Wisconsin earned its sixth victory of the season on Saturday evening, taking down Milwaukee 83-64. Here are our top three takeaways from the game for the Badgers.
Wisconsin continues to be a completely different team at home than on the road.
If only the Badgers were able to play every game at the Kohl Center this season, we would be talking about them as one of the Big Ten’s best teams.
Wisconsin has yet to prove it can carry over its overall excellent play in Madison to a contest on the road, but last night’s performance reinforced the notion that this is a team that appears capable of beating anyone at home.
The Badgers shot 26-52 (50 percent) from the floor against Milwaukee, including 10-22 (45 percent) from three. They also were a sparkling 21-26 (80.8 percent) from the charity stripe, and only committed 9 turnovers, below their season average of 11.3. There were also some fantastic individual outings from players that Wisconsin desperately needs to step up more in order to make the NCAA Tournament.
It will be interesting to see if the Badgers can reverse the trend we have seen from them this season and carry over some of this success to Knoxville against No. 21 Tennessee next weekend.