INDIANAPOLIS-- As Zak Showalter sat in a fold-up chair situated in the Wisconsin Badgers makeshift locker room inside of Bankers Life Fieldhouse, his demeanor matched that of many of his teammates. He stared blankly into the other end of the locker room, shook his head, then pointed it downward toward the carpeted floor, where two ice bags resting on his ankles were indicative of the Badgers entire night: ice cold.
It was partly astonishing, really, how Wisconsin looked like a completely different team than they had for the past two months against the underdog Nebraska Cornhuskers in Thursday's Big Ten Tournament second round game.