MADISON, Wis. -- Devin Harris and No. 22 Wisconsin feel right at home.
Harris scored 25 points and the Badgers ended a two-game losing streak with a 68-45 victory over Penn State on Wednesday night.
"We play well here," Harris said. "That hasn't been a problem for us. It sure hasn't."
Mike Wilkinson added 14 points and nine rebounds as the Badgers (18-6, 9-4 Big Ten) won their 27th straight on their home court and improved to 23-0 in conference home games under third-year coach Bo Ryan.
Harris feels especially comfortable at the Kohl Center. In the Badgers' last four home games, he's averaged 31.5 points and made 17 3-pointers.
Harris constantly found holes in the Nittany Lions' zone and had five 3-pointers, including a four-point play, and three three-point plays.
"Penn State did a good job of protecting the rim," Ryan said. "And when people do that, you've got to hit some shots. And Devin was the guy that picked us up that way."
Harris was coming off a 5-of-20 shooting performance against Michigan, which used a zone defense to shut down the Badgers.
But Penn State's zone had little effect on Harris, who also had three assists without a turnover.
"You pick your poison," Penn State coach Ed DeChellis said. "With our two young kids (at guard), I just didn't think we could guard him man-to-man."
Jan Jagla scored 16 points and Marlon Smith added 15 for Penn State (9-15, 3-10), which lost its 22nd straight Big Ten road game.
Jagla was 7-of-13 from the field but the rest of the Nittany Lions were a combined 11-of-36.
"We just don't offensively have anybody we can really throw the ball to and score," DeChellis said.
It didn't help Penn State that Wisconsin kept a fresh defender on Jagla throughout the second half.
After scoring 14 points in the first half, Jagla had just two in the second half and none over the final 13:16 of the game.
"He didn't get real comfortable in the second half," Ryan said. "He was in a lounge chair in the first half."
After trailing by as many as 16 points midway through the first half, the Nittany Lions scored the last eight points of the first half and the first four of the second half to pull within 30-26 with 17:37 remaining.
But Harris scored 12 points as Wisconsin, coming off losses at Illinois and Michigan, answered with a 28-6 run over the next 11:15 to put the game away.
"We hit a point where we got a couple baskets and then we got a couple stops and the crowd got into it and it kind of went from there," Wilkinson said.
Ryan was most impressed by the Badgers' 19 assists on 24 field goals.
"That's what you have to do against a zone," Ryan said. "You can't drive in the middle and take all jump shots. I thought we did a good job of moving the ball and we have to continue to do that."
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