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Despite some occasional bursts of production, the Badger’s White team (offense) fell to the Cardinal team (defense) in Saturday’s Spring Game by a score of 61-47.
The Badgers’ football team, under first-year head coach Gary Andersen, will sing “On Wisconsin” after every game. Win or lose, home or away, Andersen says he owes it to the fans to put on a show.
As great as the NCAA Tournament is, March Madness comes packed with a brutal reality: one misstep and its all over. With one half of poor shooting, Wisconsin found that out the hard way, falling to 12th-seeded Ole Miss to bring a quick end to a postseason run many thought had a chance to go the distance.
To some, Thursday marks the beginning of the college basketball season; The Big Dance is finally here. All right, the “first-round” games were technically played Tuesday and Wednesday, while Thursday marks the beginning of the “second round.” (According to the NCAA, 60 of the 68 teams received a first-round bye.) The No. 5-seeded Badgers (12-6 Big Ten, 23-11 overall) will begin their run at an NCAA championship Friday morning (tip is set for 11:40 a.m. CDST) in a second-round matchup with No. 12-seeded Ole Miss, who clinched an automatic bid in the NCAA tournament after sweeping through the Southeastern Conference (SEC) tournament. “Ole Miss is a team that’s gonna have a lot of momentum coming in,” redshirt senior forward Jared Berggren said. “We’ll see what happens.” The Rebels (12-6 SEC, 26-8 overall) play faster than any team in the Big Ten, averaging 73.7 possessions per game. By comparison, UW averages 63.6 and Indiana, the fastest-paced team in the conference, averages just below 70. Wisconsin and Ole Miss had two common opponents this season—Arkansas and Florida—both of which play with the Rebels in the SEC. The Badgers beat the Razorbacks on a neutral court in November but lost to the Gators by 18 points in Gainesville. Similarly, Ole Miss dropped a road game to Florida, 78-64, and beat Arkansas at home. However, the Rebels also knocked off the Gators in the SEC tournament title game, 66-63, during which they outscored Florida 40-25 in the second half. “[The Rebels] are a dangerous team, to go in and beat Florida—that shows what they’re capable of,” Berggren said. “We’ll have our hands full.” Ole Miss has used its up-tempo style of play to average over 78 points per game this season, good enough for seventh-best in the nation. Rebels junior guard Marshall Henderson leads the offensive attack, averaging more than 20 points per game. On the interior, Ole Miss senior forwards Murphy Holloway (14.6 points per game, 9.6 rebounds per game) and Reginald Buckner (9.5 ppg, 7.4 rpg) provide the Rebels with a stout inside presence. While Holloway and Buckner’s combined 17 rpg outnumbers that of any duo in the Big Ten, Berggren said playing in the nation’s top league will have UW ready for tip Friday. “What we’ve gone through in the Big Ten throughout the year and this weekend as well, it’s prepared us for anything,” Berggren said. The Wisconsin-Ole Miss winner will square off in a third-round matchup with the winner of No. 4-seeded Kansas State and No. 13-seeded La Salle’s matchup.
CHICAGO—Wisconsin had beaten Indiana 11 straight times entering Saturday’s Big Ten tournament semifinal game. It’s difficult to beat any team that many games in a row, especially when the opponents are perhaps too familiar with one another from playing in the same conference.
CHICAGO—Normally when a team makes just four of its first 28 shots against the No. 6 team in the country, it is going to finish on the losing end. But if there is one thing we have learned about the 2012-’13 edition of Wisconsin men’s basketball, it is that they are anything but normal. Despite scoring just 17 points in the first half, the Ke$ha-loving Badgers (22-10 overall) found a second gear after halftime and put up 51 points over the final 20 minutes en route to a 68-59 victory over the Wolverines to advance to the Big Ten tournament semi-final round.
The first 39 minutes, 56 seconds weren’t the prettiest, but No. 22 Wisconsin (12-6 Big Ten, 21-10 overall) escaped with a win at Penn State (2-16, 10-20) on sophomore guard Traevon Jackson’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer Sunday at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Wisconsin saw its regular season Big Ten championship chances disappear with a 58-43 loss to No. 10 Michigan State Thursday.
EAST LANSING, Mich.—Wisconsin did not get Michigan State’s best Thursday night. The Izzone was on spring break, the band was out of town and the Spartans couldn’t find the backside of a barn in the first half. The Badgers’ problem was that they couldn’t find it, either. Wisconsin (11-6 Big Ten, 20-10 overall) continued to struggle shooting the basketball, making just 15-of-51 (29 percent) from the field en route to a resounding 58-43 defeat in East Lansing, Mich.
The old adage goes something like, “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.” Unfortunately, the Badgers bought into that sentiment a bit too much Sunday afternoon, missing their final 18 attempts from 3-point range in a 69-56 loss at the hands of Purdue.
Five Badgers will suit up for their final game at the Kohl Center Sunday when Purdue (6-9 Big Ten, 13-15 overall) visits Wisconsin (11-4, 20-8) in the midst of UW’s push to capture a share of the regular season conference championship.
Wisconsin freshman forward Sam Dekker has slowly worked his way into the conversation for Big Ten freshman of the year with four straight games in double figures. But after a career-high 19 points Tuesday against Nebraska, Dekker not only has himself squarely in the driver’s seat for that honor, but may just be positioned for sixth man of the year as well. Checking in just six minutes into the game with the score tied at 8, Dekker helped the Badgers explode on a 24-2 run that erased what had been a 12-11 Nebraska lead and replaced it with a 35-14 UW advantage.
Women's Basketball
EVANSTON, Ill.—Though you wouldn’t have known looking at the sea of red in the stands Wednesday night at Welsh-Ryan Arena, the Badgers did indeed pick up a road win in Evanston, defeating the Wildcats (4-10 Big Ten, 13-14 overall) by a final of 69-41. Running out to a 9-0 lead before the first media break, Wisconsin (10-4, 19-8) never looked back, increasing its lead to 28-12 at the half and cruising home to a comfortable victory.
While any Big Ten conference schedule would be a grueling test this season, Wisconsin (9-4 Big Ten, 18-8 overall) might have had the toughest slate of any team in the conference the last 10 games. The Badgers have played six ranked teams during that stretch, more than any other Big Ten team. Further, none of those 10 games came against a team in the bottom one-third of the conference standings.
Any concerns No. 20 Wisconsin (9-4 Big Ten, 18-8 overall) would come out flat with No. 13 Ohio State (8-5, 18-7) in town, went out the door within a few minutes of play Sunday at the Kohl Center. With the two sides knotted up at 6 in the early stages, Wisconsin held the Buckeyes without a field goal (0-of-14) for nearly nine minutes while scoring 18 unanswered points to put things out of reach for OSU. The visitors wouldn’t pull any closer than 13 the rest of the way, dropping a 71-49 contest—their third loss in the last four games.
Freshman Jared Lang treated his Girlfriend, Amy Katz, to a Valentine’s Day full of wonderful and romantic surprises Thursday night.
Redshirt senior forward Jared Berggren and the rest of UW will have their hands full on the glass against Minnesota Thursday.
The last time No. 20 Wisconsin (8-3 Big Ten, 17-7 overall) played the Gophers (5-6, 17-7), both teams were in a must-win situation. The Badgers came in having dropped two consecutive games in response to their upset win at then-No. 2 Indiana, while Minnesota had fallen back into the middle of the Big Ten with its third-straight loss.
For as long as I’ve followed college basketball, I can’t recall a single season during which I didn’t hear how little significance came with the sport’s regular season.
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