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#19 Ohio State 77, #13 Wisconsin 67 (final)

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We need this game so much. Wisky is sitting on top the big ten right now, but they have been at home alot, which is really good to them.

I will say once again if we hit our shots we will win. Now lets just hit them.

Hopefully the schott will be rockin' on a weeknite.
 
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The weekends haven't been good to us lately. We definitely need this game if we are thinking about Big10 season champs. We know the big10 is very tough this year so we gotta win those home games, especially the close ones. Hope coach has us fired up, which I know he will and our boys come out shooting this week. If the defensive intensity stays up we'll win this one.
 
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The chance of fatigue and emotional letdown after the double overtime loss is high.

The Buckeyes need the Schott to be rockin'. They need the student body to give them massive support.:oh: :io:
 
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This game could very well make or break our season. It's still early, but losing two-straight at home and falling to 2-3 in the Big Ten, and possibly out of the Big Ten race and top 25 all-together, would definately be a confidence killer. And on top of that, we have to play @ Iowa, @ Wisconsin, and @ Michigan, plus Illinois and Minny in Columbus, all in the next month. Not exactly a cupcake month.
On the otherhand, if we beat Wisconsin on Wednesday, we would be right in the thick of things in the Big Ten race as well as jump quite a few spots in the polls, possibly even sneak into the top ten.

Now's definately the time to step it up, offensively and defensively.
 
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bucknuts44820 said:
The Big Ten is a grind, this is far from over even IF we come up short against Wisky.
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How do you figure? With our upcoming schedule, I highly doubt we'll be able to make it past February 18th without, at least, dropping one game. And I don't think we'll be able to make a serious Big Ten title run with four losses, especially with the way teams like Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan State are playing right now.
 
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1/17/06

BIG TEN BASKETBALL
Youthful Badgers block out negatives
Inexperienced players fit into Ryan’s system without much difficulty
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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It was the first Big Ten road game for Wisconsin, and the Badgers, who play five freshmen and sophomores in a nine-man rotation, had given up all of a 19-point lead at Minnesota. They trailed by a point with little more than a minute left and the Gophers had the ball.
No worries, apparently.
"Their kids aren’t thinking about losing," Minnesota coach Dan Monson said. "That’s not part of their thought process, and that’s a credit to a program.
"They’re a program of extreme confidence, and I think you see that (in them). Winning breeds confidence. . . . You just plug in the parts because they don’t know any different."
The Badgers won the game at Minnesota 64-62 last week. They are the only undefeated team in Big Ten play as they head to Value City Arena on Wednesday to catch Ohio State (12-2, 2-2) on the rebound from its disheartening, doubleovertime loss to Michigan State.
Wisconsin (14-2, 4-0) lost five of its top eight scorers and most of its experience on the interior from a team that made it to an NCAA regional final last season. It seemingly hasn’t mattered. The Badgers’ only losses have come at Wake Forest and undefeated Pittsburgh. They beat Iowa and Michigan State at home to open the Big Ten season.
The reasons for the smooth transition are many, Big Ten coaches said yesterday:

• Forward Alando Tucker is "one of the special players in our league who can singlehandedly carry a team," Iowa coach Steve Alford said. Tucker scored the go-ahead basket at Minnesota with 1:03 left and had 18 of his 22 points in the second half.

• Point guard Kammron Taylor has become a more proficient second scoring option and gives the Badgers an 85 percent free-throw shooter with the ball in his hands late in games.
"It’s Tucker and Taylor," Northwestern coach Bill Carmody said. "They make it easier on everyone else."
But it’s more than them.

• The four players getting the majority of the minutes off the bench are averaging 18.3 points. Another player who recently quit the team was chipping in another 3.3. "I don’t think there are a lot of benches in the league getting 20 points a game," Alford said.

• Though little-used before this season, sophomores Brian Butch and Greg Stiemsma and junior Jason Chappell give Wisconsin three interchangeable players 6 feet 10 or 6-11 who can block shots inside and shoot and pass outside. The Badgers already have more blocks this season (67) than all of last (62), and Butch and Chappell have 17 threepoint baskets and 62 assists between them.
Coach Bo Ryan said the younger players’ willingness to listen and learn has been the biggest key to the team’s success so far.
"They don’t feel coming in that they have all the answers," he said. "They feel if they just keep working and listening and take the lead of the upperclassmen that they can get better and the team can get better."
That might be true. But Ryan himself might be due the most credit.
"They’re very system-oriented," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. "He does a great job of integrating players into the sytem more than (adapting) the system to the players."
Ryan has won 490 games in 21 seasons as a college coach, 107 of them in less than five seasons at Wisconsin. The Badgers have won two Big Ten championships and never finished lower than third in the conference during his tenure.
"Bo just does a tremendous job," Alford said. "He’s had a lot of success as a coach, the team believes in the system and they’re playing the system extremely well."
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Wisconsin definitely has the right recipe for success. Smart young coach who instills mental toughness in his players. The will to fight through adversity and still focus is critical for young kids to be successful in any aspect of life and it carries over to the athletic arena, witnessed by the 2002 NCAA football champs and programs under Jim Tressel and Thad Matta. This game is definitely going to be a grinder. Hope the boys get all their vitamins and meals in today. Go Bucks!!
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Wisconsin definitely has the right recipe for success. Smart young coach who instills mental toughness in his players. The will to fight through adversity and still focus is critical for young kids to be successful in any aspect of life and it carries over to the athletic arena, witnessed by the 2002 NCAA football champs and programs under Jim Tressel and Thad Matta. This game is definitely going to be a grinder. Hope the boys get all their vitamins and meals in today. Go Bucks!!
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bo ryan has 21 years of head coaching experience. thats not exactly my defintion of a "young" coach.

This game could very well make or break our season. It's still early, but losing two-straight at home and falling to 2-3 in the Big Ten, and possibly out of the Big Ten race and top 25 all-together, would definately be a confidence killer. And on top of that, we have to play @ Iowa, @ Wisconsin, and @ Michigan, plus Illinois and Minny in Columbus, all in the next month. Not exactly a cupcake month.
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january is not a make or break month. a big game yes, but every big ten game is a big game. and the big ten isnt a "cupcake" any month or any year.
 
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