Postgame Notes: Wisconsin vs. Minnesota

Postgame Notes
#22 Wisconsin vs. Minnesota
March 5, 2017
Madison, Wis. (Kohl Center)

TEAM NOTES

The Badgers finished 12-6 in Big Ten play to secure a second-place finish in the league standings and the No. 2 seed for the Big Ten tournament.
Wisconsin has won at least 12 Big Ten games for the eighth consecutive season, the longest active streak in the conference (Purdue has the next longest at three).
UW won its 23rd game of the season, equaling the 11th-highest win total in school history. Each of the 12 highest single-season win totals have come in the last 15 years.
Wisconsin improved to 15-2 at home this season. The Badgers have won 21 of their last 23 games at the Kohl Center. UW is now 23-4 (.852) at the Kohl Center under Gard.
Thursday's crowd of 17,287 marked the 56th consecutive sellout at the Kohl Center.
The Badgers have won seven straight meetings with Minnesota, dating back to 2014.
UW has won six straight over the Golden Gophers at the Kohl Center and leads the teams' all-time series in Madison, 63-33. Minnesota's last win at the Kohl Center came in 2009.
In its final Kohl Center appearance, Wisconsin's four-man senior class of Vitto Brown, Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig and Zak Showalter won its 111th game, matching the Badgers' 2015 senior class for the second-highest win total over a four-year period in school history. Only the 2016 senior class (115) has recorded more wins.
UW's seniors combined to score 46 points (Koenig 17, Hayes 12, Showalter 12, Brown 5).
Wisconsin held Minnesota to 49 points, its second-lowest scoring output of the season (47 at Michigan State on Jan. 11). The Gophers entered the game averaging 76.1 points per game in Big Ten play.
The Badgers limited Minnesota to a season-low shooting percentage of 32.1%.
UW committed just 10 turnovers, giving the Badgers 10 or fewer giveaways in four of their last five games.
The Badgers shot a season-best 55.6% (10-for-18) from 3-point range, their first performance of 50.0% or better since hitting 50.0% (7-for-14) at Minnesota on Jan. 21.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES

Senior G Bronson Koenig scored 17 points, matching the game high, on 5-for-8 shooting from 3-point range in 23 minutes of action. Koenig extended his own school record and now owns 247 career 3-pointers. Koenig went 9-for-16 (.563) from beyond the arc in UW's final two regular-season games. Over UW's last four games, Koenig has averaged 20.0 points.
Senior G Zak Showalter scored 12 points on 5-for-8 shooting, his third consecutive double-figure scoring game. Showalter has gone a combined 7-for-14 from 3-point range during that three-game stretch, including a 2-for-3 showing vs. Minnesota.
Senior F Nigel Hayes scored 12 points on 5-for-10 shooting and added 6 rebounds and 3 assists.
Sophomore F Ethan Happ grabbed 13 rebounds – his 13th double-digit rebounding game of the season – to go along with 9 points, 5 assists and 2 blocks.
Freshman G D'Mitrik Trice scored 8 points on 3-for-6 shooting, adding 2 assists and 3 steals in 26 minutes.

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Postgame Notes: Wisconsin vs. Minnesota

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