Wisconsin has had six Badgers win national player of the year awards, most recently with Johnny Davis winning Lute Olson National Player of the Year in 2021-22. Frank Kaminsky was consensus national player of the year in 2014-15 after leading Wisconsin to its second-straight Final Four appearance and national runner-up finish.
- 2022 Lute Olson National Player of the Year, and consensus First-Team All-American
- 2022 Naismith Trophy finalist and Wooden Award All-American
- 2022 Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year
- 2022 Big Ten Player of the Year and First-Team All-Big Ten honoree
- 2021 Maui Jim Maui Invitational Tournament MVP
- Led Wisconsin to a share of the 2021-22 Big Ten regular season championship
- Averaged 20.0 points per game during the regular season, becoming the first Badger to do so since Michael Finley averaged 20.5 ppg in 1994-95
- Became the first Badger to score 20+ points in six straight games since Alando Tucker in 2007
- Scored 37 points in a win at No. 3 Purdue, the third-highest total in a road game in school history and the most points by a Badger since Frank Kaminsky scored a school record 43 points vs. North Dakota in 2013
- Consensus National Player of the Year, winning the Wooden Award, the Naismith Trophy, the Oscar Robertson Trophy and was also named National Player of the Year by the Associated Press, Sporting News and USA Today, while garnering consensus first-team All-America honors
- 2015 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award winner (Center of the Year)
- The only player in NCAA Division I history to average at least 17.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.5 blocks per game
- Led Wisconsin to back-to-back Final Four appearances in 2014 and 2015, including the program's first national championship game appearance since 1941
- Just the second player in UW history to post 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 100 blocks
- Set the school's career blocks record (153); his 66 blocks in 2013-14 tied for third-best single-season mark in UW history
- Ranks 11th on UW's all-time scoring list (1,458)
- The school's first basketball All-American, earning honors as a senior in 1905. During the 18-game 1905 season, Steinmetz averaged 25.7 points per game on a team that averaged 37.8 points per game
- Member of the Badgers' track and basketball teams from 1903 to 1905. Despite his modest size at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 137 pounds (62 kg), he became one of the greatest scorers in basketball history.
- He was college basketball's leading scorer in the game's first 25 years from 1895 to 1920
- Set the UW single-season scoring record (462 points) in 1905, despite playing just one home game
- Credited with scoring 50 points against Co. G, Sparta (a 75-10 UW win) in his senior year
- Known as "The Father of Wisconsin basketball" in later years he is a member of the National Basketball Hall of Fame (1961) and the Wisconsin State Athletic Hall of Fame (1958)
- 1905 inaugural Helms Foundation National Player of the Year (Helms Foundation was the U.S. authority on basketball 1905-1960s)
- Member of the 1912 men's basketball team that was 15-0 overall and was named Helms Athletic Foundation national champions.
- NCAA basketball All-American 1911-12
- Played on the Big Ten co-championship men's basketball team in 1912 that won all 12 of its league games
- Topped the Big Ten in scoring (177 points) in 1912, a mark that stood for eight years
- Scored 13 field goals in a 38-12 win at Iowa in 1912
- 1912 Helms Foundation National Player of the Year (Helms Foundation was the U.S. authority on basketball 1905-1960s)
- Member of the UW's 1916 Big Ten Championship basketball team that compiled a 20-1 record and were retroactively named national champions by the Helms Foundation (Helms Foundation was the U.S. authority on basketball 1905-1960s)
- Two-time first-team All-American (1912-13) and led the Big Ten in scoring (109 points in 12 games) during the 1916 season
- Named first-team All-Big Ten forward in both 1915 and 1916
- 1916 Helms Foundation National Player of the Year
- Coached Indiana's basketball team to a 25-16 mark in 1921 and 1922
- His family started the Illinois Glass Company, and George played a prominent role in the development of the glass backboards the predecessor to the plexi-glass backboards used today
- 1918 Helms Foundation National Player of the Year (Helms Foundation was the U.S. authority on basketball 1905-1960s)
- Member of the 1916 and 1918 Big Ten championship teams
- 1918 team captain
- Two-time All-Big Ten
- Chandler coached at Iowa State for seven seasons (40-85, 1921?28) and later coached Marquette basketball for 21 seasons (193-198, 1930?51). His 193 victories are second all-time behind Al McGuire.
- Chandler was president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1938 and was instrumental in forming the NCAA Basketball Tournament. His best years came in 1932-33 when he directed the squad to a mark of 14-3 and in the following campaign when Marquette compiled a 15-4 record.
- Chandler is a member of Marquette University's M Club Hall of Fame.
