Bo Ryan named a finalist for Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
Former Wisconsin men's basketball head coach Bo Ryan named a finalist for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2024
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MADISON, Wis. — Former Wisconsin men's basketball head coach Bo Ryan has been named one of 14 finalists for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2024, as announced on the Hall of Fame's live show on NBA TV Friday afternoon. As a North American Committee Finalist, Ryan will have his legendary resume put to the test and reviewed by the Hall of Fame's Honors Committee.

The winningest coach in Wisconsin history with a record of 364-130 (.737), Ryan led the Badgers to seven Big Ten championships. Ryan guided UW to 14 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, including seven Sweet 16s, three Elite Eights, back-to-back Final Fours and the 2015 national championship game. Ryan received four Big Ten Coach of the Year honors.

The 34th NCAA coach to reach the 700-win plateau, Ryan also coached at UW-Milwaukee (1999-2000) and UW-Platteville (1984-1999), where his team won four NCAA Division III championships (1991, 1995, 1998, 1999). Ryan is a member of eight halls of fames, including his 2017 induction into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Earlier this year, Ryan was inducted into the Madison Sports Hall of Fame Club.

The North American Honors Committee includes 24 voting members, consisting of Hall of Famers, basketball executives and administrators, members of the media, and other experts in the game of basketball. A Finalist must garner a minimum of 18 votes from the respective Honors Committee to be Enshrined in the BHOF.

The entire Class of 2024 will be unveiled during the NCAA Final Four in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday, April 6, in a nationally televised broadcast that will be announced at a later date.

BO RYAN
Bo Ryan spent 32 seasons as a collegiate head coach before retiring in December of 2015. He finished his career 26th on the NCAA's all-time wins list with a record of 747-233 (.762), including a mark of 364-130 (.737) in 14-plus seasons at Wisconsin. Author of the most wins in UW annals and the best winning percentage in Big Ten history, Ryan led the Badgers to seven Big Ten titles, back-to-back Final Fours in 2014 and 2015 and an appearance in the national championship game.

A native of Chester, Pennsylvania, Ryan was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year four times (2002, 2003, 2013, 2015) while coaching at Wisconsin. Prior to his time in Madison, he coached at UW-Milwaukee (1999-2000) and UW-Platteville (1984-1999), where his team won four NCAA Division III Championships (1991, 1995, 1998, 1999). Ryan led Wisconsin to four Big Ten regular season championships (2002, 2003, 2008, 2015), three Big Ten Tournament championships (2004, 2008, 2015), and the NCAA Final Four twice (2014, 2015). Ryan is a recipient of the Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award (2007), NABC Outstanding Service Award (2009) and Coaches vs. Cancer Champion Award (2013).

It was during his 15-year tenure at UW-Platteville that Ryan firmly established himself as one of the nation's top coaches. Ryan guided the Division III program to a phenomenal 353-76 (.822) overall record. In his final 12 seasons, the Pioneers won four national championships (1991, '95, '98, '99), were the winningest NCAA men's basketball team of the 1990s (all divisions) with a 266-26 (.908) record, won eight WIAC titles, compiled a 30-5 NCAA Division III tournament mark, and never won fewer than 23 games.

Before coming to Wisconsin, Ryan coached for two seasons at UW-Milwaukee. There, he coached the Panthers to their first back-to-back winning seasons in eight years. UWM also experienced a 161-percent home attendance increase in his first season.

Ryan's coaching career began in the fall of 1972 at Brookhaven High School in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, where he was hired as a history teacher and head basketball coach. After just one year at Brookhaven, Ryan began his collegiate coaching career in 1973 at Dominican College of Racine (Wisconsin) as an assistant under Bill Cofield.

Storr is going to get his 15-30 every game. Crowl and Wahl are both 5-20 point guys any game. Crowl adds the rebounding and assists, where Wahl adds the grit, determination, and "want to". Max has been amazing at time but sometimes vanishes, mainly due to foul trouble. Chucky has been, well, somewhat of a mystery this year. I get the fact that he's lost confidence in his shot, but after that late 3 against OSU, maybe he gets that back. With all that said, my MVP so far has been Blackwell. Now, hear me out....JB has been almost lights out on D! He's shooting 48% from 3. He's over 80% from the free throw line. How many times will we get a true freshman to produce like that (I do expect that Freitag will do that next year)? JMHO!

Why do you think that none of our BBall coaches haven't been poached? Krabby seems like a decent recruiter, is he not good at coaching players up? For me Chambliss and Oliver are "blah" type guys. By that I mean, we don't see much of a recruiting impact from either, and we're not privy to the impact that they make coaching. With the FB coaches departures, at least we know that they are highly regarded. As far as the BBall coaches go, there has been no known offers/interviews made to the best of our knowledge. Paris, Jeter, Bennett and Miller all went on to be head coaches, but they were all under Bo. Are Gard's assistants not attractive to other teams? Are they not highly thought of? Are they not good enough recruiters? The FB coaching changes just has me wondering

I thought there was a thread about this already but I couldn’t find it.

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Does the skid end tonight?

Is Blackwell going to play? I can't find anything anywhere. The last I heard McGee is still a bit away.

The stadium thread got derailed a little bit, but there is an interesting personal finance discussion in there that I thought deserves its own thread. I thought this question would be a good way to lead into that type of discussion.

I'll go first.

I haven't planned closely enough to say anything for sure, but I'd like to at least have the financial stability to have the option to "retire" at 55 or shortly there after. I'm a teacher in Wisconsin, so that's the magic pension number for me. My wife has a Roth through her work that conservatively projects to be at around $500k by that time, and I have a 403(b) account that projects to about a couple hundred thousand, not counting increased savings when the kids are out of the house and income is higher.

We live a pretty modest lifestyle in a very low cost of living area, so these numbers will provide us with a pretty decent level of comfort in retirement. I'll be 35 in a couple of weeks and have developed an interest in wealth building and investing over the past 9 months or so, so I may set the goals higher yet. We have a total household income of right around $90k right now.

Personally, I don't think that he's ready. A LOT to work on, on both ends! I think, right now, he's a mid 2nd rounder at best.

I'm not sold on Garlock but I hope I'm wrong. Hopefully Hannah and Fenderson are locks! Can we get Rodgers? Thoughts?