Thad Matta looked at the stat sheet after the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team?s stirring 71-67 victory over No. 1 Ohio State and couldn?t help but notice the Buckeyes did just about everything better than the Badgers Saturday afternoon at the Kohl Center. “They had to play, for that stretch, darned near perfect to get us and they did,” Matta said after the No. 13 Badgers handed the Buckeyes their first loss of the season behind a bolt-of-lightning 15-0 run that ignited one of the greatest rallies in program history. If few outside the state of Wisconsin knew who Jordan Taylor was before this game, the Badgers? 6-foot-2 junior guard delivered an emphatic introduction with the 27-point, seven-assist, four-rebound hammer he pounded on what was the last undefeated team in NCAA Division I.
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