Illinois comes to town tonight to take on the Badgers. This is a must win for Bucky. Badgers won at Illinois 63-55 already this season. Hayes led Wisconsin with 19 points. Badgers never trailed after a dunk by Iverson with 4:56 remaining in the 1st half. Game can be found on The BIGTEN Network at 6:30 Central time.
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Memo to Badgers... After a 10-0 run by not shooting 3s, maybe going back to jacking 3s that aren't going in is responsible for Illinois' run that has you back down 6...
Badgers start slow again, then go on a 12-0 run to go up by 4. Then Illinois close the half on a 12-1 run to lead 29-25 at the break. Wisconsin 1 of 13 on threes. Happ having a good game, the others not so much.
Stating the obvious here, but a loss here probably means the NIT. You can't lose to sub-500 teams at home in conference play when you are on the bubble.
Nigel Hayes is 1 for his last 18.
Vitto and Happ are 6-9. The rest of the team is 2 of 19.
Terrible start to the second half.
18-1 run by Illinois. Almost 8 minutes without a FG. Just a pathetic showing so far.
Now they're missing FTs...
Here they come...
15-0 run... Wow!
Come on Bucky........kick some Illini arse..
Foul trouble leads Illinois to go zone D. That enables the Badgers to go a 17-0 run. Lead by 7 at the under 4 TO.
They missed plenty of decent looks in the first half... They're going in now.
Well, big run leads to a big g bounce back win. When they had the streak, they were hitting shots. It came apart in Lansing, and the first 25 minutes of this one- then pop...
Good win Bucky.
Illinois is horrible