Indiana upset: Wisconsin Wins!
12 min left, Badgers up 8. Serious Big ten championship implications in this game, also a win that could help push the badgers off the bubble and into the tourney.
EDIT: Wisconsin wins 64-59. Big upset. as a (Blue)Badger, I'm pretty happy about it.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:05 PM ^
Wisconsin has owned Indiana. 10 straight including four at Assembly Hall so it is an upset but Wisconsin had confidence going into this game.
I do think this is good for us.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:24 PM ^
Yeah I think it's impressive that the Badgers took them down in Assembly Hall again. Usually it's tough to win in Madison.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:05 PM ^
January 15th, 2013 at 11:05 PM ^
I just logged on to say how much I am thoroughly enjoying Wisc beating IU
Makes me feel so much better than I did Sunday afternoon, aah good times are back
January 15th, 2013 at 11:06 PM ^
Carrot top coming through down the stretch on both ends of the court. No easy feat winning a game in Assembly, brutal brutal brutal conference this B1G is.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:09 PM ^
Question of the day:
Does Brian start agreeing a little more with KenPom about Wisconsin?
January 15th, 2013 at 11:10 PM ^
minimum for B1G Champion? Looks like it
January 15th, 2013 at 11:10 PM ^
Easily the most impressive victory recorded in B1G league play so far. Wisconsin looks legit.
Now we have a chance to deliver a statement of our own on the road in two days.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:15 PM ^
A win Thurs for Mich would be so huge in the grand scheme of things.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:24 PM ^
should have pressed more. the wisky guard play seems a bit shaky to me.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:12 PM ^
Kenpom'd
January 15th, 2013 at 11:14 PM ^
Wisconsin sucks.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:19 PM ^
Tom Crean is a douche and a weirdo.
January 16th, 2013 at 12:41 AM ^
handshake. No class at all, shake the man's hand and tell him his team played well.
January 16th, 2013 at 10:07 AM ^
Crean also made Tubby Smith wait a bit before doing the handshake line after the IU/Minn game. Tubby started to walk over but didn't see Crean, as the IU coach was squatted down on his sideline, I guess getting a few quick reps in. You could see easily that Tubby was confused as he looked around back at his sideline, probably wondering, "Where the hell is this guy?"
January 15th, 2013 at 11:25 PM ^
January 15th, 2013 at 11:31 PM ^
Wow. That is a murderous schedule. 8/10 games vs. ranked teams, and the other 2 against Iowa (a decent/bubble team). It doesn't get any harder than that anywhere.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:38 PM ^
love for IU BBall on here.
As a fan that goes back to the early 70's, Indiana BBall is to Mich what ohio is to Mich in football. Do not like Hoosiers and neither should any of you....but I'm sure they are nice people, even tho they got a coach who is one weird cat!
January 16th, 2013 at 1:14 AM ^
January 16th, 2013 at 2:09 AM ^
It says a lot about how much you love U-M to still be the fan you are, still have a hard time with the Hoosiers, respect the program but Crean needs to work on his act, not cool too often
January 16th, 2013 at 2:35 AM ^
As an IU student who already checks this blog in between every class, it's pretty cool seeing IU basketball mentioned a lot, so I won't complain.
January 16th, 2013 at 12:52 AM ^
The plot thickens!
January 16th, 2013 at 6:43 AM ^
One of the stats of the game had to be Indiana - rather uncharateristically - managing an overall FG% under 40% (37%, as I recall, in the final line). They've shot over 50% in five of their last six, the sole exception recently being their game against Iowa, when they sat around 40%
January 16th, 2013 at 7:49 AM ^
I hate watching Wisconsin. A bunch of tall ugly guys with bad haircuts who look like they just got through milking cows. Every point goes 34 seconds after more passes than I can count.
I hope we have one of our hot nights when we play them. IU ended up playing Wiscy's game all evening and it cost them big.
January 16th, 2013 at 8:23 AM ^
...is not milking cows in the morning before practice.
You gotta give Bo Ryan tons of credit. He "milks" everything from his players and grabs players that fit his offensive (and defensive) scheme so well. Every year I think "this is the year the Badgers will suck". Hell, they lost their starting PG and best defensive player in fall practice. And they still have enough to crush Illinois and steal one from IU at Assembly Hall. Consider me impressed.
January 16th, 2013 at 9:35 AM ^
January 16th, 2013 at 11:19 AM ^
If Indiana is indeed our main competition for the title, this is great news, but now it's starting to look like more of a free-for-all, and we have to consider Wisconsin a possible contender now. They've beaten IU on the road and don't play us at Crisler.
January 16th, 2013 at 12:39 PM ^
Seems to me that Big Ten teams are going to be very battle tested come tournament time. It sucks to pick up a loss right around now, but in the grand scheme of things what would you rather have: a 1-2 loss season against an easy conference and then flop during tournament time, or a 4-5 loss season against stellar competition and a deep tournament run.
Of course, that's a gross simplification, but I don't think that any loss in the Big Ten is a particularly bad one (except maybe to Nebraska or PSU).
January 16th, 2013 at 1:02 PM ^
Last night's game was an IRL reenactment of this: