The Badgers are the eighth seed in the tournament and legitimately have a chance to hang with Villanova if they are able to win this one here over the Hokies.
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Or from reaching the second round at all. The Badgers lost to MI in the finals of the Big Ten Tournament on Sunday.
In truth, the collection of free-floating number and figures contained inside Williams’ cranium confused Gard, who was in his first season as the associate head coach at Wisconsin under Bo Ryan at the time. “Specifically offensively. That’s where we got ourselves in a hole we couldn’t get out of”.
UVA basketball’s London Perrantes, Devon Hall and Tony Bennett discuss the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
Virginia Tech dresses seven players and only one – 6-foot-10 freshman Khadim Sy – is taller than 6-7.
Wisconsin’s offense gets stagnant at times, which was what Showalter was alluding to when he said more movement is required.
“When they’re finishing inside, hitting those shots from the perimeter and then we’re knocking down free throws, we’re tough to guard, we really are”, Moore said. “Because the only ones that are left are the ones that have had really good years”.
In case you were wondering if things could get any more confusing as to why the Badgers weren’t seeded higher, think again.
UW meets Virginia Tech, and an old nemesis in Coach Buzz Williams.
Virginia senator Tim Kaine revealed his picks for the 2017 NCAA tournament on Wednesday, and in what should come as a surprise to no one, he picked a team from the Commonwealth of Virginia to win it all.
Virginia Tech is going to win this game over Wisconsin.
Game analyst Len Elmore praised the Hokies for how hard they play.
LeDay, who played his first two seasons at South Florida before transferring, averages 16.3 points and 7.4 rebounds.
Gard was an assistant to Bo Ryan at Wisconsin-Platteville back in 1995. I’ll go with Wisconsin by about six points. While the Wisconsin Badgers fared slightly better with an #8 seed they were just as criminally underseeded as the Shockers were.
Despite the talent Wisconsin certainly has, Virginia Tech matches up quite well with them. This wasn’t a problem when the other team wasn’t shooting many threes but this year teams are shooting more AND making more threes.
“Odds are, no matter who we played, unless it was Northwestern, we were going to have more newbies”, Williams said. Virginia Tech has had trouble rebounding, as they are at a -2.1 rebounding margin for the season. Meanwhile, the Badgers’ plus-6.3 rebounding margin is 21st. The last three seasons the Badgers have been worse than over 300 other teams in the country in three-point shooting percentage.
If Outlaw runs wild against the Badgers, it could be a long day for this Wisconsin team. Instead, Wisconsin went the opening 8:08 of the second half without a field goal and averaged a meager 0.75 points per possession after halftime. But lo and behold, here came Bronson Koenig, making one of the loudest noises in the tournament. The Badgers will also get sophomore reserve Khalil Iverson back. Finally, I like the teams that URI is set to face.
Who: No. 8 Wisconsin vs.
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We’ve previewed the matchup from both sides: Jawhar Ali from Gobbler Country brought us up to speed on the Hokies before B5Q’s own Drew Hamm returned the favor with a Badgers-oriented Q&A.
