"Well, I would be foolish if I even thought about that or tried to reason that out at this time," Bennett said. "My wife and I are going to get away for a while and think about some things.

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"My original commitment was a five-year commitment to turn the program around. I believe that has happened. There's a good nucleus returning. There's a good chance to recruit. Those are all very positive.

"You don't want to make a decision when you're really elated or really depressed over a situation. At the appropriate time, I'll know. A commitment from me would be a long-term commitment, not a short one."

If he decides to retire, he will have finished with the school's first trip to the Final Four since 1941. It came after the Badgers started with an 11-10 record.

"This team will go down as one of my very favorite," Bennett said. "They're more like the coach than any of them in that they're very vulnerable, they have a lot of weaknesses and make a lot of mistakes. Sometimes they get a little frightened.

"But they have a very good heart. They always try. We were outplayed badly today, probably didn't look good. But I know you can't say we were outhustled. We played hard for 40 minutes."

Izzo on Florida

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo will have to ask his team to change its pace completely for Monday's national championship game (CBS, 9:18 ET) against a deep, running Florida team.

It couldn't be more different than what the Spartans experienced against Wisconsin, Izzo said.

"Nope," he said. "It couldn't. I mean, those are two opposites. And yet, in our league, we've played some teams like that, but not as much this year since Tom Davis left Iowa. The pressing they do, the way they can spot up and hit 3s -- (coach) Billy (Donovan) has done a great job with that team."

Dearth of scoring

Points were as difficult to come by as Final Four tickets. Michigan State led 19-17 at halftime. In Final Four history, only five games had a lower point total in the first half.

The 53-41 final score was the lowest scoring in a Final Four game since the advent of the shot clock in the 1986 tournament.

Fans shouldn't have been surprised, but they probably weren't happy, either.

"We've dealt with it long enough that I was happy with the halftime score," Wisconsin's Mike Kelley said. "I wanted to be ahead at halftime, but to be down only two and not having played our best half, by far, we felt we could do some things to get back in the ballgame."

Wisconsin's top three scorers this season, Jon Bryant, Mark Vershaw and Andy Kowske had two points combined in the first half.

"We're used to people not liking our style of play," Kowske said. "I think they understand it, but they just don't like it. People want to see teams run, and we don't do much of that. We wanted to keep the score low. That means we were controlling the pace."

Board battle

Part of the reason Wisconsin lost was a 42-20 rebounding deficit. On the offensive boards, the Spartans had a 14-2 advantage.

"We were boys against men out there," Kowske said. "Just looking at these stats, it's pretty bad."

Izzo explained the Spartans' technique.

"We talked about spinning off them, doing a little bit more aggressive athletic movement instead of physical movement," he said. "If you are physical with Wisconsin, it really works in their favor. So we worked a couple days on hitting and spinning instead of just hitting and standing and trying to fist fight them."

Sure thing

Michigan State's Morris Peterson has made all 16 of his free throws in the NCAA Tournament. He hasn't missed a free throw since March 10, the Spartans' first game in the Big Ten Tournament.