The Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes 83-72 to start their major stretch of conference play, using a 51-point second half to push ahead to victory in one of their highest-scoring performances of the season
It was an efficient game for the Badgers inside the arc, as the team overcame their continued three-point shooting struggles by shooting 63.8 percent inside the arc in the win.
Defensively, the Badgers held Iowa’s leading scorer Blake Krikke to just 10 points due to foul trouble, while Payton Sandfort scored only nine points on 3/11 shooting as well.