The Wisconsin Badger basketball team faces the Northwestern Wildcats at Welsh-Ryan Arena, tonight, at 6:00 pm. For those of you with the Big Ten Network, you are in luck, because you get to see the game. For those of you who want to look into my crystal ball to see what is going to happen, tonight, read on.
My secret sauce is largely based on work done, recently, by Ken Pomeroy, showing how much the offense and defense contribute to each basketball stat and what the home court advantage is for each. What’s cool, is that I can take all the existing information on the two teams, wave my magic math wand over it, and come up with the chart, below.