Preview: No.21 Wisconsin is looking for a seasonal move of Iowa – Badgerblitz

No.21 Wisconsin (18-5, 8-4 Big Ten) vs. Iowa (13-9, 4-7 Big Ten)

Date/time – Saturday, February 8, 12 pm

Arena – Carver-Hawkeye Arena (15,500)

Watch – NBC (Noah Eagle, Nick Bahe and Caroline Pineda)

Radio – Badgers Radio Network (Matt Lepay and Brian Butch), Sirius 85 or 390, IHEARDIO Flow online.

Series – Wisconsin leads 90-86 (Iowa leads 54-31 in Iow City)

Last meeting – Wisconsin won, 116-85, on January 2, 2025 in Madison

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Betting line: Wisconsin – 3.5

Watch Player: Winter leads UW and ranks seventh in the large ten shoot by 59.6 percent of the terrain (min 10.0 ppg per game). It also leads Big Ten shooting 71.1 percent (64-90) on 2-point FG. He tries to become the first badger to shoot 60 percent of the pitch, while an average of 10.0+ PPG, as Patrick Tompkins launched 63.6 percent with 14.1 ppg in 1990-91.

Watch Player: Called Julius Erving, the small ahead of the year in the middle of the season Top 10 on Wednesday, Sandfort has scored at least 20 points five times in the last eight games, giving him the best team games of 20+ points this season.

Badgers have won five of the last six games and for the first time they have been looking for the season for the first time since they won both in 2022.

Wisconsin went 5-4 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena from 2014 with wins in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2022.

Each of the last two games in Iow City went overtime with the victory of UW, 78-75, in 2022, and Hawkis won 88-86 last season.

The Badgers 18-5 record is the third best start of the team under Greg Guard, next 2016-17 (20-3) and 2021-22 (19-4).

Badgers are 11-5 compared to the first two quadrants of Net Rankings, including six wins in Quad 1 and Zero lost outside Quad 1. Only six schools have more wins in Q1 than UW.

Wisconsin an average of 81.3 points per match, fifth in the history of UW and the highest after the 86.3 PPG record school in 1970-71. Wisconsin ranks eighth in Kenpom’s offensive efficiency. The UW brand of 123.1 will be ranked as the second highest grade of the Kenpom era (1997).

UW has made 10 or more 3-challenging in 13 games this season, which is the largest in the big ten and coincides with the highest amount for one-season schools in the history of the school. The best eight goal scorers of UW have hit at least 12 threes in the season.

Ranking seventh in the large ten on points, Tonje shoots 52.6 percent of 2FGS, 40.7 percent of 3FGS and 91.8 percent at the free throws line.

Iowa leads the big ten and ranks fifth on a national scale, an average of 85.5 points per game. Hokis also has the highest percentage of the field’s target (.501) and an effective field goal (.582) in the large ten, ranked fourth in both categories.

Iowa shot better than 50 percent of the floor 11 times and better than 60 percent three times. The team is 9-2 for shooting at least 50 percent of the pitch.

Hawkis has scored at least eight goals in 3 points in 18 games, including 10+ in 12 competitions. Iowa made 18 in the victory over South – the largest since 2022 – and 17 in the victory over Nebraska. Iowa is the top of the large ten (18th nationally), an average of 10.3 per game.

Iowa leads the large ten in assists (19.1, 3rd in the NCAA) and the help-of-turnover ratio (1,86, 3rd in NCAA). The team had 20+ assists in nine games.

Iowa gathered to win four games this season when in the second half. Iowa returned from a 15 -year -old victory in overtime on Nebraska on January 7 in Iow City

If there is one game that embodies what Wisconsin’s updated crime is trying, do not look further than the January match against Iowa.

The performance of Wisconsin’s 116 points was a record of Kohl Center, his 21 Tripoint for Big Ten’s record and his 64.5 percent shooting percent Double digits, UW outpaced Iow 37-21, and held Hoki up to 38.2 percent in the second half.

Even with the missing Hokis Owen Freeman, their leading goal scorer, a rebund and blocker, the badgers know better than to expel the one.

“Winning is difficult and gaining the road in the big ten is especially difficult,” said Clesmith. “No matter if you play in the jersey arena of Jersey Mike or Carver-Huki. We know they will come out and will be ready to play high levels and a quick clip. You can expect a team in Iowa who will try to throw the first blow. “

Hokis’ shocks tend to land with their transitional crime. Iowa is second in the big ten and 12th national, an average of 15.45 quick breakdown points. So, while Freeman’s absence creates a void in the middle, Iowa is still happy to move and shoot Dix and Sandstone.

Without freeman on Tuesday for the first time, the security duo is combined for 50 of Iow’s 81 points with a loss of nine points. Dix scored 27 points in shooting from 10 to 16, while Sandfrat stated 23 in firing 9 out of 17 with five 3-indicatives.

Seeing that he was exposed to a pickup in UCLA, Wisconsin’s protection against the ball screens, limiting the shot with three points improved, and preventing penetration after following some of the rotations improved. This will be tested with Iowa.

“They will come as fast as anyone in our league and puts pressure not only on the rim with their big ones, but you have many guys who control the wings shooting threes,” Gard said. “Trying to make sure we will receive our defense kit as much as possible and then obviously at halftime. You do not want to catch a lot of rotations. Caught in rotations, don’t you have longer closure and now you roll the dice if you reach Sagittarius on time. “

Iowa tries to replace Freeman with a trio of other fives – Mulvi, Ladi Dembele and even Browns. The trio is on average than 3.5 points per game, which means that Crowl must have an advantage in paint. In six career matches against Iowa, Crowl in double digits five times, an average of 13.7 ppg, 6.3 RPG and 3.0 APG, while shooting 67.4 percent (31-46).

“He’s very stable,” Gard said to Crowl. “I have never been consumed in its scoring because it makes it so much easier. If he draws double teams or additional help, he will create photos for others. We know he is a very willing passerby. This is a good gaming position when you can throw the ball 7 feet at eight feet and spread from there. “

Each of the last five matches in Carver-Hawkeye Arena has been set with six or fewer points. Without freeman, I’ll go a little over it.

Wargul’s forecast: Wisconsin to 11.

Record: 19-4 (18-5 ATS)

Precision Points: 178 (7.7 per game)

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