Written by Brent Yarina, BTN.comBerggren flashed the athleticism again in Tuesday’s upset at No. 2 Indiana, posterizing Victor Oladipo, a guy used to being on the other end of the poster. Watch the dunk now and see Twitter reaction to the slam in this post.
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Here are the tweets following the slam:
Holy #thunderchunky Jared Berggren. Nasty throwdown by #Badgers big man against #Hoosiers. Wisco off to a nice start.—
Rick Pizzo (@BTNRickPizzo) January 16, 2013
Holy dunk, Berggren.—
Jim Polzin (@JimPolzinWSJ) January 16, 2013
Jared Berggren is singlehandedly going to reverse the notion that white folks can't jump.—
Rob Dauster (@RobDauster) January 16, 2013
Jared Berggren just posterized Victor Oladipo!! #filthy Oladipo draft stock just dropped to 2nd round after that! #badgers @GoodmanCBS—
Wally Szczerbiak (@wallyball) January 16, 2013
Ok Jared Berggren. Send it in big fella! #badgers—
Evan Flood (@Evan_Flood) January 16, 2013
The dunk was so nice, apparently, it got Ben Brust, he of zero career dunks, in the dunking mood:
And here are some of Berggren’s other best dunks from this season:
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He’s got the ball at least a foot above the rim in some of these clips. Who would have predicted this year’s team would be Bo’s best dunking team?
Great clips! Thanks for putting this together.
But seriously, as an ex-Marine – making me suffer through identical ads for each video just turned me off from the USMC.