Andrew Sturtz, known most for his goal scoring prowess, looked like a playmaking magician early on in the first period.
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Though Harris played just eight seconds as he rested with season-ending knee surgery, there was a different energy in the building for his senior night. On his back, Ebbing passed to Taro Hirose, who fed Holland, who one-timed it past Penn State goaltender Peyton Jones. The goal was the second of three in a row in the period for Penn State as they erased a 2-1 Spartan lead.
But that didn’t last either.
Will the Spartans be able to send the three seniors out on the right note and will it be Bridges’ final home game in a Spartan uniform? “It was just one of those games where there didn’t seem to be a lot of flow either way”.
But then Berger tied the game. The Badgers ended the half on a 9-0 run while the Spartans went scoreless in the last 3:34 and shot 1-for-7 in their last shots from the field.
But fans and players didn’t take a breath again until the clock hit 30 seconds remaining and captain David Goodwin found an empty net, and with it a sigh of relief.
And that really was that. The Badgers went 13-for-25 from the line (52 percent), the ninth game this season the Badgers shot 60 percent or less than the line, and missed the front end of three bonus situations. “But I give our guys credit”.
The Wisconsin Badgers and Michigan State Spartans meet Sunday in college basketball action at the Breslin Center. That being said, three other players that combined for almost 25 minutes on Sunday had zero shot attempts, and only scored one point. “We’ve just got to take care of as much of our business as we can and see where that takes us”. The Spartans were slotted as No. 10 seeds in recent ESPN, CBSsports.com and USA Today projections, putting them at the back end of at-large bid candidates. “Specials teams goes their way and it was the difference in the game”.
Nigel Hayes led the Badgers with 22 points and 11 rebounds.
The Badgers will host Iowa on Thursday and Minnesota on Sunday to wrap up the Big Ten season. With time running out in the power-play, Dylan Richard got a goal and 3-2 lead for the Lions.
It’s been 13 years. Allen had both goals for the Wolverines. The Badgers are 0-4 ATS in the last 4 meetings in Michigan St and 2-9 ATS in the last 11 meetings overall.
The Badgers (22-7, 11-5) were attempting to move into a first-place tie in the Big Ten standings with Purdue, but instead fell behind by a game thanks to an inspired Michigan State team wanting badly to extend its streak of NCAA tournament appearances to 20.
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Five minutes into the second frame, Syracuse’s Savannah Rennie scored the first goal of the game – her seventh of the year. That score held into the final twenty minutes of play. Wisconsin as a team shot 42.9 percent from the free-throw line in the first half, below its season average of 66.5 percent while MSU shot above its average, at 75 percent for the half.
