Offense: C
Wisconsin was able to lead throughout the game against Northwestern but their offensive showing wasn’t always pretty.
It appeared like Wisconsin was going to have another impressive offensive performance considering the Badgers jumped out to a quick 11-3 lead as they made their first four field goal attempts. Not to mention the Badgers made their first six of seven field goal attempts to give themselves a 16-5 lead.
But the Badgers did go through two scoring droughts one in each half as after Wisconsin’s strong start to the game they then missed their next five shots from the field.
Wisconsin also suffered through a lengthy scoring drought that occurred in the second half. Wisconsin was able to go into halftime up six and was able to extend their lead back to double digits over the first four minutes of the second half.
But after Brevin Pritzl’s made three with 15:56 to go in the game the Badgers didn’t make their next field goal until the 8:58 mark when Micah Potter was able to follow a missed layup by D’Mitrik Trice with a layup of his own.
In that close to 10 minutes without a field goal, the Badgers could only muster two points thanks to Aleem Ford knocking down a pair of free throws as the Badgers missed 12 straight shots.
Although the Badgers had their struggles to consistently find the bottom of the net they did receive a variety of scorers as nine different players for Wisconsin scored.
The Badgers were led in scoring by Nate Reuvers with 11 points on 4-for-9 shooting from the field as he was the only player to reach double figures. Wisconsin also had five different players score at least eight points and four of the five scored nine points.
Pritzl, Potter, Ford, and Brad Davison each had nine points and Trice finished the game with eight points. Overall Wisconsin finished the game shooting 23-for-59 (39 percent) from the field.