No need to apologize; you aren't bursting anyone's bubble. When you make a claim like that, I'm sure people would love you to name the five ACC and Big 12 teams better than Wisconsin. Wisconsin has won its last four games against the ACC. They weren't just home games. In fact, only one was. Maryland neutral site, Florida State neutral site (NCAA tournament for that matter), Virginia at Virginia. They only home win was over Duke, the ACC's best team. Neutral site, the only ACC team I wouldn't feel confident against is Duke. Big 12? The only clear-cut superior team is Kansas. UW has played Texas extremely evenly the last couple years. Missouri is good, but clearly better than Wisconsin? Nope. Same with K-State and Baylor, and the rest almost anyone would say are not as good as Wisconsin. I'm even having a hard time coming up with five better teams in the Big East. Syracuse, Villanova... Then who? West Virginia? Georgetown? Heck, Pomeroy has Marquette as the 5th best Big East team, and UW beat them. And Marquette won at Georgetown. And as for the lack of athleticism being a burden? Do you realize how many teams in just the last five years have been far superior to UW athletically and still gotten waxed? My favorite example is Michael Beasley's Kansas State team that was never even in the game, but there are plenty of others. And for the record, I'd stack the top four Big Ten teams up against the top four of any conference and wouldn't feel overmatched at all.