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Poor start dooms Badger hoops

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Just when you didn’t think it could get any worse, the Wisconsin Badgers got off to another slow start and fell to Northwestern 60-52 at the Kohl Center on Thursday night.

Northwestern jumped out to a 18-1 lead, on their way to a much-needed victory.

The Badgers (10-14, 3-8 Big Ten) were coming off a bad loss to Nebraska on Monday, then laid an egg early against the Wildcats on Thursday night.

Northwestern (14-10, 5-6) didn’t do much in the second half, but their lead was enough to survive.  Junior center Derek Pardon finished with 17 points to lead the Wildcats.  Scottie Lindsey chipped in with 14.

Junior forward Khalil Iverson had 15 points and a career high nine rebounds to lead the Badgers.  Ethan Happ added 14 points, Aleem Ford had 12 and freshman guard Brad Davison finished with 10 points.

The Badgers shot a season low 32.8% from the field in Big Ten play.  They hit just 29.4% in the second half.

Sophomore guard Brevin Pritzl’s shooting slump continued.  He finished 0 for 11 and 0 for 9 from three-point range.  The Badgers as a team were 7 of 26 (26.9%) from distance for the game.

The Badgers crawled back to within six at 52-46 with 1:19 left to play, but having to foul late, they watched the Wildcats go 8 for 8 at the free throw line in that final stretch.

The Badgers play next at Maryland on Sunday.

Badger women remain winless in Big Ten play

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The Wisconsin women’s basketball team remains winless in the Big Ten this season.  The Badgers fell on the road 63-43 last night to the Northwestern Wildcats in Evanston, Illinois.

The Wildcats moved to 17-5 on the season, improving to 6-3 in the Big Ten Conference.  They held the Badgers (5-17, 0-9 Big Ten) to 32% shooting from the field, holding Wisconsin scoreless for more than eight minutes over a stretch in the second and third quarters.

The Badgers made just five of its 23 shots in the first 20 minutes.

Cayla McMorris scored 11 points to lead the Badgers.

 

Badgers suffer third straight Big Ten defeat (AUDIO)

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Bucky Badger logoThe Wisconsin Badgers saw their Big Ten losing streak reach three straight games, falling to the Northwestern Wildcats 70-65 in Evanston.

Nigel Hayes scored 17 points, six rebounds and six assists in the loss as the Badgers dropped to 1-4 in the Big Ten and 9-9 overall.

Bryant Mcintosh scored 28 points on 10-of-19 shooting from the field to lead the Wildcats.  McIntosh added five assists and four rebounds and finished 6-of-8 at the free throw line.

Northwestern is known for relying on three-point shooting, but wound up scoring 30 points in the paint.  The Wildcats hit 22 of 34 at the free throw line, while the Badgers got just 13 chances, making 10.

Redshirt freshman Ethan Happ added 12 points, but coach Greg Gard said Happ needs to be more aggressive and more consistent.

Point guard Bronson Koenig (nine points, three turnovers) was frustrated after the game saying the Badgers took a step back with the loss.  He said the Wildcats competed harder than the Badgers and there’s no excuse for that.

AUDIO: Greg Gard on what irked him most :16

AUDIO: Greg Gard says Happ needs to be more aggressive :19

AUDIO: Greg Gard says they missed a lot of easy shots again :19

 

 

Badgers upset by Northwestern (Video)

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The Northwestern Wildcats avenged their Jan. 2 loss to Wisconsin in

Ben Brust

Ben Brust

Evanston by beating the 14th ranked Badgers 65-56 at the Kohl Center on Wednesday night.

The Wildcats ended a string of 14-straight losses in Madison, winning for the first time since 1996.  It also ended a 7-game overall losing streak against the Badgers.

Wisconsin (17-4, 4-4 Big Ten) missed a chance to move into a 3rd place tie with Iowa (16-5, 5-3).  Instead, the Badgers find themselves tied for fourth place with Minnesota (15-6, 4-4) in the Big Ten.

Drew Crawford entered the game with a 14.3 ppg average.  He poured in 30 points for the Wildcats (11-11, 4-5).  Crawford hit 3 of 5 three-pointers and 10 of 15 shots overall, grabbing eight rebounds. [Read more…]

Hayes leads Badgers in Big Ten opener

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Freshman Nigel Hayes poured in a career high 19 points to lead the 4th ranked Wisconsin Badgers to a 76-49 win over the Northwestern Wildcats in their Big Ten opener in Evanston on Thursday night.

Hayes, the reigning Big Ten freshman of the Week, hit 8 of 12 shots from the field and pulled down 6 rebounds as the Badgers moved within one victory of matching the best start in program history (15-0 in 1911-12 and 1913-14).

Sophomore forward Sam Dekker had 15 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists for the

Nigel Hayes

Nigel Hayes

Badgers.  Their 27-point margin of victory is the largest in a Big Ten road opener in Wisconsin program history.

Ben Brust and Traevon Jackson added 10 points and Frank Kaminsky had 9 points and 8 rebounds for the Badgers.

The Wildcats hit just 3 of 17 three-pointers (17.6%) and 19 of 55 shots overall (34.5%).

The Badgers play their home opener on Sunday night against the #23 Iowa Hawkeyes.  Iowa is 12-2 and will have sophomore forward Jarrod Uthoff in uniform when the two teams hook up Sunday night.  Uthoff transferred from Wisconsin after redshirting as a freshman.  He’s averaging 10.9 points and 6.5 rebounds a game for the Hawkeyes this season.

AUDIO: Asst. Coach Gary Close on Nigel Hayes’ performance :22