Indiana heads to Wisconsin, striving to click 20 -Mach Kohl Center Losting Skid – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Western Lafayet – Indiana has made progress in recent weeks.

The Husers switched from the loss of games from agonizing large margins to their loss from agonizing small ones.

This can be cold comfort as the losses are piling up – five in six games now – and this level of improvement will certainly not be enough to get the huses in the NCAA – ESPN tournament as Indiana as a fifth team as from the field as from Monday – but it’s nothing.

“The good thing is that we are in these games, but we have to finish,” said Huselers Trey Galoway guard after losing 81-76 on Friday to Maki Arena.

The loss of boiler manufacturers was the second consecutive game in which the Husicians (14-8, 5-6 large ten) led with less than 15 seconds to play just to get out. Both matches came against teams that are currently qualifying in the top 20 of the AP poll, as the loss of the boilers came after losing at home 79-78 to Maryland.

This two-game section is far from 25 points from 25 points from Iowa and Illinois Husers, published earlier in January, but there is still no as the team has to turn its season.

Galoway, a fifth year, who scored 15 points and threw five assists against Pountry, did not make a secret of his disappointment after falling on the IU rival.

“It’s very disappointing because we’re right there,” he said. “We have to continue to fight, there are a lot of games left, but let’s know that we are right there, so close to finding ways to win these close games, is definitely disappointing for all of us because we want to win in a possible tallest way. … It is always challenging to lose games like this. “

This impotence spilled against Pountry for Hoosiers Center Oumar Ballo. With IU, he left 77-76 in the final seconds, Point Guard Myles Rice attacked the basket rather than calling a time-out. His shot was blocked, sealing the victory for boilers. Ballo disagreed with the decision and made his feelings known in the fuss at the subsequent time -Aut, calling himself in the direction of Rice with a sick gaze on his face.

Ballo had 14 points and eight fights against boiler manufacturers while shooting 6 for 7 of the pitch. It has an average of 15 points and 11.3 fights in the last six games, but is unable to bring the Husers to the necessary victories in this section.

“Everyone is heated in the midst of the moment,” Indiana coach Mike Woodson said about the wrath of Ballo at the end of Partyu’s game. “He did not think it was a good game, and he expressed his opinion on what was right. You just hope you can learn from it, upgrade and move on. “

The schedule offers the Husers there is no time to easily move forward. After playing at Maki Arena, where they lost 13 of their last 16 games, Iu Will Tonight has been traveling to a stadium where he has even had less success in recent years – the center of Kohl in Madison, Wisconsin.

The Husers won only once at Wisconsin’s home fitness, and this victory came only a week after the Arena officially opened in January 1998. Since then, IU has lost 20 consecutive road games against Badgers, a series that covers six coaching terms in Indiana. The Husers lost 91-79 in Madison last season, despite 28 points from attacker Malik Reno.

However, in this series there is also an opportunity-Indiana can go a long way to washing the acidic feelings from Maryland and Partyu’s games with a long-awaited triumph of the home above the home.

Wisconsin (17-5, 7-4 Big Ten) enters the game, ranked No. 21 in the latest AP poll and winner in nine of their last 11 games. Badgers, led by the 10th year coach Greg Gard, boasted one of the best crimes in the country, ranked 33rd on a national scale (81.5 points per match), No. 1 in the percentage of free throws rpm (10.3 per game).

Wisconsin Guards John Tonzhe and John Blacwell combined to an average of 34.1 points, while shooting nearly 39% of the 3-point range as a duet.

Badgers go out of winning at Northwestern on Saturday and have only lost once with double -digit this season. This means that if Indiana will win, she will probably have to fill the section of a narrow game, which has been an important problem lately. The end of the games of Partyu and Maryland were darkened by incorrect communities between players and coaches.

“We need to get better. This is the bottom line, ”Udson said after losing the boilers. “In my bigger part, I thought our boys were competing, they did a hell of a job, but it’s about winning this league.”