Koenig leads No. 17 Wisconsin over Siena 92-65

The game starts at 8:00 pm ET on Sunday, November 15 and will air on ESU and ES3.

“One of the first thoughts that went through my head after that game was, ‘Thank God we’ve got another game in two days to prove ourselves”, UW junior guard Zak Showalter said. Wsiconsin shot a blazing 68% (17-25) from the field in the second half and hit 13-14 (92.9%) free throws.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Badgers seem to have addressed their issues on offense.

And this is Western IL and Siena. Wisconsin faces Georgetown on Friday in NY.

After taking 21 three’s in the opener, Wisconsin didn’t attempt a shot from behind the arc until, when Koenig knocked one down from the left side to increase the lead to 23-18 and got the Badgers rolling.

The Badgers are hoping to rebound after their 69-67 loss to Western IL on Friday. Wisky better get it together quite quickly.

The Siena Saints visit Kohl Center to take on the Wisconsin Badgers. “. … Our guys are going to learn”. It pulled ahead and carried a 43-28 lead into halftime behind shooting 50 percent from the field and 13 points from Koenig. In Hayes’ absence, junior forward Vitto Brown picked up the slack in the post and contributed 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting. Nigel Hayes, limited to 5 minutes in the first half because of foul trouble, added 14 points for the Badgers.

The first 10 minutes of the game looked a lot like Wisconsin’s loss Friday night to Western IL as the Badgers struggled to defend dribble penetration and allowed Sienna to get into a rhythm offensively.

The Badgers hit 12 of 16 free-throw attempts (75 percent) in the half as Siena committed 14 fouls.

Although the defense started slow once again, Wisconsin built a healthy first half lead and then put the game away for good by making six of its first seven shots from the field to build a lead that reached a margin as large as 33 points.

The Badgers will look to bounce back tonight when the Siena Saints come to town. Marquis Wright, the Saints second-leading scorer from a season ago, returns this year and scored 20 points in Siena’s season-opening loss to Duke.

“Because that tempo, you look up tempo in the dictionary, you see Bo Ryan’s picture”. “When we stopped running, we got in trouble”.

Siena: The Saints opened the season playing their first two games against the defending national champion (Duke) and the runner-up (Wisconsin), the first time any school has done that since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

Wisconsin is 18-1 SU in its last 19 games at home.