Game preview | # 16 Wisconsin at # 7 Purdue
# 16 Wisconsin 19-5 (9-4) at # 7 Purdue 19-6 (11-3)
# 7 Purdue will try to resume his winning ways after a disappointing two -point defeat at Ann Arbor on Tuesday. The defeat left Michigan alone above Big Ten and purdue a match behind, but with Michigan and Michigan State who are heading on the road for difficult matches this weekend, Purdue can get back at the top of the Big Ten if it manages home business against the second best attack on the big ten.
Wisconsin is in a way the forgotten team of the Big Ten race. While Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue remained stacked at the top of the conference, Wisconsin was only one loss or two further for most of the season. Now, there are only four defeats on it, because the three best conference teams are watching the difficult final stretches of their seasons.
Wisconsin is not without difficulty – he has to go to MacKey Arena and Breslin Center, but to four defeats, these are only two of the main Wolverines of Michigan. In addition to the matches against Purdue, Illinois and the state of Michigan, the Wisconsin has a chance to manage the rest of its calendar with relative facility.
This means one or two upheaval, and protect the court at Illinois, and the Wisconsin could find itself in the heart of the Big Ten race.
With an offense among the first 10 in the country and the 35th best defense, Wisconsin is more real than it has obtained the credit. He has absolutely no bad loss. His only home loss returned to Michigan, and each loss of road was to a 26th or better team in the country according to Kenpom.
The only thing that is missing on the Wisconsin CV is a key victory on the road. He will have the chance to put a big one in West Lafayette on Saturday.
Raleigh burgess in a walking boot
The recruit was pushed at the end of the game, minutes of the duration of the crisis with the big hole of Caleb Furst and Trey Kaufman-Renn in Michigan, and the game also seemed to have a physical effect on it. Burgess was seen in a walking boot this week, although it is ready to leave on Friday. The trouble to watch for a large man who treated a injury similar to the lower leg for Daniel Jacobsen in high school.
Wisconsin, the good balanced
It’s no secret that Wisconsin was so good this season according to Matt Painter.
“Obviously, one of the best offenses in the country,” Matt Painter said about the 10th most effective offense in Wisconsin in the country according to Kenpom. “To accompany a very good defense. This is how you have a good team. When you. Have an effective offense and a good defense.”
It is difficult to discuss the painter. The defense of Wisconsin is also in the top 40 of the country in efficiency via Kenpom.
This success was helped by the Wisconsin being a rare team that did not have to face an overturned list.
“Lots of experience,” added Painter. “Not only in the years, but together.”
Which makes Purdue and Wisconsin an even more familiar and attractive match. The two teams have only shared two coaches in recent decades while also keeping experienced players in their respective systems.
Purdue hopes that home cooking can help the production of bench
Matt Painter was satisfied with Purdue’s offensive in terms of processes in the last three and a half minutes of the first half when Trey Kaufman-Renn went on the bench with his second fault. Unfortunately, despite the beauty, Purdue could not make any. Purdue remained aimlessly in these last three minutes and more and allowed Michigan to close a pump advance with a sequence of 9-0.
This has not always been the case. Purdue sometimes fought on the attack with Kaufman-Renn on the bench, but he insisted immediately after the match and again Friday, his guys had looks with which he was comfortable.
“If you get angry there for having taken good shots and missing them, guy, they don’t know in which direction,” said Painter before training on Friday. “You have to be positive with them. You have to tell them it’s good things there.”
More specifically, Purdue hopes that the results of Camden Heide and Myles Colvin could start to match its process. Heide draws 4 out of 27 out of three in game Big Ten after finishing 11-20 throughout the Big Ten conference last season. Colvin has only 11 out of 43 out of three in play Big Ten after having made 41% of his three last season.
