After a slow week last week due to COVID protocols, Badger basketball looks forward to a busy week.

Last Week

There was only one game for Badger basketball last week, but it was a VERY important one.

Beat URI 73-62

It isn’t very nice to bring a team to your court and really give them no chance to win. However, you did pay them to come and play. So maybe not all bad.

After having a hard time breaking double digits, Brad Davison led the Badgers with 23 points. A quick triplet of three-pointers to start the game got his scoring started. After the first half, he had outscored URI 17-16 by himself.

The Badger defense was suffocating again. They held a high powered Ram offense that had been averaging 79 points a game to a measly 62. That was in part to Nate Reuvers’ three blocks that now give him the outright, all-time Badger Basketball career block record.

Upcoming Badger Basketball Slate

The Badgers have one of the best defenses in the country, similar to the football team. They’ll be put up to the test against another new opponent in Loyola (IL). Originally scheduled to play Northern Iowa on Wednesday, the Badgers luckily found the Ramblers quickly for a Tuesday night matchup.

12/15 vs. Loyola (IL)

The Badgers will need to put the defense on display again. The Ramblers shoot 55% from the floor. That includes an astonishing 41% from Chicago. Not Chicago as in the team that we are playing, as in three-point range. Loyola’s length and seniority mirror the Badger Basketball image exactly.

Coach Porter Moser has given Loyola another opportunity to win the Missouri Valley Conference. However, we are now in year three since the famed Final Four run that Loyola used to take the world by storm. This should be a Badger win.

12/19 vs. #23 Louisville

Thankfully, the Badgers were able to reschedule what could be a key game. The rescheduling of the ACC/Big 10 Challenge game between the good guys and Louisville will be the best litmus test to this point of the early season.

Ranked 23rd. Louisville has started the season a perfect 4-0. That includes a one-point win over a very talented Seton Hall team. They even embarrassed a Western Kentucky ball club that kept things close with West Virginia and hopes to reach the big dance for the first time since the 2012-2013 campaign.

Louisville hasn’t played since the first of the month and rent could be due on Saturday. On Wisconsin.