![]() ![]() "But it's just about surviving and advancing." "The tournament is not always going to be pretty," Wisconsin sophomore guard Bronson Koenig. ![]() The Badgers did not play their best basketball by any stretch of the imagination, but they are moving on, something fellow top-two seeds Villanova, Kansas and Virginia were unable to do. We just didn't finish a few plays that we had to make down the stretch." "We played awfully hard and were aggressive. "The guys found a way to stay in the ball game," Oregon coach Dana Altman said. After an early 11-point lead, Wisconsin found itself in a battle the rest of the night, never able to shake an Oregon team that played some of its best basketball of the season. 4 seed North Carolina in Los Angeles on Thursday.Īlthough the Ducks never held a lead and only had the score tied for a total of 1:03, the Badgers were never able to get comfortable. But after the Ducks tied the game at 52-52 with 5:54 left, Wisconsin (33-3) ran off six straight points and finished the game on a 20-13 run to close out a 72-65 win, punching another ticket to the Sweet 16. Oregon (26-10) matched Wisconsin blow-for-blow throughout the night, thanks in large part to the 30 points scored by senior guard Joseph Young, who had 29 in last year's tournament matchup with the Badgers, another hard-fought affair. The Badgers certainly got their wish, and a bit more than they bargained for. Heading into Sunday's NCAA third-round matchup with Oregon, Wisconsin was hoping history would repeat itself. ![]()
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