Category Archives: College Basketball
BuckyCap: Badgers Show Off Their Tough Defense
These last few games for Wisconsin have been a dream. Badgers are back to playing their brand of basketball. In the last three games, teams averaged a paltry 53.3 points per game. That’s pretty good for any team. It’s not like the Badgers defense struggled
BuckyCap: Reuvers Breakout Helps UW Avoid Letdown
Many Wisconsin Badgers basketball fans wonder what life will be like without Ethan Happ next year. It’s a major loss without question. Happ has been their best player for the last two plus years and to lose his production will be significant especially early on
BuckyCap: Wisconsin Gets a Must-Win vs. Michigan
Wisconsin Badgers probably were not on a bubble, but it started to trending that way after another loss against Maryland. Badgers could be staring down a seventh loss of a year, and their fifth loss in six games if they were to fall to previously
BuckyCap: Wisconsin’s Comeback Comes Up Short
Wisconsin put themselves in a tough spot. Badgers trailed Maryland by 18 points at the half and only scored 15 points. This is their second time this month where they’ve scored fewer than 20 points in a first half. Wisconsin looked like this would be
BuckyCap: Badgers Suffer Second Straight Home Loss
Has the Kohl Center lost its mystique? Kohl Center used to be one of the toughest places to play in college basketball. Teams did not go in there and win regularly. At multiple times since the inception of the Kohl Center, Wisconsin have had a
BuckyCap: Badgers Dismantle Nittany Lions
Wisconsin needed a bounce back. Badgers lost two straight games, and if they fell to Penn State, eyebrows would be raised about this team. Thankfully for Wisconsin, that didn’t happen. Badgers went to Happy Valley and rolled them in an impressive 71-52 victory. Wisconsin did
Badgers Add Transfer & Prepare for Post-Happ Era
Wisconsin Badgers are not usually in the business of adding transfers. It’s something Wisconsin didn’t do under Bo Ryan, but Greg Gard previously showed interest in transfer players that made sense. Badgers did reel one in yesterday by adding Micah Potter, a transfer from Ohio
HoopsCap: Marquette Wins Ugly in Rivalry Win Overtime
Winning ugly is not something that was in Marquette’s reptiore for the last couple of years. They didn’t know how to do it. Partly, their team wasn’t built for ugly. Bad defensive teams have a tough time winning ugly because for a game to be
BuckyCap: Badgers Squash Quick Rutgers Scare
In Wisconsin’s head, they simply thought about not looking ahead. Don’t think about a big matchup with Marquette on Saturday afternoon and take care of business against Rutgers. Under Steve Pinkell, you can see the Scarlet Knights improving and they’re going to be difficult at
BuckyCap: Badgers Knock Off Another Unbeaten
Big 10 playing their games on Friday is a real tough one for ya boy. Apologies to those who follow the Badgers and missed coverage from us on Saturday. My day was filled, so, blogging did not happen at all. That said, Badgers fans probably