Over the last seven years, the Buckeyes and Badgers have formed a nice little rivalry within the Big Ten Conference. Fueled by both teams’ success and a little help from a vocal head coach, it’s consistently been one of the can’t-miss games when the Badgers come to town. Last night was no different as Wisconsin ran their slow jam offense to perfection in the first half, working the Buckeyes over with a barrage of big man threes. But, the pace quickened a bit in the second half, and the leading scorer in the conference took over as Deshaun Thomas led the 11th-ranked Bucks to a 58-49 win in The Schott.
Looking at the B1G slate, the Wisconsin games always scare me because of their staunch commitment to Bo Ryan’s slow, deliberate pace on both ends of the floor. Whatever the next greatest degree of slowness is beyond a snail’s pace, that was the speed of this game at the tip. There were five points TOTAL scored in the first seven minutes of the game: one three from Mike Bruesewitz and a...
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PLAYERS:
Deshaun Thomas,
Mike Bruesewitz,
Ryan Evans,
Aaron Craft,
LaQuinton Ross,
Traevon Jackson,
Jared Berggren
TEAMS: Ohio State Buckeyes, Wisconsin Badgers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Michigan State Spartans
TEAMS: Ohio State Buckeyes, Wisconsin Badgers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Michigan State Spartans
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