By james art 
Visualization: No.
No.17 Wisconsin (16-4, 6-3 Big Ten) vs. Maryland (16-5, 6-4 Big Ten)
Date/time – Wednesday, January 29, 18:00
Arena – Xfinity Center (17 950)
Watch – Big Ten Network (Jason Horovitz, Robbie Humel, Andy Katz)
Radio – Badgers Radio Network (Matt Lepay and Brian Butch), Sirius 106 or 195, IHEARDRIO Flow online.
Series – Wisconsin leads 15-8 (Maryland leads 5-4 in College Park)
Last meeting – Wisconsin won, 87-56, March 14, 2024 in Minneapolis
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Betting line: Maryland -3.5
Forecast by five (Wisconsin)
Watch Player: John Tonzhe ranks seventh in the large ten with 18.0 ppg, second in the 92.5 percent foul shooting conference and is second in UW with 39.4 percent for three points goals.
Designed by five (Maryland)
Watch Player: Reese was named a player of the Associated Press of the week after two impressive road performances. After his career of 27 points and 17 struggles in the Maryland 91-70 route in the then NO.17 Illinois, Reese had 14 points and 10 struggles to win 79-78 in Indiana. Double pairs from backward give Reese nine for the season bound for most in the big ten aimed at the week.
Notes from the series
Wisconsin has a 10-6 lead in series of all time since Maryland joined the big ten in 2015, including wins in seven of the last nine matches and both matches last season.
Wisconsin is 10-5 against therapies with Greg Guard as a head coach, including a 3-3 record under Gard at College Park.
Stephen Crowl reached double figures in three of his last four games against Maryland, including 17 points in the Large Ten tournament in 2024. Max Clezmith scored 16 points in the Madison match last season.
Wisconsin notes
Wisconsin is an average of 82.5 points per game, which will be ranked third in UW history and the highest after the 86.3 PPG record school in 1970-71.
Wisconsin ranks 7th in Kenpom’s offensive efficiency nation. The 123.0 UW brand will be ranked as the second highest grade of the Kenpom era (1997), which will abandon only 129.0 brands of the national team of runner-up 2014-15.
Wisconsin plays at its fastest pace for at least 30 years according to the corrected pace of Kenpom, an average of 1.3 more than the 2021-22 team. The badgers are ranked 151st in the Nation in the tempo.
Badgers have three of the top 20 feet of shooters on the big ten (min. 50 feet) in John Tonzhe (2, 92.5 percent), Max Clessmith (10th, 86.3) and John Blackwell (17 -17 – You, 82.6). Each of the best UW goals shoots over 80 percent of the line.
Wisconsin is an average of 15.3 assists per match (most from 1993-94) and 10.4 turnover per match (fourth lowest in the big ten). With a ratio of 1.47 assist to turnover, Badgers have their third best A-to-to-season ratio, behind only the 2014-15 (1.70) team and the 2010-11 team (1.71).
Merland notes
Maryland has won three straight games, five of their last six and has a pair of wins from the top 25. Terps also enter Wednesday with a record of 12-1 at home, winning nine consecutive games. The Terps are ranked No. 19 in NCAA NET, No. 21 in Kenpom ratings, No. 15 in the Torvik ranking, and No. 12 of Evanmiya.com.
Maryland is an average of 83.4 points per match, which will be his best average season from 2001-02 (85.0 ppg). For the whole season, Maryland is on average only over 80 points three times from 2000-01.
The Maryland is an average of 8.2 triples per game, on the track is the best average for the one-season season in the history of the school. This is a significant improvement from last season, when Maryland made only 6.1 triples per game.
During 21 games this season, Maryland has five different players, scoring 20 plus points in one game, most for the 2015-16 program. Overall, the Terps had 22 20-point efforts.
Maryland shares the ball significantly better than before the season, an average of 15.5 assists per match, which is almost five more per game than in 2023-24. This is currently at the pace to be the highest average aid from 2010-11 (16.9). Maryland has seven matches with at least 17 assistants, including three with 25+ assists.
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