Heading into Tuesday night’s match-up, the No. 21 Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team (18-5, 8-4 Big Ten) had not lost to the now 14–9 (5-7 Big Ten) Indiana Hoosiers at the Kohl Center since 1998.
It wasn’t pretty for the No. 17 Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team on Saturday, but with big games from John Tonje and Carter Gilmore, the Badgers battled their way to a gritty 75-69 road win against the Northwestern Wildcats.
Heading into Wednesday night’s road matchup with the Maryland Terrapins, the No. 17 Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team was coming off perhaps their most complete game of the season. But Wisconsin couldn’t replicate its success, running out of gas and falling to Maryland 76-68 at a sold-out XFINITY Center in College Park, Maryland.
For the No. 18 Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team (16-4), Sunday was one of those days where everything clicked. Playing with an edge, the Badgers got on top of the Nebraska Cornhuskers (12-8) early, played consistently sound defense and let the threes fly, dominating Nebraska for most of the 40-minute game that ended in an 83-55 victory.
Unable to mount a late-game comeback, the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team saw their seven-game winning streak come to a screeching halt as they fell to the UCLA Bruins 85-83 Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
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The Wisconsin Badgers (15-3) continued to play consistently sound basketball on Saturday, solidly defeating the USC Trojans (11-7) 84-69 in Los Angeles. More than halfway through the season, the Badgers seem to be firing on all cylinders.
The Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team took a 17-point lead into halftime, but it took all 40 minutes of the game on Jan. 14 to fend off the pesky Ohio State Buckeyes at the Kohl Center 70-68 to win their sixth straight game and improve to 14-3 on the season and 4-2 in the Big Ten Conference.
Behind a balanced scoring attack and diligent second-half defense, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team overcame a slow start to handily defeat the Minnesota Golden Gophers 80-59 on Jan. 10.
With only one game in the previous 18 days, the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team could’ve been forgiven if it came out of its midseason hibernation sloppy. But instead of starting the rest of conference play with a lull, Wisconsin did just the opposite. The Badgers scored a Kohl Center record 116 points, hit a program record 21 three-pointers and thoroughly throttled the Iowa Hawkeyes 116-85.
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