Wisconsin Badgers
UAB
Wisconsin handles UAB, 72-43, to begin Battle 4 Atlantis
November 26, 2014 | Men's Basketball
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Nov. 26, 2014
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas -- Frank Kaminsky had 16 points and eight rebounds, Duje Dukan scored 11 points and No. 2 Wisconsin had no trouble beating Alabama-Birmingham 72-43 in the Battle 4 Atlantis quarterfinals Wednesday night.
Josh Gasser added 10 points to help the Badgers (5-0) win their 21st straight regular-season nonconference game.
Wisconsin held UAB to 35 percent shooting, and is now giving up 46.6 points per game this season.
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Robert Brown scored 16 points for UAB (2-3), which never led. Brown scored UAB's first 11 points and was the only Blazer to record a field goal in the first 19:59.
Brown finished 7 for 15 from the field. The rest of his team: 11 for 36.
No. 5 North Carolina (by Butler) and No. 22 UCLA (by Oklahoma) were knocked off in the first two games of the day in the Bahamas, but this one lacked any sense of drama.
A 14-2 run in the first half put Wisconsin up 22-8, and after Brown made a 3-pointer to get the Blazers within 15 with 13:58 left, another big Badger burst - this one 17-2 over 7 minutes, capped by Nigel Hayes' dunk in transition - made it 60-30.
UAB was in 1-for-14 slide over a 13-minute stretch of the first half, before Nick Norton banked in a 3-pointer from near midcourt just before the halftime buzzer.
It was a rare Blazer highlight: Wisconsin went into the break with a 37-17 lead.
And even during the intermission, the good night for the Badgers continued. A Wisconsin fan walked onto the floor and proposed at halftime to his girlfriend, kneeling to present her ring at practically the very spot Norton had shot from moments earlier.
She said yes.
