If you had the misfortune of watching this disaster of a game, the first thing that may have come to mind would be the 36-33 debacle in the 2011 Big Ten Tournament. Well, this was worse at times. The first half was decidedly in the “worse” category.
The Nittany Lions managed 13 points in the entire first half, and the Badgers weren’t much better. To accentuate how bad that was, the Nittany Lions scored three points in nearly 10 minutes of play. Both teams shot below 30 percent from the field in the first half, and, while the PR team will tell you this was a defensive battle, the reality is that what we saw in that half was a display of dismal basketball, an exercise in futility by both teams.