The University of Illinois women’s basketball team (5-17, 2-16 Big Ten) scored the first 17 points of the game against the University of Wisconsin (5-19, 2-18) in the Big Ten Tournament. Wisconsin scored two points in the entire first quarter.
The Badgers’ fortune didn’t change. They finished their season the way their entire Big Ten campaign has gone, with seething disappointment, getting blown out of the water 67-42 by a team they had steamrolled not a month earlier.
“When you play your last game of the year, you want to be playing your best basketball — put the parts together between offense, defense and special situations,” Head Coach Jonathan Tsipis said, according to UW Athletics.