….Now the 10th-ranked Badgers can point to an achievement that occurred at the Kohl Center that betters anything they’ve done on the road. And, fittingly, you can’t pin it on one individual.
When the Badgers broke a school record by remarkably committing just one turnover during their 57-42 Big Ten Conference victory over Michigan State Thursday night, the credit had to be spread around the team.
“How many times do you see a game with a team with one turnover against a team that plays pretty good defense and will get in your shorts?” asked proud UW coach Bo Ryan after the Badgers played almost flawlessly with the ball, the exception being one bad decision by Joe Krabbenhoft in the first half.
“I don’t know what else you can say,” Ryan added. “Statistics always speak in a loud tone but I’ve never coached in a game where that’s happened, never defensively to another team, or another team defensively to us doing the same things. I don’t know if it’s ever happened. But our guys do value the ball.”