Wisconsin basketball lost in blowout fashion at the hands of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights yesterday afternoon.
The loss is the Badgers’ fourth straight and drops them to 16-8 on the season and 8-5 in Big Ten play.
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This may sound like a broken record, but Wisconsin entered the month of February ranked No. 6 in the nation and in first place in the Big Ten with a 16-4 (8-1 Big Ten) record.
Not only is the team now 16-8 (8-5 Big Ten), but it is a full three games behind first-place Purdue, down to No. 18 in KenPom and set to continue its slide in the AP Poll.
Things are not right at the moment and yesterday’s performance at Rutgers seemed to accentuate all of the team’s issues. Here are takeaways from the blowout loss: