Wisconsin's slow start sinks UW against Northwestern
Much has been made this season of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s inability to close games.
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Much has been made this season of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s inability to close games.
Coming out of the under-16 media timeout at the 15:46 minute mark of the first half, the Rolling Stone’s hit song “Start Me Up” blared over the loudspeaker. The Badgers trailed 14-1 at the time; perhaps they were in need of some reminding that the game had begun nearly five minutes earlier.
Less than ten minutes after addressing the media following Wisconsin’s (3-7 Big Ten, 10-13 overall) 74-63 loss to Nebraska (8-4, 17-8), a visibly emotional Ethan Happ was back on the Kohl Center floor putting up free throws.
Ethan Happ knew the Badgers needed a change if they wanted to turn their season around.
After a frustrating two-game road trip, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team (3-6 Big Ten, 10-12 overall) returns home Monday evening to meet the Nebraska Cornhuskers (7-4, 16-8) for the second time this year.
Yet again early in a conference game, the Wisconsin Badgers (3-6 Big Ten, 10-12 overall) found themselves trailing by double-digits. Redshirt sophomore guard Brevin Pritzl gave UW a quick 3-0 lead over the Michigan State Spartans (7-2, 19-3), but after just under 10 minutes of action the Badgers trailed 22-8 and seemed on track for another blowout road loss.
The easiest six-game stretch in the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s (3-5 Big Ten, 10-11 overall) conference schedule is over. Having just one opponent ranked in the KenPom top 50, the Badgers’ last half dozen games were a relative cakewalk compared to what’s coming next. The meat of their schedule opens Friday night in East Lansing, Mich., against No. 6 Michigan State (6-2, 18-3).
Three minutes and 42 seconds into Wisconsin’s (3-5 Big Ten, 10-11 overall) matchup with Iowa (2-7, 11-11) Tuesday night, the Badgers had taken nine shots. They had zero points to show for it. That about sums up the night UW had, getting tossed around by the Big Ten’s second worst team, 85-67.
While the Wisconsin Badgers (3-4 Big Ten, 10-10 overall) have struggled to play consistent basketball throughout the first twenty games of their season, UW’s struggles pale in comparison to its next opponent’s.
For decades, the Wisconsin men’s basketball program was forgettable.
Basketball is fickle. Sometimes, like last Tuesday against Purdue, your opponent drills 14-of-22 threes and you lose by 28. Other nights, if you’re Brevin Pritzl, you hear your coach yelling at you to shoot the ball before the shot clock expires, so you pull up and bank in a tightly contested 23-footer.
After a drubbing in West Lafayette, Ind., at the hands of then-No. 3 Purdue, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team (3-4 Big Ten, 10-10 overall) was desperate for a win — or at least a good all-around performance. The Badgers got both Friday night at the Kohl Center, smacking Illinois (0-7, 10-10) in the mouth in the second half to come away with a 75-50 victory.
Nothing has come easy for the Wisconsin Badgers (2-4 Big Ten, 9-10 overall) during the 2017-’18 season. While close early season defeats to Xavier, Baylor and UCLA might have provided glimpses of hope for a group chock full of roster turnover, injuries and inconsistent play have continued to shape UW’s underwhelming season.
As the final buzzer sounded in Lincoln and the Wisconsin men’s basketball team (2-3 Big Ten, 9-9 overall) dropped to .500 nearly 20 games into the season, the situation felt unprecedented.
Wisconsin’s 19-year NCAA Tournament appearance streak is in dire straits.
Riding a five-game winning streak into snowy Piscataway, N.J., the Wisconsin Badgers (2-1 Big Ten, 9-7 overall) are looking to continue their winning ways and overcome their recent string of injuries against Rutgers (0-3, 10-6).
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team (2-1 Big Ten, 9-7 overall) re-arrived at its conference schedule as the Badgers downed Indiana (1-2, 8-7), 71-61, for their fifth straight win.
Just hours before the Wisconsin football team kicks off against Miami at the Orange Bowl, the Badger men’s basketball team (1-1 Big Ten, 7-7 overall) will welcome the UMass-Lowell River Hawks (6-6) to the Kohl Center in its last contest before conference play resumes.
After a long layoff for final exams, the Wisconsin Badgers (1-1 Big Ten, 6-7 overall) refocused on the coming conference season as they walloped Green Bay (5-8) 81-60 at the Kohl Center Saturday evening.
The last time the Wisconsin Badgers were on the Kohl Center floor came more than one week ago, when freshman guard Brad Davison drew a charge 94 feet from UW’s basket with two seconds remaining. Davison split his ensuing pair of free throws and, in the process, jumpstarted a flurry of debate on if the play was smart or, as Western Kentucky Athletic Director Todd Stewart called it, “a disgrace.”