EAST LANSING, Mich. — We haven’t heard a whole lot lately about how it’s not what happens over the course of the game, it’s how a team reacts to it.
That’s a go-to phrase in the Bret Bielema vernacular, a predictable opening statement in postgame news conferences for the University of Wisconsin football coach when times were good no matter how much eye-rolling it caused.
Yet Bielema has kept that one in his back pocket since the Badgers opened Big Ten Conference play in late September, even though it’s been more appropriate than ever throughout a six-game stretch in which UW has lost five games.