The first 20 minutes were more of the same sad story.
As Northwestern’s offense went dead, making just two shots in the second period and falling into the same familiar double-digit hole that we’ve come to know this season, it seemed like the Wildcats were prone to suffer their tenth straight conference defeat by a script we’ve read all too often. The game story title practically wrote itself: “Northwestern goes cold in XX-XX loss to Badgers.”
Through two quarters, the ‘Cats had shot under 19% from the field, including a dreadful 1-of-12 from beyond the arc. If that wasn’t enough, Wisconsin closed the half with a buzzer-beater three, seemingly putting a nail in the coffin in demoralizing fashion.