 After a down year under interim head coach Bill Rothwell Johnson and Standbrook got the Badgers back to their winning ways, posting a still team record 37 wins in 1976–77 en route to the program's second national title.Standbrook remained in Madison for ten years, winning two more national titles (one more with Johnson and another under his successor Jeff Sauer) before trying his hand at the top job once more, heading to Italy to take over HC Varese.While the team performed well, reaching the semifinals that year Standbrook returned to the college ranks the following year as an assistant to Shawn Walsh at Maine.