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 W, 76-60 12/9 Milwaukee L, 67-68 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

BADGERS RENEW CLASSIC RIVALRY
Wisconsin will welcome I-94 rival Marquette to the Kohl Center on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. on ESPN2. The Badgers – who have won the last two meetings – and Golden Eagles have played every year but one since the 1958-59 season.
    The Badgers look to rebound from a 68-67 loss to Milwaukee on Wednesday night.

NOTES TO KNOW
1 HAYES-ING: A preseason All-Big Ten selection, Nigel Hayes is living up to that billing lately. After a career-high 32 points vs. Milwaukee, the junior is one of just 2 players in the Big Ten averaging at least 15.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg and 3.0 apg.
2 KLUTCH KOENIG: Bronson Koenig entered the season with a single-game career high of 19 points. He has already topped that twice, ranking 2nd on UW with 15.8 ppg. Against VCU, the Cousy Award candidate scored 22 points including the game-winning basket with 5.9 seconds left.
3 MAKING IT HAPP-EN: After scoring 10 points and equaling a career high with 15 rebounds on Wednesday vs. Milwaukee, freshman Ethan Happ is tied for the Big Ten lead with 4 double-doubles on the year. Happ is averaging 10.7 ppg on 51.3% shooting and ranks 3rd in the Big Ten with 8.7 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 20.9 points and 15.3 rebounds per game. Freshmen have played 31.8% 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 is tied for 27th on the NCAA's all-time wins list with a record of 746-232 (.763) and needs 1 win to pass the legendary Phog Allen.
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 214-24 (.899) record at home, the 4th-best winning percentage in the country over that span. Ryan's Badgers have not lost consecutive non-con home games since the 1990-91 season.
7 BOARDING: UW has out-rebounded all 10 of its opponents and leads the Big Ten with 14.9 off. boards per game.
8 DEVELOPING DEFENSE: After allowing 67.1 ppg and 45.1% shooting (44.6% 3FGs) in the first 7 games, the Badgers have limited their last 3 opponent to an average of 62.0 ppg and a combined 36.5% shooting (31.0% 3FGs).

WISCONSIN'S PROBABLE STARTERS
3   - Zak Showalter: Scored double figures in four games; 19-21 FTs; team-high 12 steals
10 - Nitel Hayes: Career-high 32 points vs. UWM; Leads B1G in FTs & FTAs (58-82)
22 - Ethan Happ: Double-double in 3 of last 4 games (10p, 15r vs. MIL); 3rd in B1G in rpg
24 - Bronson Koenig: 22 pts with game-winner vs. VCU; 37.3% 3FGs (25-67)
30 - Vitto Brown: 14 points, 8 rebounds, 3 blocks at Syracuse

NOTES FROM UW'S LAST GAME
MIL 68, WIS 67 - 12/5/15 - Kohl Center, Madison
-  Wisconsin dropped its second home contest of the season with a 69-68 setback to Milwaukee Wednesday night. The loss snapped a streak of 22 consecutive victories over Milwaukee in the series.
- The Badgers led by as many as 15 in the first half, but trailed by 4 in the final minute. A 3-pointer from Bronson Koenig and a UWM travel on the ensuing in-bounds pass gave UW one last shot, but Koenig's step-back jumper rimmed out.
- Junior Nigel Hayes scored a career-high 32 points, going 9-for-18 from the field (2-3 FGs) and 12-for-19 at the free throw line. His 32 points are the most by a Badger since Frank Kaminsky tallied a school-record 43 points in 2013.
- Bronson Koenig scored 16 points (2-for-5 3FGs) while Ethan Happ tallied his 3rd doubledouble in the last 4 games with 10 points and 15 rebounds. He also added 3 blocks.

ALL TIMES vs. MARQUETTE
- Wisconsin and Marquette will renew one of the best rivalries in college basketball on Saturday. Separated by just 75 miles, the Badgers and Golden Eagles meet for the 122nd time in a series that began in 1917. UW and MU have played every year but one since the 1958-59 season (did not play in 1984-85).
- Overall, Wisconsin owns a 66-55 advantage in the series, making Marquette the Badgers' most played non-conference rival.
- Last season, UW grinded out a 49-38 win at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee behind 15 points and 10 rebounds from Frank Kaminsky. Josh Gasser contributed 12 points on four 3-pointers.
    UW shot just 32.7% from the floor, while MU was held to only 28.9% fi eld goal shooting.
- Bo Ryan owns an 8-6 record against Marquette, including wins in four of the last six meetings. Ryan and UW have won two-straight games against MU.
    Ryan has a 5-2 record vs. MU in Madison.
- The Badgers are 38-16 all-time against Marquette in games played in Madison, including a 13-3 advantage over the last 16 meetings.
- Under Ryan, the Badgers have a 33-7 (.825) record in the in-state round-robin with Marquette, Milwaukee and Green Bay, including a sweep of all three foes last season.
    Wisconsin did, however, open this year's in-state round-robin with a 68-67 loss at home to Milwaukee on Wednesday. Ryan's teams have never finished worse than 2-1 in the in-state round-robin series.
- Neither team being nationally ranked for this rivalry game is a rarity, as at least one of the two teams has been ranked in 12 of the last 15 meetings.
- UW junior Zak Showalter and Marquette's Luke Fischer were teammates on Germantown HS's 2012 state championship team. UW Freshman T.J. Schlundt's father, Terrell, played at MU (1980-83) and was team co-captain with Doc Rivers in 1983. 

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.