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WISCONSIN LOOKS TO BOUNCE BACK AT 2K CLASSIC WITH GAME AGAINST VCU ON SUNDAY
Wisconsin will take on VCU in the consolation fi nals of the 2K Classic benefi tting the Wounded Warrior Project on Sunday. The Badgers suffered a 71-61 loss to Georgetown on Friday at Madison Square Garden.

NOTES TO KNOW
1 LAST TIME OUT: Wisconsin dropped a 71-61 decision to Georgetown in Friday's semifinal game of the 2K Classic. The Badgers fell behind 9-2 early on and could never get the lead. UW pulled within 36-34 with 14:28 remaining, but the Hoyas answered with an 11-2 run to hold off the Badgers. Nigel Hayes led UW with 22 points, while Ethan Happ tallied his first double-double with 12 points and 11 boards. The Badgers owned a 40-36 rebounding edge (18 to 8 on offensive boards) but turned it over a season-high 14 times and shot just 31.7% from the field (26.3% from 3-point range).
2 HAYES SHINES ON BIG STAGE: Playing in the "World's Most Famous Arena," junior Nigel Hayes staged a big performance in the Badgers' loss to Georgetown. Hayes scored a game-high 22 points, adding 4 rebounds and 2 steals. On the season, the preseason All-Big Ten selection is averaging 16.0 ppg, 4.3 rpg and a team-high 4.0 apg.
3 HAPP DOUBLES UP: Freshman Ethan Happ tallied his fi rst-career double-double with 12 points and a careerbest 11 rebounds in 27 minutes vs. Georgetown. All of Happ's points came in the second half, including a 6-for-6 effort at the free throw line. Happ is the fi rst Badgers freshman to post a double-double since Josh Gasser recorded the school's only triple-double (10 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists) on Jan. 23, 2011.
    Happ is now averaging 10.3 points and a team-leading 7.0 rebounds per game. The last Wisconsin freshman to average at least 10.0 points per game was Alando Tucker in the 2002-03 season.
4 OWNING THE BOARDS: The Badgers have out-rebounded each of their first 4 opponents and own a +8.0 boards per game margin. On Friday vs. Georgetown, Wisconsin owned a 40-36 edge on the glass, including 18 offensive rebounds. On the year, UW has grabbed 33 more offensive rebounds than its opponents (65-32) and is averaging 16.3 offensive boards per game. That has led to an average of 16.8 second-chance points per game for the Badgers.
5 SERIES VS. VCU: Sunday's game will mark the first meeting between Wisconsin and VCU. The Badgers are 9-7 all-time against teams from the Atlantic 10 Conference. UW's last contest against a team from the A-10 was a 63-57 win over Saint Louis in the 2013 Cancun Challenge semifinals.
    The Badgers did face VCU coach Will Wade last season while he was the head coach at Chattanooga, earning an 89-45 win at the Kohl Center. In that game, Wisconsin had a 49-21 rebounding advantage and a 42-18 edge in points in the paint. The Badgers actually owned a 10-0 margin in fast break points.

NON-CON NO-CONTEST
- UW has won 29 of its last 32 regular-season, non-conference games dating back to December of 2012.
- The Badgers' loss to Western Illinois snapped a streak of 51 consecutive regular-season, nonconference wins against unranked teams. Prior to Friday, the last time UW lost to a team that was not ranked in the AP poll was a 58-51 defeat to Notre Dame at the 2010 Old Spice Classic (11/28/10).
- Under Bo Ryan (since 2001-02), UW is 144-33 (.818) in non-conference games, including a mark of 105-9 (.921) at the Kohl Center.
- Since 2003-04, Wisconsin is 87-4 (.967) vs. unranked non-con opponents, the 5th-highest win percentage in the nation over that span.
- Ryan's teams are 88-3 (.967) at the Kohl Center against teams outside of the 6 major conferences. The loss to WIU snapped UW's streak of 60 straight wins vs. teams outside the power 6.

2015-16 TEAM INFO
Starters Returning/Lost: 2/3  |  Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 9/5 
- Wisconsin looks to replace five of the top seven scorers from a year ago, but does return a pair of starters in juniors Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig. Overall, the Badgers bring back 38.1% of their minutes played from last season. UW will bring back 34.3% of its scoring, 31.5% of its rebounding and 40.5% of their assists.
- The 2015-16 season will mark the first year under Bo Ryan in which the Badgers do not have a scholarship senior. The only senior on the roster is walk-on guard Jordan Smith. Wisconsin has had at least one senior starter in each of Ryan's first 14 seasons in Madison. In fact, the Badgers have started at least two seniors in 10 of those 14 seasons.
- UW returns four players from last season's nine-man rotation:
FRONTCOURT: 
    Nigel Hayes, Jr., F (12.4 ppg, 6.2 rpg) - Third-team All-Big Ten; 9th in Big Ten shooting 49.7% overall and 3rd on UW shooting 39.6% from 3s; 4 career double-doubles
    Vitto Brown, Jr., F (2.8 ppg, 1.5 rpg) - Played in 34 games as a soph. averaging 6.3 mpg
BACKCOURT
    Bronson Koenig, Jr., G (8.7 ppg, 2.5 apg) - Started final 24 games; 4th on the team in points and 2nd in assists; 2nd on team shooting 40.5% on 3s; 3.0 assist-to-TO Ratio
    Zak Showalter, Jr., G (2.1 ppg, 1.3 rpg) - Redshirt junior averaged 7.6 minutes off the bench; career-high 9 points vs. Indiana (Feb. 3, 2015)
- The Badgers will gain the services of redshirt freshmen Ethan Happ and T.J. Schlundt in 2014- 15, who both redshirted in their first year on campus. UW will also add five true freshmen to their roster in 2015-16, Alex Illikainen (Grand Rapids, Minn.), Khalil Iverson (Delaware, Ohio), Brevin Pritzl (De Pere, Wis.), Charlie Thomas (Highland, Md.), Andy Van Vliet (Brasschaat, Belgium).

