Following an 85–48 trouncing in last Saturday’s matchup against No. 23 Louisville, the No. 9 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (8-1, 2-0 Big Ten) opened their 2020-21 Big Ten regular-season title defense with wins over Nebraska (4-5, 0-2) and No. 12 Michigan State (6-2, 0-2).
The Badgers opened conference play Tuesday night against a Nebraska team filled with a lot of new faces. Four of Nebraska’s top five scorers are transfer students with the focal point of Head Coach Fred Hoiberg’s defense being 6-foot-6-inch junior guard and former West Virginia Mountaineer Teddy Allen. Allen entered Tuesday’s game averaging a team-best 18.