After much discussion, our panel unanimously came up with it's recommendations for the top ten players in Badger history.  If you think it was hard to come up with a unanimous recommendation, well, I was the only person on the panel.

First team

Theresa Huff
1979-83.  The first of the great Badgers.  A lithe, athletic 5'9 post player, she led the team to it's finest post-season ever, the quarterfinals of the national AIAW tournament.  She left school as it's leading scorer and rebounder with 1879 points and 1201 rebounds.  No one has come within 285 rebounds of her career total.  Terry played professionally in Spain after she left Wisconsin.

Lisa Bonnell
1984-88.   Her selection to the second team all-Big 10 team in 1988 made her the first Badger to be selected to that team.  In many ways, Lisa was the prototype for the Badger centers that followed her.  She wasn't an athletic player, but she was a big banger who got the most out of her talents.  She finished with 1482 points and 760 rebounds.

Robin Threatt
1988-93.  At her best, the best to ever wear a Badger uniform.  A chronically bad back, leg injuries, internal team chaos and some occasionally tentative play on her part kept her from playing at her best often.  At 5'7 she could dunk a volleyball.  She had the speed and quickness to dominate defensively.  But it was offensively that she was really special.  When she had the ball in her hands, she could hit a jumper out to 22 feet or simply explode to the basket.  She left as the all-time leading scorer with 1901 points.  If Robin was five years younger and healthy, a lot more people would know about her.

Barb Franke
1991-95.  The most popular player to wear a Wisconsin uniform.  She was the player who led the turn-around of the Badger program.  Her personality, both on and off the court, was one of the reasons for the growth in popularity of the team.  On the court, she left with every major scoring record, with 1994 career points, 601 points in a season and 38 in a game.

Keisha Anderson
1994-97.  Keisha only played three seasons at Wisconsin but set career records in assists and steals.  Her athleticism at point made her one of the key players in the early years of Jane Albright-Dieterle's tenure and she carried the team her senior year after a knee injury sidelined Katie Voigt.
 

Second Team

Linda Gough
1977-81.  The first woman to earn an athletic scholarship in basketball at Wisconsin.  She was also the first thousand point scorer in the women's program.  One of the real pioneers of the program.

Janet Huff
1980-84.  Theresa's little sister, Janet was the point guard who got big sis the ball so she could score some of her 1879 points.  Janet also found time to score 1455 points of her own.  She held the school record for assists (411) and steals (323) until Keisha Anderson came along and broke her marks.

Faith Johnson
1980-85.  The third member of the successful Badger teams of the early 80's to be named to the all-time team.  Faith scored 1120 points and handed out 360 assists in her career.  She continues to be a valuable contributor to the Badger cause, as one of the players she coached in high school, Tamara Moore, is a key player on the current Badgers.

Michele Kozelka
1988-92.  A walk-on who had to talk her way into a try-out Kozelka became a four year starter at post and one of the most underrated players in school history.  She did nothing spectacular, but she was a fundamentally sound player who did everything right.  She finished with 1428 points and is second in school history with 916 rebounds.

Katie Voigt
1993-98.  Another fan favorite, Voigt is the daughter of former Badger men's player Ted Voigt.  She came to Wisconsin as a point guard, a position she really wasn't suited for, but she played it off and on over her four years at the school.  She ended up in third place on the all-time assist list with 373.  But mainly Katie was a scorer.  In addition to holding the career record for three point shots attempted and made, Voigt finished fourth in all-time scoring with 1576 points.
 

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