Location: Madison, Wis. | Founded: 1848 | Enrollment: 41,466 | Colors: Cardinal and White
Coach: Bo Ryan | Home Court: Kohl Center | Capacity: 17,142 Record:
(20-13, 10-8
Big Ten)
Now that it's nut-cutting time, there's even less room in Bo Ryan's world for mistakes. Expect him to have a short bench and a short leash during the postseason. The perfect case in point came at the outset of Wisconsin's Big Ten-clinching win at Northwestern on Saturday. Point guard Trevon Hughes committed a turnover against NU's 1-3-1 trapping defense within the game's first 10 seconds. Boom! Ryan sent in sixth man Jason Bohannon to replace Hughes. Moreover, seventh and eighth men Greg Stiemsma and Tim Jarmusz played a combined 6 minutes against the last-place Wildcats.
PLAYER ROTATION Usual Starters -- F Marcus Landry, F Brian Butch, G Trevon Hughes, Michael Flowers, G Joe Krabbenhoft. Key Subs -- G Jason Bohannon, C Greg Stiemsma, G Tim Jarmusz.
GAME REVIEW
Wisconsin 57, Michigan State 42
Wisconsin 77, Penn State 41
Wisconsin 65, Northwestern 52
GAME PREVIEW
Vs. Michigan, Friday, March 14 (Big Ten tournament quarterfinal)
IN FOCUS Under Bo Ryan, Wisconsin has a history of turning regular-season riches into Big Ten tournament rags. After sharing the 2002 Big Ten title with Ohio State, Indiana and Illinois, the top-seeded Badgers turned around and dropped their opener 58-56 to Iowa. Wisconsin earned the top seed again in 2003 after claiming the title outright, but again took a quarterfinal dive with a 58-50 loss to Ohio State.
Perhaps the Badgers were mere victims of teams on a mission -- both the 2002 Hawkeyes and 2003 Buckeyes made it to the tournament finals -- but losing in this year's quarterfinals could be more costly.
Not only could the Badgers lose a seed or two in the NCAA Tournament with an early dismissal in Indianapolis, they could surrender some of the confidence they've built up by winning seven in a row to close out the regular season.
ROSTER REPORT
--Sixth man Jason Bohannon set the school record for consecutive free throws during Wisconsin's win at Northwestern on Saturday.
Bohannon went 6 for 6 from the line against the Wildcats to run his streak to 39 straight. Former all-Big Ten guard Wes Matthews set the previous record of 35 all the way back in 1980.
--If senior guard Michael Flowers isn't named the Big Ten's defensive player of the year when regular-season awards are announced Monday, there'll be a mad mob in Madison. The 6-foot-2 Flowers locks on the opposition's best perimeter player and doesn't let go.
When the Badgers clinched the Big Ten title against Northwestern on Saturday, Flowers spent most of his day on the league's leading 3-point shooter, Craig Moore. He wound up with just 7 shot attempts (3 of them 3-pointers) and finished with 11 points.
Flowers also earned a game-high 4 steals to push his career total to 159. He needs six more to pass Devin Harris for fifth on Wisconsin's all-time steals chart.
--Based on his tentative and turnover-prone play against Northwestern's trapping 1-3-1 defense, freshman guard Tim Jarmusz might not be a big factor in the postseason. Jarmusz committed 3 turnovers in 3 first-half minutes on Saturday and played just 1 minute thereafter.
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The nonconference schedule is not completed but frankly from what I can see even if the rest are cream puffs the Badgers will have one of, if not the best SOS in the nation next year. Not only do they play Duke next year but they also play in the Maui Invitational (a hugely tough tourney), and they'll play Marquette and the other two in state schools. Knowing Greg Gard though I suspect an
According to Rivals.com Evan Anderson drops to a 4 star and is now ranked #37 overall for the class of 2010. He also dropped to #3 for centers in his class. He is still 6'11" and 250 lbs.
I was asked to keep this a secret when i was told by Van Blue...but he officially re-opened up his recruitment today. Im a good friend Van's and he has pretty much known that he was gonna decommit from UW for a while now, and i say good for him. He doesnt deserve to dumb his game down to fit into Bo Ryans system that no longer works in my opinion. Him opening up his commitment me
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Yep, I think Bo knows what is going on. I think he's alot smarter than some of the vocal MINORITY of posters (**cough** motion **cough** **cough** MT **cough**) on this board give him credit for:
The question is relatively simple. Shoud Bo Ryan move Jason Bohannon back to the bench?
I think he should, for a couple of reasons, Jason is probably the best 3 point shooter on the team. He struggled mightily at times last yer with his shot. It just seems like he needs to be on the bench to get in the flow of the game. I like Jason as a player, I just think h
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Although the matchups have not been officially announced yet, I think I know what the matchups will be for the first round. The way I think they do it for these tournaments is they rank the teams in the order of last season's RPI numbers, so based on the RPI, here is what I think the matchups will be.
Hey guys, I just saw something interesting about one of our former Badgers, Freddie Owens. He of course was the guy who made one of the most clutch shots in Badger history during the 2003 tournament against Tulsa. I saw that he was just hired as an assistant coach at Montana, so I am pretty certain that they will be paying a visit to Madison in the not too distant future. Bo will
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J.P. Tokoto became one of the youngest players ever to receive a scholarship offer from the University of Wisconsin Wednesday afternoon.
The multi-skilled and ultra-athletic 6-foot-5 wing player recently completed his freshman season at Menomonee Falls and is now playing on the grassroots scene for the Wisconsin Playground Warriors.
RUmor has it that JP Gavinski will give up his scholarship for his senior season. Rumor also has it that a 3 star Xavier recruit (JD Weatherspoon) who had verbally committed to Xavier but just recently decommitted might be the one taking this scholarship. Weatherspoon is known to be an athletic forward. We'll see what develops here. He would join Vander Blue and Evan Anderson in the
Anyone else notice that one of the key bench reserves for the Dayton Flyers was Mickey Perry (former Wisconsin Badger who transferred). Dayton had a very good team this year and from what I understand Perry was part of their guard rotation averaging 14.5 minutes per game and appearing in 33 games and from what I understand his minutes grew as the year went on. I always thought Perry was a prett
First of all, congratulations Badgers on a great first round! I love to see the Florida teams go down.
I know there are a handful of areas that need improvement for next season to be more successful than this one was. The biggest one I can think of is finishing the games strong. There more than a handfull of times this season where we could just not fin
Not bad for losing so many seniors. I had you guys going into the Sweet 16 beating Xavier. You know how much I must have thought of you considering I have suffered some heart ache at the hands of Bo Ryan and the Badgers. That score skews how close the game really was. Shockingly, Xavier won by playing down and dirty Big Ten ball. Good luck to y
