Second Season Starts Today

Added Comment: The game pretty much lived down to all expectations. The Gophers stayed close for about 12 minutes and then stopped scoring - literally, they went about 6 minutes late in the frist half scoring only 1 point. Flowers had a steal, slam, and hack on one four-point play and Taylor and Tucker combined on what is becoming a signature fastbreak alley-oop, otherwise it was pretty plain.

The Badgers open the Big Ten season at home this afternoon against the hapless Golden Gophers. Rated 171st by Sagarin , Minnesota is 7-8 including a loss to the Marist Redfoxes of Poughkeepsie. Based on the Sagarin ratings, the Badgers are are a 22 point favorite.

ESPN Classic goes deep into the vault this week and pulls out a 1983 matchup between featuring Ohio State Buckeyes at Wisconsin Badgers (1983). Fire up the Tivo - it's on Tuesday, January 9 at 1:00 p.m. I'm not sure why they picked this one - I guess it's to promote that night's big showdown, but it's from our bad old days.