It’s closing time for Wisconsin basketball as the Badgers get ready for a grueling final stretch of the regular season.
The No. 21 Badgers will play host to Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa over the next two weeks, with everything starting this Sunday afternoon at the Kohl Center. Wisconsin welcomes a Michigan team that handed this group of seniors one of the worst losses of their time in Madison just over a month ago.
January 12 in Ann Arbor was a day that this Badger team would preferably never speak of again. They help the nation forget about it with redemption tomorrow afternoon.
The 77-54 Michigan beatdown meant that this return leg would be circled on Wisconsin’s schedule. The factor that nobody could have predicted? This is Michigan’s first game in almost a month after a COVID-19 pause.
Expect some rust from the 13-1 Wolverines after time off, but the Badgers will have to play their most complete game of the year on Sunday to even up the season series. While taking into account how Wisconsin was blown out last month and how the Badgers have found success this year, here are five keys to victory for UW tomorrow: