Jolene Anderson has never been one to stray from a challenge with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team. Although Anderson and the Badgers stared at a 14-point, second-half deficit against Virginia Sunday afternoon in a Women’s National Invitation Tournament quarterfinal, failure did not enter their minds.
Anderson scored 22 of her game-high 30 points in the second half – including a clutch 3-pointer to increase the Badgers’ lead in the closing minutes – to lift Wisconsin to an 84-78 victory before an energetic crowd of 3,149 at the Kohl Center.