Wisconsin Thoughts

[keefe]

Sounds like an ignorant Keefe comment.

Nightmare

I know you don't give a $hit about what this dweeb says but consider the source.

As always, your wry, biting observations on Marquette hoops are appreciated.

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_222_Men.html

Is this site for real?
They have us at 165?????

Use RPI Forecast instead. 128

[jaygall31]

So JJ and Traci were poor today and we won. Live to fight on!
JJ leaving Koenig on the 3 was just plain silly.

[warriorstrack]

Wow the Badger apologists are out in full force at the jsonline comment site, no credit ( very little ) MU mind you
http://m.jsonline.com/sports/badgers/marquette-vs-wisconsin-b99632458z1-361657311.html?page=1

Badger tears taste the best of all

[moomoo]

Wisconsin fights back to tie the game at 53. The fans are going nuts.

King Henry calmly takes the ball at the top of key, spins his way into the paint, and then goes lefty to finish with a clean basket.

Royalty.

[Mutaman]

Wisconsin fights back to tie the game at 53. The fans are going nuts.

King Henry calmly takes the ball at the top of key, spins his way into the paint, and then goes lefty to finish with a clean basket.

Royalty.

it was pretty impressive.

[mileskishnish72]

Wasn't there a movie "Vitto, Vittoria"?

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Sounds like an ignorant Keefe comment.

I don't understand.

[connie]

Wow the Badger apologists are out in full force at the jsonline comment site, no credit ( very little ) MU mind you
http://m.jsonline.com/sports/badgers/marquette-vs-wisconsin-b99632458z1-361657311.html?page=1

Badger tears taste the best of all

[The Lens]

I can't wait until Wojo starts practicing FTs. 

[chapman]

Reading JS comments, on any story, is the shortest route towards rooting for the apocalypse.

One of the greatest Twitter follows:

https://twitter.com/jscomments

[CountryRoads]

Reading JS comments, on any story, is the shortest route towards rooting for the apocalypse.

"The one point that disturbs me about MU is their willingness to accept the one and done frauds like the younger Ellenson. Nothing personally against the kid, just universities, like MU, who pretend to care about student athletes."

[MU82]

Reading JS comments, on any story, is the shortest route towards rooting for the apocalypse.

Oh, I know. But I did love this one:

<<The one point that disturbs me about MU is their willingness to accept the one and done frauds like the younger Ellenson. Nothing personally against the kid, just universities, like MU, who pretend to care about student athletes.>>

Because UW wouldn't have taken Henry if he wanted to go there. Nor did Bo go hard after Looney and Stone. Bo and his disciples hate the idea of 1-and-dones ... until they actually succeed at landing one.

[MU82]

Wojo and staff had a great game plan today.

Wait ... this is impossible. Several Scoopers fired Wojo after the Iowa game.

[Earl Tatum]

BO SUCKS! THINK ALSO, WOJO'S STAFF HAD GREAT GAME PLAN LIKE MENTIONED.
WON A BOTTLE OF SHECKELMAN'S SCOTCH. THANKS GUYS.

[tower912]

Only played 7 today.   The rest of the cupcake season should be devoted to getting the bench ready to contribute.   I worry about too many players playing 35 a game. 

[brandx]

Only played 7 today.   The rest of the cupcake season should be devoted to getting the bench ready to contribute.   I worry about too many players playing 35 a game.

They're 19 - 21 years old. At home they play for hours every day. Now, they play twice a week.

How many days in a row did Kemba do it?

[Goose]

My biggest takeaway was we are the better team IMO. Been awhile since I thought we had better squad. Never felt we were going to lose the game for the first few minutes on.

[mu_hilltopper]

Always good to beat Wisconsin, especially in their place.

I think they have 11 non-conference losses there in the Bo era, and I swear we have like 4 of those but I'm not sure.

Close .. 3.  Not bad.

http://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/men_s_basketball:uw-madison?s[]=wisconsin

[wadesworld]

Box Score
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400827761

What that shows me is that pretty much everyone played within themselves.  Hank was the only player to shoot under 50% on the game.  That is outstanding.

[Dr. Blackheart]

17-2 on fast break points.  Nice to see a MU team looking to run opportunistically off of defense.

Points in the paint + FTM = 42-17  in MU's favor.  Great, great defensive effort.

Thought the long break in play to fix the shot clock cooled MU off.  That was at the same basket in that game a couple of years ago when the basket and overhead clocks were misaligned.  Buy some new cables, please.

Great environment, great to see a sullen Badger crowd.  The beer tasted colder, post game.

[warriorstrack]

Use RPI Forecast instead. 128

http://kenpom.com/
I like this one, 67

[MU82]

They're 19 - 21 years old. At home they play for hours every day. Now, they play twice a week.

How many days in a row did Kemba do it?

Bobby Knight used to say something similar (when he wasn't choking guys or throwing chairs).

I can't remember his exact quote, but it was something along the lines of "If 19-22 year olds can't handle playing in 4-minute bursts between 2 1/2-minute TV timeouts, they should find another sport."

[Herman Cain]

Lumping JJJ in with Traci today is like me comparing Michael jordan and Mark Madsen.

JJJ played some great D on Hayes. Made some nice buckets and few good feeds and Hayes got all the no calls.

He wasn't great but you act like he almost lost us the game by playing.

I agree with this analysis. JJJ made a lot of very important contributions to our win today. In fact without those contributions a victory would have been much more difficult. He made some nice drives, had some nice assists and was a quick athletic presence defensively and offensively. He did a good job on Hayes and did what Wojo asked of him.  He gave us 14 hard fought minutes.

[NotAnAlum]

I really like the commitment to going into the post and the willingness of Henry to stay down there.  That is this team's identity.  If they committed to scoring in the post and playing solid defense like they did today they will be in nearly all their conference games home and away.  I don't know if it was an adjustment the Badgers made or our guys getting tight at the end but at about the 9 minute mark of the second half we suddenly stopped going inside and of course the lead dwindled.
We've got to keep pouring it on when we have a lead.  Seems like Wojo's teams that last 2 years have gone away from what built the 2nd leads.  Got to find a way to finish particularly on the road.