11/4 UW-R. Falls W, 101-46 11/13 Western Ill. L, 67-69 11/15 Siena W, 92-65 11/17 North Dakota W, 78-64 11/20 Georgetown * L, 61-71 11/22 VCU * W, 74-73 11/25 Prairie V A&M W, 85-67 11/29 Oklahoma L, 48-65 12/2 Syracuse W, 66-58 12/5 Temple 11:30am 12/9 Milwaukee 8pm 12/12 Marquette 12:30pm 12/15 TA&M CC 8pm 12/23 Green Bay 8pm 12/29 Purdue 6pm 1/2 Rutgers 1pm 1/5 Indiana 6pm 1/9 Maryland TBA 1/12 Northwestern 6pm 1/17 Michigan St. TBA 1/21 Penn State 7pm 1/26 Indiana 6pm 1/31 Illinois 6:30pm 2/4 Ohio State 6pm 2/10 Nebraska 6pm 2/13 Maryland 5pm 2/18 Michigan St 8pm 2/21 Illinois TBA 2/24 Iowa 8pm 2/28 Michigan TBA 3/2 Minnesota 8pm 3/5 Purdue TBA Key: times CT Home Game Road Game * 2K Classic Printable Schedule 0 Will Decorah Jr. G 1 Brevin Pritzl Fr. G 2 Jordan Smith R-Sr. G 3 Zak Showalter R-Jr. G 4 Matt Ferris So. G 5 Aaron Moesch R-So. F 10 Nigel Hayes Jr. F 11 Jordan Hill R-So. G 13 Jackson Bax Fr. G 15 Charlie Thomas Fr. F 20 T.J. Schlundt R-Fr. G 21 Khalil Iverson Fr. G 22 Ethan Happ R-Fr. F 24 Bronson Koenig Jr. G 25 Alex Illikainen Fr. F 30 Vitto Brown Jr. F 33 Andy Van Vliet Fr. F 35 Riley Dearring R-So. G Complete Roster Wisconsin Men's Basketball - Like the team on Facebook  - Twitter: @BadgerMBB - Instagram: @badgermbb - All-Access Media | Photos - Notes | Record Book

WISCONSIN OPENS HOMESTAND VS. TEMPLE 
After playing 4 of the last 5 games away from home, Wisconsin will begin a 7-game homestand on Saturday against Temple. The Badgers, who are coming off a 66-58 overtime win at No. 14 Syracuse, will tip off with the Owls at 11:30 a.m. (CT) on CBS.
    Up next, Wisconsin will host Milwaukee on Wednesday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. (CT) on BTN. The Badgers are 31-1 all time vs. the Panthers. .

NOTES TO KNOW
1 ALL-BIG TEN TANDEM: UW returns just 38% of its minutes played from last season, but welcomes back Wooden Award candidates Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig. Hayes, who was 9th in the AP Preseason All-American voting, has posted consecutive double-doubles with 20 pts, 11 reb. at Oklahoma and 15 pts, 12 rebs at Syracuse. He is averaging 14.9 ppg, 5.8 rpg and 4.4 apg while leading the Big Ten with 40 FTs and 56 FTAs.
2 KLUTCH KOENIG: Junior Bronson Koenig entered the season with a single-game career high of 19 points. He has already topped that twice this season, leading UW with 15.6 ppg. Against VCU in the 2K Classic, Koenig scored a game-high 22 points, including the game-winning basket with 5.9 seconds remaining.
3 MAKING IT HAPP-EN: After setting career highs with 18 points and 15 rebounds at Syracuse, freshman Ethan Happ now leads the Big Ten with 3 double-doubles on the year (also turned the trick vs. Georgetown and VCU). Happ is averaging 11.0 ppg on 52.3% shooting and ranks 2nd in the Big Ten with 8.5 rebounds per game.
4 YOUNG BLOOD: No team in the nation has more freshmen than Wisconsin (8) and a quartet of the Badgers' newcomers are having an immediate impact. Ethan Happ, Alex Illikainen, Khalil Iverson and Charlie Thomas are combining to average 21.3 points and 15.0 rebounds per game. Freshmen have played 32.0% of UW's minutes.
5 BO KNOWS: A 2015 Naismith Hall of Fame finalist, Bo Ryan ranks 9th in conference history with 172 career Big Ten wins and owns the highest Big Ten winning percentage in conference history. Overall, Ryan ranks 27th on the NCAA's all-time wins list with a record of 745-231 (.763), just 1 win short of tying the legendary Phog Allen (746).
6 HOME SWEET HOME: Wisconsin owns one of the best home records in all of college basketball. In 15 seasons under Bo Ryan, the Badgers have amassed a 213-23 (.903) record at home, the 4th-best winning percentage in the country over that span. Ryan's Badgers are 107-9 (.922) at home in non-conference play.
7 BOARDING: UW has out-rebounded all 8 of its opponents and leads the Big Ten with 15.6 off. boards per game.

NOTES FROM UW'S LAST GAME
UW 66, #14 SU 58 (OT) - 12/2/15 - Syracuse, N.Y.
-  In a game that featured 10 ties and 7 lead changes, the Badgers pulled out a 66-58 overtime road win at Syracuse Wednesday in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
- The Badgers trailed 52-48 with 2:30 remaining but sandwiched an Ethan Happ layup and a Bronson Koenig 3-pointer around a Syracuse FT to force OT. UW would score 13 of the final 16 points and go 7-for-7 at the FT line in the extra session. Wisconsin has won 7 of its last 8 overtime games, including each of the last 4.
- UW out-rebounded the Orange by a 51-25 margin, including a 16-6 edge on the offensive glass. The Badgers also owned a 30-14 advantage in the points in the paint column.
- The Badgers held Syracuse to 35.7% shooting, including a 1-for-9 mark in the overtime.
- Wisconsin won despite turning the ball over 20 times, their first such win since posting 20 turnovers in a 68-58 win over Valparaiso in 2007. The Badgers' last road win with 20+ turnovers came with 22 cough ups in a 70-66 win at Marquette in 2006.
- Freshman Ethan Happ set new career highs with 18 points, 15 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 steals. Happ scored 14 of his 18 in the second half and overtime.
- Junior Nigel Hayes tallied his second-straight double-double with 15 points and a season-high 12 rebounds. He also added a game-high 6 assists.
- Juniors Vitto Brown and Bronson Koenig rounded out UW's double-digit scorers. Brown added 14 points, 8 rebounds and 3 blocks, while Koenig contributed 12 points, 6 rebounds without a turnover in 42 minutes of action..

NON-CON NO-CONTEST
- UW has won 33 of its last 37 regular-season, non-conference games dating back to December of 2012.
- Under Bo Ryan (since 2001-02), UW is 148-34 (.813) in non-conference games, including a mark of 107-9 (.922) at the Kohl Center.
- During Ryan's tenure, the Badgers have gone 21-18 (.538) in non-conference road games. That includes wins in six of the last seven true road games.
- Since 2003-04, Wisconsin is 90-3 (.968) vs. unranked non-con opponents, the fourth-highest win percentage in the nation over that span: Duke (95-0, 1.000), Michigan State (86-2, .977), Texas (95-3, .969).

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.