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How to watch Wisconsin basketball vs. Louisville

In a rescheduled game from the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, the No. 12-ranked Wisconsin Badgers will host the No. 23-ranked Louisville Cardinal…

In a rescheduled game from the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, the No. 12-ranked Wisconsin Badgers will host the No. 23-ranked Louisville Cardinals at the Kohl Center on Saturday.

Related: Breaking: Wisconsin basketball vs. Louisville is back on this week

Wisconsin has played extremely well following their heartbreaking loss to the Marquette Golden Eagles, with two solid wins against Rhode Island and Loyola-Chicago. Micah Potter has emerged as a star for this Badgers’ team, leading Wisconsin in both points and rebounds. Potter has averaged 12.8 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 1.7 assists a game this season, including an outstanding 54.3 average field goal percentage on the season. Wisconsin will look to keep rolling against the Cardinals.

Dec 9, 2020; Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Wisconsin Badgers forward Micah Potter (11) looks to shoot over Rhode Island Rams center Makhi Mitchell (21) at the Kohl Center. Mandatory Credit: Mary Langenfeld-USA TODAY Sports

The initial matchup between the teams on Dec. 9 was postponed because of positive cases for COVID-19 on the Cardinals. The Louisville outbreak forced them to cancel their matchup against UNC-Greensboro, and an outbreak on North Carolina State forced the matchup against the Cardinals to be postponed.

Despite their struggles with COVID-19, the Louisville Cardinals are 4-0 so far this season including a close win against Seton Hall. They are led by guard Carlik Jones, who is averaging 17.3 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 5.3 assists a game this season. Louisville will be an important early-season test for the Badgers before they enter their Big Ten schedule next week.

Here is how to watch Wisconsin basketball’s game against the Louisville Cardinals tomorrow.

How to watch:

Matchup: Louisville Cardinals at Wisconsin Badgers

Where: Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.

When: Dec. 19, 2020 at 11:00 AM CST

Where to watch: ESPN 2

  • Announcers:
    • Play-by-Play: Dan Shulman
    • Analyst: Jay Bilas

Where to stream: ESPN app or online at ESPN.com/Watch

Where to listen: Badger Sports Network on the iHeartRadio app, or Satellite on Sirius XM

  • Announcers:
    • Play-by-Play: Matt Lepay
    • Analyst: Mike Lucas

Breaking: Wisconsin basketball vs. Louisville is back on this week

The Badgers now have two games this week

After an initial cancelation of Wisconsin’s Big Ten/ACC challenge matchup with Louisville due to COVID-19 positives within the Louisville program, the game is back on.

A battle of top-25 teams will take place this Saturday at the Kohl Center, when the Cardinals travel to face the Badgers.

No. 12 Wisconsin and undefeated No. 23 Louisville will face off at 11 AM CT. Why the early tip? Paul Bunyan’s Axe will be up for grabs later in the day when Wisconsin football greets Minnesota at 3 PM CT.

Louisville will enter the Kohl Center at 4-0, with quality wins over a talented Western Kentucky team and Seton Hall. They Cardinals haven’t played since December 1 due to COVID-19 complications, so it will be interesting to see how head coach Chris Mack and crew respond to the long layoff.

Wisconsin basketball now has two games scheduled for this week, with Loyola-Chicago coming to the Kohl Center on Tuesday night.

Wisconsin F Nate Reuvers ties Ethan Happ for most blocks in program history

In the first half of the No. 4-ranked Wisconsin Badgers’ matchup against the Marquette Golden Eagles, forward Nate Reuvers tied Ethan Hap…

In the first half of the No. 4-ranked Wisconsin Badgers’ matchup against the Marquette Golden Eagles, forward Nate Reuvers tied Ethan Happ for the most blocks in Wisconsin basketball history.

Reuvers needed two blocks going into this game to tie Ethan Happ’s record at 154 blocks, and he was able to accomplish this goal only ten minutes into the first half against the Golden Eagles. Through the first three games of the season, Reuvers is averaging 2.7 blocks and 15 points a game. Wisconsin has struggled early on against Marquette, and this game has turned into a physical defensive battle with Nate Reuvers, Micah Potter, and Brad Davison all having two fouls in the first half.

Micah Potter is leading Wisconsin with seven points and three rebounds, while forward Justin Lewis is leading Marquette with seven points, two rebounds, and a block. Wisconsin is tied 27-27 with the Golden Eagles late in the first half.

Stay tuned to Badgers Wire for continued updates.

How to watch Wisconsin basketball vs. UW-Green Bay

The No. 4-ranked Wisconsin Badgers will be playing late tomorrow afternoon at the Kohl Center against the UW-Green Bay Phoenix. The Badge…

The No. 4-ranked Wisconsin Badgers will be playing late tomorrow afternoon at the Kohl Center against the UW-Green Bay Phoenix. The Badgers went undefeated in their opening week of play, beating the Eastern Illinois Panthers and Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions by extremely large margins.

