Wisconsin, it felt for a while, was due.
Senior forward Aleem Ford evidently believed that to be the case. He watched the Badgers – a team that shoots better than 40 percent from behind the arc at the Kohl Center – miss 17 of its first 21 3-pointers against Ohio State on their home court.
Trailing by 10 with six and a half minutes remaining Saturday night, Ford drained his squad’s first triple in 12 minutes to cut into the deficit. Eighty seconds later, he made another. Thirty-six seconds passed – during which Kyle Young scored three points on a critical and-one in the post – and Ford drilled a third 3 to conclude the two-minute span.