Removing from the winning of # 21 in Wisconsin over Indiana – Badgerblitz

Madison, Wison. – The Big Ten Preseason Media unofficial poll has signaled the lack of faith. Selected to finish the 12th, 33 writers obviously believe that Wisconsin will be crippled by the loss of Chucky Hepburn, Ai Stor and Tyler Wall.

There is still a month of Big Ten basketball, but the 21st Badgers ranked are still fools from those media members who are pretending to be pronounced. This has become an annual passage in order to ask players how they oppose the pre -season expectations to the extent that they just don’t care what others think.

“I feel that a lot of people just go based on names,” Point Guard Chambers McGi He said. “Some people see many names leave and see the names enter, they don’t really know. Many people didn’t really know the names of the people we had here too … Everyone can have these opinions from these names, but you never know what you have. We knew what we had. “

What Wisconsin has is a solid basketball team, as evidenced by Badgers’s dismantling on both ends of the floor in winning 76-64 on Tuesday night, a last margin that was not indicative of how dominant the game was.

Leading all the way, Wisconsin (18-5, 8-4 Big Ten) took its 11th victory with Quad 1/2 for the season tied to the fifth bigger in the country, in a night in which four players reached double digits , Six players combined to hit 12 triplets, and the defense was closed against a loaded front.

He also divided the gap between Badgers and Hoosiers (14-9, 5-7), a program that writers chose to finish second in the league, but are currently in the 11th.

“We are sustainable”, center Nolan winter He said. “Honestly, we didn’t care at all (where we were selected). We knew what we had in this dressing room. “

Here are my assumptions from the center of Kohl.

Wisconsin’s crime could not hit the wide side of the barn in the first half on Saturday in the northwest. Three days later, the badgers could not miss.

After scoring 25 points in 20 minutes on Saturday, UW darkened this brand for just over seven minutes during the start at the elite level, which includes points of its first seven possessions. Most of this crime came from the perimeter against the protection of Indiana, which held No.

Even in the possession of this opening section where Wisconsin missed a shot, Badgers found a way to generate points through an offensive rebound and John Blackwell Draws a foul, which led to two free throws.

By the time Indiana’s coach Mike Woodson had to burn his second time-out to arrange his group, Wisconsin had scored 24 points at his first 11 possessions by going 8-11 from the pitch and 6-7 out of three.

“We have learned from the last game in the northwest,” senior Max Cleesmith He said. “It was a little better start. The teams will just give it away and give it to you. We had to make sure everyone was ready of breaking. ”

The badgers were as in sync in defense as they were offensive. Indiana’s possessions were a mess: 2-10 from the floor, 0-for-5 from three and three rpm. Given that the defense was again, again, again for Wisconsin this season, this is the area that the chief coach Greg Gard referred to as a catalyst for the beginning.

“We set the tone early,” Gard said. “Obviously, making threes early and we moved the dashboard quickly, but I thought we were really picked up and made good defensive decisions. We turned our defense into insult. ”

About what senior Umar Balo did with a Wisconsin in the desert, it wasn’t nice Steven CroleWinter and the rest of the protection. Playing in Arizona, Ballo controls the low and harassing crawle and winter with a 25-point defeat last December, passing 15 points when shooting 7-for-8, which included a lot of stress stress.

Ballo transferred to Indiana for the reported deal of millions of dollars. Crow and winter went to the weight room to make them more bigger and stronger. It was obvious which move gave the results.

65.5 percent Sagittarius, Ballo did not approach its average season from 14.5 points and 10.0 rebounds. He scored only three points, managed only three shots and six struggles, and seemed clearly disappointed by employees because of the lack of calls and how to defend himself in low post.

From the first response of Clesmith, it became clear at the press conference after the game that the plan is to push the pace to make the ball run up and down the floor. Listed at 7 feet and £ 265, Ballo has been an average of nearly 37 minutes in the last five games in Indiana, so Badgers wanted to try to continue by playing a faster UW video.

They also wanted to be physically with him. Crowul’s only basket was his first attempt to open the result, but the senior was active in protecting and banging the ball from his seats. Winter and reserve senior Carter Gilmore They also took their graduate student in Indiana with success.

“Steve took personally what happened in Arizona last year,” Crowl said. “We all felt embarrassed by how we introduced ourselves there. We knew he was a huge part of the game’s plan tonight, slowing it as much as we could. ”

Winter said,s Experience, given that winter has grown his work and technique after a year of Big Ten’s game.

“He has had a year under his belt now,” Gard said. “He kept really good players. Obviously, he saw what a ballo was like first -hand last year in Arizona. He is more confident, aggressive, experienced player … Now he can keep fours. A year ago, he could not move and move and keep up with the mobile fours. “

Not only were Ballo worried. Two of Indiana’s best goal scorers are in the front court with Ballo (14.5) and Malik Renault (12.5), while the Yazovs swore the low pillar when the ball managed to find a way to the low block.

The result was Wisconsin, who kept Indiana up to 26 points in the paint, and these two players up to a combined 10 points when shooting 4 for 9.

“I felt that our coverage on the ball screen and our defense so that we could hedge and shock and keep the ball walk east-west and not allow them to get deep penetration was important,” Gard said. “They are really good when they can play 2-on-1 down … When the ball comes in, I decided that we were really connected and active in digging, the player’s conversion and the launch of it.”

Holding Indiana to 40.4 percent (23-for-57) and 7-for-27 out of three, 64 Husers points were their third lowest production for the season. UW won 20 straight matches when I allowed less than 65 points.

Wisconsin has big ones who can shoot for years, but much of the extra -season planning and the construction of the list attracts fours that can and will shoot the ball from the perimeter. It is partly why Xavier amos It was added from the portal after he launched 38.5 percent of three in North Illinois last season.

Amos watched the increase of minutes of the season, but he is still only a player of roles with Wisconsin’s attacking machine because Winter and Gilmore were so effective in four places.

Wisconsin usually asks their four to put screens on the middle ball or roll to the perimeter. This was the last against Indiana, and Winter and Gilmore took advantage

Winter was the leading goalkeeper of Wisconsin in the first half with eight points with perfect shooting 3 for 3 (2-2 threes). He scored five points, including the impressive outburst of the middle class, and had the offensive rebound leading to the free throw of Blackwell at the change of the UW 26-4 game to start the game.

After his career 15 points in the northwest, Gilmore showed no signs of six points and three fights in the first half and four more in the second half, Gilmore was 3-3 out of three.

Needing 121 games to reach double figures, Gilmore made it in successive games and began to become the cult hero of the student section, which serenoded him with the chanting “MVP” in the second half.

“It’s a part of how we built this team, this is part of the system we are currently and we are developing,” Gard said. “Every day they become a little more confident and a little more secure in their roles. Jilly, his experience shows him. Whether it makes threesomes or not, its experience and what it does on the floor … positively affects the game. The crowd enters it. “

5 – – The number of Indiana coaches who have not won in the center of Kohl since Bob Knight last defeated UW in Madison (1998) – Mike Woodson, Archie Miller, Tom Cryine, Kelvin Sampson and Mike Davis.

+7 – Wisconsin finished with 11 points to quickly break the four in Indiana.

+10 – Badgers are 18 points from the turnover of Indiana 8 years. Wisconsin only made six turnover, the lowest amount, as he made four against Butler on December 14th.

21 – UW’s 21 direct homes win over IU, with the second longest win of Badgers’ home at home against an opponent, behind only their active victory in a home victory against Penn State.

40 – Wisconsin has scored 40+ points in the first half in seven of the last 13 games. UW is 10-3 for this period. Badgers are already 14-3 this season when they lead to half.

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