Related: A look ahead at the week for Wisconsin basketball

The Badgers are one of the hottest teams in college basketball right now, along with several other Big Ten schools including No. 3-ranked Iowa and No. 5-ranked Illinois. Forward Micah Potter also seems to have taken the next step forward this season, with a phenomenal 19 points, five rebounds, three assists, and three steals against Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

Nov 27, 2020; Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Wisconsin Badgers forward Micah Potter (11) drives against Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions forward Markedric Bell (right) at the Kohl Center. Mandatory Credit: Mary Langenfeld-USA TODAY Sports

Green Bay lost its first game of the season against the Minnesota Golden Gophers 99-69, but the Phoenix will be a much tougher opponent than the Panthers or Golden Lions were last week. UW-Green Bay is led by head coach Will Ryan this season, son of legendary Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan.

Here is how to watch tomorrow’s game against the UW-Green Bay Phoenix:

How to watch:

Matchup: No. 4 Wisconsin Badgers vs. UW-Green Bay Phoenix

Where: Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.

When: Dec. 1, 2020 at 4 p.m. CST

Where to watch: Big Ten Network

Announcers: 

  • Play-by-Play: Jeff Levering
  • Analyst: Brian Butch

Where to stream: The FOX Sports Go app or online at foxsportsgo.com

Where to listen: Badger Sports Network on the iHeartRadio app or Sirius Satellite Radio 196

Announcers: 

  • Play-by-Play: Matt Lepay
  • Analyst: Mike Lucas

WATCH: Aleem Ford drains three-pointer in 25-point unanswered Wisconsin run

In the No.7 Wisconsin Badgers Friday night matchup against the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions, the Badgers started the game on an insan…

In the No.7 Wisconsin Badgers Friday night matchup against the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions, the Badgers started the game on an insane 25-0 run.

This effort was led by Aleem Ford who had eight points, a rebound, and an assist in the first ten minutes of the first half. These points came off of two three-pointers and a layup. Micah Potter also contributed significantly to the run with five points, two steals, two assists, and a rebound.

Wisconsin has looked phenomenal in the first half of the game, leading 53-19 against the Southwestern Athletic Conference Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions at halftime. This game has allowed many key freshmen to get minutes early on, with Jonathan Davis, Ben Carlson, and Steven Crowl all getting significant minutes in the first half.

Stay tuned to Badgers Wire for continued updates.

Wisconsin basketball’s toughest non-conference opponent is not who you think it is

The Badgers have a tough mid-major on the schedule

With the recent release of Wisconsin basketball’s non-conference schedule, Badger fans have a look at the entire picture for UW in 2020-2021. While 2020 may bring unexpected cancellations and scheduling, Wisconsin currently has a number of intriguing opponents on the 2020-2021 non-conference slate.

The Badgers are slated to take on Eastern Illinois on Wednesday, with games at Arkansas Pine-Bluff, Green Bay, Marquette, Louisville, and Northern Iowa rounding out the non-conference group. So, your first thought might be that Marquette or ACC opponent Louisville is the toughest game on this schedule. Let me make a case for a mid-major program that has been a constant postseason force for the past decade in college basketball.

Seeing Northern Iowa on the schedule likely looks like an easy buy game win to most casual college basketball fans. It will be anything but that when the Wisconsin welcomes the Panthers to Madison on December 16.

Northern Iowa is coming off of a tremendous 25-6 season in the Missouri Valley Conference, and would have been a force come March of last year. Better yet for head coach Ben Jacobson and the Panthers is that they return their three leading scorers in sharpshooter AJ Green, Trae Berhow, and Austin Phyfe. The trio combined for over 43 points per game a year ago and led the Panthers to a 14-4 conference record.

The matchup of a highly-efficient Panther offense and a Badger defense that is expected to be at the top of the country highlights this one. The Panthers shot 38.6% from distance a year ago, led by Pepperdine transfer Trae Berhow and a Green, who blossomed into one of the best scorers in the nation.

Phyfe can give Wisconsin’s bigs issues with his combination of size and skill, as he is a true playmaker at 6-foot-9, 235. Expect a three-point barrage at the Kohl Center that could turn Madison into upset city.

Wisconsin tips off the season this Wednesday against Eastern Illinois at 9 PM central in Madison.

Projecting Wisconsin basketball’s 2020-2021 rotation

Somehow, college basketball season is rapidly approaching. Although there will be many changes to a strange non-conference schedule for teams all around the country, Wisconsin does have a series of games locked in before they begin conference play. …

Somehow, college basketball season is rapidly approaching. Although there will be many changes to a strange non-conference schedule for teams all around the country, Wisconsin does have a series of games locked in before they begin conference play. That all starts this Wednesday at home against a familiar opponent in Eastern Illinois, a team the Badgers beat last season in their home opener.

