Less than a week after sealing the 3-seed with an unnecessarily difficult but hard-fought win, the #5 Iowa Hawkeyes (20-7, 14-6) will take on the 6-seeded Wisconsin Badgers (17-11, 10-10).
The Badgers’ 75-74 win over the Penn State Nittany Lions wasn’t a game until it was, which is why I decided to get a workout in when the second half creeped inside its first media timeout with a 15-point UW lead. Sure enough, I turn my television back to the final Big Ten game of the night and whaddaya know, Penn State is in the midst of a game-ending 17-2 run which came up juuust a little short.