March 2, 2014
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Postgame Notes
Wisconsin 71, Penn State 66
March 2, 2014
TEAM NOTES
• Wisconsin won its seventh consecutive game and improved to 24-5 overall and 11-5 in the Big Ten.
• The Badgers clinched a top-4 finish in the Big Ten for the 13th-consecutive season. That equals the longest streak of top-4 finishes in Big Ten history (Purdue had 13 straight such finishes from 1920-32).
• Wisconsin has now won 11 Big Ten games for the 11th time in 13 seasons under Bo Ryan. The school had a total of seven seasons with 11 conference wins prior to Ryan’s arrival.
• UW is now 11-2 away from home this season, including 8-2 in true road games. The Badgers’ 11 road/neutral wins is the most in program history, breaking the previous record of 10 such wins.
• The Badgers have won five straight road games, equaling the team’s longest road win streak of the modern era (UW also won five straight road games in 1998-99 and 2006-07.
• Wisconsin has won five consecutive Big Ten road games for the first time in UW modern-era history.
• Bo Ryan (155-65, .705) passed Ohio State’s Harold Olsen (154 wins) for 11th place on the Big Ten’s all-time wins list.
• Wisconsin’s 24 wins is tied as the seventh-highest single-season win total in program annals. Bo Ryan-led teams are responsible for the 10 winningest seasons in UW history.
• The Badgers scored 70 points for the 20th time on the year. UW had 14 such games all of last season.
• UW went 19-for-24 (.792) at the free throw line, including 14-for-15 in the second half. PSU was 9-for-13. The Badgers have now made as many or more FTs than their opponent has attempted in 21 of 29 games this season.
• Wisconsin held PSU to a season-low one 3-point field goal. The Nittany Lions went 1-for-13 (.077) from deep.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
• Junior Josh Gasser led Wisconsin with 15 points, going 3-for-6 from 3-point range and 4-for-5 at the free throw line.
• Senior Ben Brust finished with 14 points with 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal. He connected on 4 of 6 shots from behind the 3-point arc.
• Junior Traevon Jackson had 13 points to go with 5 assists, 1 rebound and 2 steals.
• Sophomore Sam Dekker tallied 7 points and 8 rebounds with 1 assist, 2 blocks and a steal. That snapped a string of 6 straight games scoring in double figures.