If there is one key difference for a Wisconsin team that opens at No. 7 (AP Poll) in the nation, it comes in their depth. Greg Gard’s squad only went eight deep in last year’s remarkable Big Ten championship run. This season, the Badgers boast a roster that could legitimately go ten or eleven men deep and find themselves making a deep postseason run. The senior leadership mixed in with a talented freshman class creates a dynamic that the Badgers feel can take them to the highest of heights in 2020.

Here is a look at Wisconsin’s likely rotation come Wednesday, and a little about what each of those pieces bring to the team:

The KenPom preseason rankings have the Badgers in the nation’s top 10

Of all the college basketball rankings, polls and analysis, there is one that accurately predicts future production with advanced…

Of all the college basketball rankings, polls and analysis, there is one that accurately predicts future production with advanced statistics and metrice. It is Ken Pomeroy’s KenPom rankings.

Last night those rankings were released for the 2020-2021 college basketball season and coming in at No. 7 in the nation are the Wisconsin Badgers.

From KenPom.com, the ratings are “designed to be purely predictive” and use advanced metrics to predict each team’s offensive production, defensive production, strength of schedule and more.

Related: Here is how Wisconsin football can still make the Big Ten Championship game

The recently-released rankings have Greg Gard’s team as the best team in the Big Ten, with Ohio State, Iowa, Michigan State, Michigan, Illinois and Purdue also making the Top 25.

The Badgers, coming off a shared regular-season Big Ten title, return their entire core from last season and, if national rankings and polls are any indication, are in for another successful season.

 

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Wisconsin basketball is drawing inspiration from the best conditioned NBA team in the league

This preseason, the focus for the Badgers has been on their conditioning

It has felt like an accepted truth around the NBA over the past decade that the Miami Heat conditioning program is on another level. It isn’t fancy, it isn’t based on futuristic machines or wild advanced stats. Instead, it goes back to the basics, but at a level that most NBA teams would never think of pushing themselves to.

In a piece earlier this postseason, with the Heat making a run to the finals, ESPN NBA senior writer Brian Windhorst gave us an inside glimpse at the drill that has made Miami’s conditioning as notorious as it is:

“In his first moment in the spotlight as a member of the Miami Heat last fall, Jimmy Butler failed.

It was the rigorous conditioning test the Heat put players through before training camp that is legend within the league. Some athletic trainers claim it’s the most demanding such test in all of the NBA or NFL.  To be admitted to training camp, a player has to run the length of the court 10 times in under a minute. Then two minutes recovery. Then again. Two minutes recovery. Then again. And again. And again.”

Even Jimmy Butler, arguably the fiercest competitor in the league could not handle the infamous sprints. So, what did Greg Gard and Wisconsin basketball want to do in order to get ready for an unprecedented season? Learn from the best in the game, and take their conditioning to a whole new Miami-approved level.

Yesterday in Wednesday’s press conference, senior forward Micah Potter noted the different level of preseason conditioning that Wisconsin has been doing this season. One of the toughest drills came straight from the Miami Heat playbook.

Potter said they had been participating in the “Miami Drill,” the same court sprints within a minute that the Heat do every year at the beginning of training camp as an entrance exam. “It’s a dog,” said Potter. “It’s tough.”

Wisconsin is trying to be the best conditioned team in the country, and turning towards arguably the toughest conditioning program in all of sports as their inspiration.

 

LOOK: Wisconsin men’s basketball receives their Big Ten championship rings

It was 220 days ago that the Wisconsin men’s basketball team played their final game of the 2019-20 regular season, a 60-56 victory over…

It was 220 days ago that the Wisconsin men’s basketball team played their final game of the 2019-20 regular season, a 60-56 victory over Indiana that cemented themselves as co-Big Ten Champions.

We all remember what followed that game with COVID-19 striking the country, as five days later on March 12 the Big Ten Tournament was canceled and five days after that on March 17 the NCAA Tournament followed suit.

Related: Opinion: Tyler Herro went to Kentucky and it was the right decision

Well, yesterday the Badgers’ memorable 2019-20 season was finally commemorated as the team and the coaching staff received their Big Ten championship rings.

The rings include “Do Moore, Be Moore, 4 Moore” for assistant coach Howard Moore after he faced tragedy earlier in the year, each player’s name and number, a Badger logo and a simple sentence: “2020 Big Ten Champs.”

Head Coach Greg Gard spoke recently about receiving the rings, saying “There is more out there for you to get. So this goes on the shelf and now we chase what’s next.”

D’Mitrik Trice echoed that statement in a Tweet showing off the new ring.

The Badgers will be back in action in late November as they look to hold their No. 1 spot in the conference and capitalize on a chance to have Micah Potter’s services for a full year and on their opportunity to play postseason basketball.