Wisconsin men’s basketball: Badgers visit Oregon for NIT Quarterfinal

Following their win in opposition to Liberty on Sunday afternoon, the Wisconsin Badgers are headed to Eugene, Oregon to face the Oregon Geese within the NIT Quarterfinals.

The final time these two groups confronted, the Geese acquired the perfect of the Badgers within the first spherical of the 2019 NCAA Match. The Badgers entered the match as a 5-seed and have been dominated 72-54 in a lopsided sport. Now, the Badgers have a shot at redemption on Oregon’s dwelling court docket.

Oregon is coming off wins in opposition to UC Irvine and UCF, each video games the place they shined from begin to end.

The Geese have now received 6 of their final 7 video games and have been one of many bubble groups forward of the Badgers in regard to the NCAA Match.

The Geese are led by middle N’Faly Dante who’s averaging 13.4 factors and eight.4 rebounds per sport, nevertheless, he hasn’t made his NIT look but on account of damage.

Senior guard Jermaine Couisnard is averaging 12.8 ppg whereas taking pictures 40% from the sector. He’s additionally but to make his first NIT look on account of damage as effectively.

Within the Geese’ latest win vs UCF, sophomore middle Nate Bittle led all scorers with 21 factors. He additionally grabbed 13 rebounds in his second double-double of the season.

In the mean time, the Badgers are 4.5-point underdogs coming into the sport, and it’ll most positively be their hardest problem of the postseason.

Will probably be entertaining to see whether or not Steven Crowl can proceed his spectacular stretch of video games into the subsequent spherical and whether or not Connor Essesgian can bounce again from poor taking pictures performances in back-to-back video games.

The sport will probably be broadcasted on ESPN at 8 PM CT on Tuesday evening.