Most college football teams circle the calendar when they face a team ranked in the Top 10.
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Sophomore Tionna Williams led the Wisconsin offense, hitting 11 kills and a.269 attack percentage with only four errors on 26 attempts.
Wisconsin is now 5-and-2 on the season and 1-and-2 in Big Ten play. “But he wanted to play and kind of battled through it. David Knevel has been off and on in the games and out of the games for I think three weeks now”.
The first set was closely contested with the teams tied at 12 points apiece, but then the Cornhuskers pulled away with a 4-point run. Biegel missed the losses to MI and Ohio State.
Wisconsin linebacker Jack Cichy is out for the rest of the season with a torn pectoral muscle. “As a competitor, it really speaks upon the character he is to not let an injury like this drag him down and bring him down”. Even when the end result was all but determined, Wisconsin didn’t crack. Backup outside linebacker Zack Baun missed the Iowa game with his own left leg injury. The reigning Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year earns her third career weekly honor and first this season.
Houston, the senior who had ceded the starting job to Hornibrook, was 4 of 6 passing for 59 yards and led the Badgers to their first touchdown.
“I think it will be great for our team and great for our league”, coach Mike Riley said. “We were going to have to get back there again and score twice, that was the thinking”. And we were preparing back-ups where need be. The teams were scoreless after one quarter, but exploded for 13 whole points in the second and the No. 10 Badgers led at halftime 7-6. A week after rushing for 365 yards, Iowa (5-3, 3-2) could only scratch out 83 yards, the ninth time in the last 14 games a team failed to break the century mark rushing. The teams began playing for the Freedom Trophy in 2014, although the trophy is hardly necessary to demonstrate the game’s value. There’s nothing to compare about that. “So we’ve got guys there that can make plays”. “You really can’t compare that offense to this offense”. Tommy Armstrong Jr. completed 17-for-31 passes for 252 yards and a touchdown. Space-eating nose tackle Olive Sagapolu (right arm) has already been ruled out for the Nebraska game, missing a second straight contest.
Their link came up past year when the two coached against each other in a game Wisconsin won 23-21 in Lincoln with a field goal in the final seconds.
The Badgers have an uphill climb to win the Big Ten West, but it’s certainly not out of the question.
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Fifth-year senior safety Leo Musso said the toughest part about hearing Cichy say he was done for the year is the fact he came back after suffering the injury and said he’d be back for Saturday’s matchup against No. 7 Nebraska.
