The Badgers so far this season:
I like the Badgers. I think they're good. [Alando] Tucker hasn't probably scored as well, and that's good, because other guys seem to be picking it up.
The Badgers' maturity:
You know what they've done a great job of over there is that they got these guys who are all older players who they redshirted. So, when you look at a guy like [Jason] Chappell, he's a junior but he's really a senior. They really have nice maturity.
Kammron Taylor's ability to run the team:
He's a good athlete and he's got experience. They got good familiarity with that offense, and within that offense they make good reads. They really do a good job of understanding and finding a soft spot in that defense.
The Badgers' free-throw troubles:
It's difficult to find people who will commit to free-throw shooting. Sometimes you get enamored with running the offense and the complexity of that, that you don't have time for it. I don't know if that's Wisconsin's problem or not ... In one year, and possibly two, my team led the nation in free throw shooting. We had good shooters, [Keith] Van Horn and [Michael] Doleac as a pretty good shooter ... The Badgers check the effort box and they check the teamwork box. If I'm gonna check two boxes, I wanna check those two.
The state of the Big Ten Conference:
There's the three bottom-dwellers who have no chance of anything: Penn State, Northwestern and Purdue. You hope that you're not the team that on any given night they pull an upset off of. They gotta beat somebody. And then you got Minnesota, who just got [Vincent] Grier back. They don't have a lot to go with Grier, but they're at the middle of the pack. Then they got seven teams that could possibly win the league, but Michigan always kind of self-destructs. So, it's gonna be an interesting year in that league, because there are so many teams that are bunched up and kind of even.
