, WI
December 28, 1976*	at No. 12 Marquette Milwaukee Classic / Rivalry	L 57–64	4–4	MECCA Arena (10,938) Milwaukee, WI
January 6, 1977	at Michigan State	L 61–84	4–5 (0–1)	Jenison Fieldhouse East Lansing, MI
January 8, 1977	at No. 5 Michigan	L 63–66	4–6 (0–2)	Crisler Arena Ann Arbor, MI
January 13, 1977	Ohio State	L 58–60	4–7 (0–3)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
January 15, 1977	Indiana	L 64–79	4–8 (0–4)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
January 15, 1977	Northwestern	W 61–60	5–8 (1–4)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
January 22, 1977	at No. 11 Minnesota	L 64–82^	6–8 (2–4)	Williams Arena Minneapolis, MN
January 22, 1977	at No. 18 Purdue	L 71–81	6–9 (2–5)	Mackey Arena West Lafayette, IN
January 27, 1977	No. 2 Michigan	L 64–69	6–10 (2–6)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
January 29, 1977	Michigan State	W 87–83 ^3OT	7–10 (3–6)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
February 3, 1977	at Illinois	L 72–82	7–11 (3–7)	Assembly Hall Champaign, IL
February 5, 1977	at Iowa	L 73–90	7–12 (3–8)	Iowa Field House Iowa City, IA
February 10, 1977	Purdue	W 76–74	8–12 (4–8)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
February 12, 1977	Illinois	W 62–50	9–12 (5–8)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
February 19, 1977	at Northwestern	L 88–98	9–13 (5–9)	McGaw Memorial Hall Evanston, IL
February 21, 1977*	No. 18 Marquette Rivalry	L 58–73	9–14	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
February 24, 1977	at Indiana	W 66–64	10–14 (6–9)	Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall Bloomington, IN
February 26, 1977	at Ohio State	L 80–92 ^OT	10–15 (6–10)	St. John Arena Columbus, OH
March 2, 1977*	No. 9 Minnesota	L 61–64^	11–15 (7–10)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
March 5, 1977*	No. 9 Iowa	L 93–94 ^2OT	11–16 (7–11)	UW Fieldhouse Madison, WI
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Central Time.

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