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ALL-BIG TEN DUO: HAYES, KOENIG
A pair of Badgers were named to the 2015-16 Preseason All-Big Ten Team, as Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig were each selected by a vote of the league's media. This is the second consecutive season Wisconsin has had a pair selected to the conference's preseason team as Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker earned the distinction last year.
- Hayes and Koenig were also named to watch lists for the Julius Erving Award and Bob Cousy Award, respectively, as announced by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
    Each watch list contains the top 20 players at its position, as the Julius Erving Award recognizes the top small forward in the nation and the Bob Cousy Award recognizes the top point guard in the country.
    Dekker was a finalist for the Erving Award last season. Jordan Taylor (2012) was UW's last finalist for the Cousy Award.
- Junior Nigel Hayes was named a preseason All-American by The Sporting News and finished 9th in the AP preseason All-American balloting.

YOUTH BEING SERVED
The 2015-16 Badgers are the youngest in Bo Ryan's 15 seasons. No school in the country has more freshmen on its roster than Wisconsin (8). Cornell and UTEP are the only other schools with 8 freshmen.
- Redshirt freshman Ethan Happ became just the 3rd freshman to start the season opener under Bo Ryan, joining Devin Harris (2001) and George Marshall (2012). Happ is seeing 18.5 mpg, averaging 6.0 ppg and 5.0 rpg shooting 55.6% from the field.
- True freshmen Khalil Iverson and Charlie Thomas have each seen extensive action off the Badgers' bench. Both newcomers are averaging 6.0 ppg and 5.0 rpg. Iverson also leads the Badgers with 4 blocks, 3 steals and 7 off. rebounds in 2 games.
- UW's other scholarship freshmen Alex Illikainen and Brevin Pritzl made their debuts Sunday vs. Siena. Illikainen chipped in 6 points in 7 minutes. Andy Van Vliet (ineligible) has yet to see action

HAYES FOR DAYS
- After earning 2014 Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year, Nigel Hayes expanded his game in 2015 and was rewarded with third-team All-Big Ten honors. 
    Now Hayes enters his junior season as a preseason All-American and the focal point of Wisconsin's offense.
- Last season, Hayes fi nished 3rd on the team in points (12.4) and ranked 13th in the Big Ten with 6.2 rebounds per game. He led UW in steals (34) and was 3rd in blocks (16).
    Hayes ranked 9th in the Big Ten shooting 49.7% from the fi eld and shot 39.6%, which ranked 13th in the Big Ten.
- The junior made great strides in 3 areas in particular: rebounding, 3FG% and FT%.
- Hayes has scored in double fi gures 44 times in his career, including 30 of 40 games last season. Hayes posted a career-high 25 points vs. Green Bay a year ago and owns 4 career double-doubles.
- The Toledo, Ohio, native continued his penchant for getting to the free throw line. As a freshman, Hayes was 2nd on the team with 164 FTAs. Last season, he was again 2nd on UW in both FTAs and made FTs, going 125-for-168 (.744).

KOENIG ON POINT
- When Traveon Jackson went down with a foot injury at Rutgers on Jan. 11, 2015, Bronson Koenig took over the starting point guard role for the Badgers and flourished in the new role.
    Now a junior, the preseason All-Big Ten pick is the unquestioned lead guard at Wisconsin.
- Last season, Koenig ranked 4th on the Badgers averaging 8.7 points per game and 2nd on the team with 2.5 assists per game. 
    Koenig connected on 40.5% of his 3-point attempts (62-153), good for 12th in the Big Ten.
- In 2014-15, Koenig had 98 assists to just 33 turnovers. His 2.97 assist-to-turnover ratio was tops among Big Ten players with at least 75 assists 
- In 24 games as the Badgers' starting point guard, Koenig averaged 11.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. He also went 50-for-113 (44.2%) from 3-point range over those 24 games.
- Koenig turned the ball over just 26 times in 835 minutes last season as the starting point guard (1 every 32.1 min.).
    Put another way, Koenig averaged just 1.3 turnovers per 40 minutes, the best mark of any starting point guard on a major conference team during that span.