Green Bay struggles at the Kohl Center again

On Saturday UW Green Bay's struggles continued at the Kohl Center as they once again lost to Wisconsin. Green Bay and Wisconsin were virtually equal in the majority of the stats as far as rebounds, assists, and turnovers. The only real significant difference was field goal percentage where Green Bay really struggled from the floor, shooting only 33% while Wisconsin shot 50%. The only thing that kept this game from being embarrassing was that Green Bay was able to knock down their three point shots.

Wisconsin relied heavily on their defense to force Green Bay into poor shots while on the offensive end they spread the scoring out evenly. Eight Badgers scored between seven to twelve points in the game. Joe Krabenhoft really came up big as he led the Badgers in the big three categories of points, assists, and rebounds, while recording a double double. Marcus Landry also continue to assert his aggresiveness going five for six shooting and being second in scoring behind Krabenhoft. Greg Stiesma, Jason Bohannon, and Kevin Gullikson were able to score off the bench, scoring seven, nine, and nine. Getting some significant bench scoring is something we haven't seen much this year. One thing to note is that with Jon Leuer out I thought that Keaton Nankivil would see some more time but, it was Kevin Gullikson who was granted those extra minutes. This once again leads to my opinion that Nankivil should of been redshirted. If he's not playing now with Leuer out, then was there ever a chance that Keaton was going to be playing significant minutes?

Green Bay really didn't play well in this game as is seen by their poor shooting performance. Ryan Tillema continue his struggles at the Kohl Center scoring only two points in the game, while Michael Schachtner really struggled going 2-13 shooting. Terry Evans did show some flashes of brilliance as he had a nice dunk and had a mini run of his own in the game. Cordero Barkley also had a nice put back dunk and led the Phoenix in scoring with 11 points going 3-4 shooting and 4-4 from the line.

Really not much to say about this game as it was an open and shut game. Wisconsin led from begining to end as expected and got the win. Probably won't be back on here until Wednesday when I will have new team and player rankings.