Louisville was playing for the first time in 18 days and without its best player on Saturday. It showed.
The Cardinals allowed Wisconsin to score 25 of the game’s first 29 points and never really made things interesting after that, falling to the Badgers by a final score of 85-48.
The 37-point margin of defeat isn’t the worst for a U of L basketball team — shoutout to a 61-7 loss to Centre in 1920 — but the Cards did make a bit of negative history.
The 37-point margin of victory was also not just the largest ever for a Wisconsin team against a top 25 opponent, but the largest ever for any Big Ten team against a top 25 opponent.