Feb. 24, 2012
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Post-game Notes
Iowa 67, Wisconsin 66
Carver-Hawkeye Arena – Iowa City, Iowa
TEAM NOTES
• No. 16 Wisconsin fell to 20-8 overall, 9-6 in Big Ten play.
• UW moved to 8-4 away from the Kohl Center this season, 6-4 in true road games. The Badgers are also 5-3 on the road in Big Ten play.
• Bo Ryan is now 262-99 (.726) at Wisconsin, including a mark of 129-54 (.705) in the Big Ten.
• The Badgers allowed 43 points in the first half, the most points Wisconsin has surrendered in a half this season, surpassing the previous high of 41 Iowa scored in the first meeting this season.
• Wisconsin turned the ball over 11 times in the first half, but just twice in the second half. The 13 total turnovers were the Badgers’ most in Big Ten play and equaled the season high set against Mississippi Valley State on Dec. 23.
• UW shot 50.9% from the field, while Iowa made 48.0%, marking the Badgers’ first loss when posting a higher field goal percentage than its opponent since a 73-69 overtime loss at Iowa on Jan. 21, 2009 – snapping a streak of 54 consecutive wins when out-shooting an opponent.
• This marks the 9th time the Badgers shot 50% or better from the field and the 3rd time in Big Ten play this season.
• The Badgers out-rebounded Iowa, 31-29, the 17th time UW has pulled in more boards than its opponent.
• Matt Gatens scored 33 points, the second-most scored by a Wisconsin opponent in the last four years. Gatens and Kansas State's Jacob Pullen (38 points against the Badgers in the 2011 NCAA Tournament) were the two highest scoring outputs since Davidson’s Stephen Curry tallied 33 points in the 2008 NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 on March 28, 2008.
• The Wisconsin bench accounted for 21 points, its highest single-game output in Big Ten play.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
• Sophomore Josh Gasser scored a team-high 14 points, while adding 5 rebounds and 2 assists.
• Junior Ryan Evans also finished with a team-high 14 points. He grabbed a team-high 6 rebounds and added 2 assists, 1 block and 1 steal.
• Senior Rob Wilson came off the bench to score a season-high 11 points in a season-high 17 minutes. It was two points off his career high of 13 set against Michigan Jan. 20, 2010.
• Sophomore Ben Brust scored 10 points and grabbed 4 rebounds off the bench, his first double-figure scoring game since posting 13 against Indiana (1/26/12).
• Senior Jordan Taylor tallied 9 points, snapping a streak of 17 consecutive double-digit scoring games. He also added 4 assists and 1 steal.
• Junior Jared Berggren posted 4 blocks, the second-highest single-game total of his career (Berggren had 5 against Indiana – 1/26/12). Berggren now has 49 blocks on the season, the 5th-best single-season mark in UW history.
