Bo Ryan hijacks Mark Turgeon press conference following loss

Bo Ryan steals podium from Mark Turgeon after Tuesday night loss.

Bo Ryan can boast of a lot. His Wisconsin Badgers have become a model program in the Big Ten under his leadership, such that Tuesday night’s loss at Maryland was considered a huge upset, even though Maryland entered the game at home as a top-15 program nationally.

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In his 13-plus seasons in Madison, Ryan has overseen a program—once in the shadows of Barry Alvarez’s football program—ascend to new heights. Entering this his 14^th season, Ryan owned a .721 win percentage (321-121 overall), .703 win percentage in Big Ten Conference play, .903 winning percentage at home in the Kohl Center and five Big Ten titles.

He also took the program last season to its first Final Four since 2000. And there’s a pretty manly personal story too, but we’ll get to that.

Tuesday night he provided one of the most unusual moments in college basketball postgame history. Using a viable excuse that his team’s plane was leaving quickly, Ryan walked up to the podium to begin his press conference as Maryland coach Mark Turgeon was still speaking.

Turgeon, understandably, was a bit taken aback, but relented the podium to his competitor. Ryan went on to conduct an ordinary postgame press conference, but the oddity of the moment was not lost on anyone.

This was not the first time Ryan stole something from another man, though he is not a criminal. He just knows what he wants, and gets what he wants, when he wants it. In what has to be one of the most incredible stories of “how I met your mother”, Ryan once saw a woman he was quite smitten by.

The problem, as it would be for most men, was that this woman—now his wife of 35 years and mother of their five children and six grandchildren—was already engaged. He didn’t care, he persuaded not to marry that man and marry him instead. The rest, as they say, is history.

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