AJ Storr scored a career-high 30 issues, Steven Crowl added 19 and Incorrect. 5 seed Wisconsin beat Incorrect. 4 seed Northwestern 70-61 on Friday within the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Event.
Wisconsin (21-12) advances to play games manage seed and third-ranked Purdue within the semifinals on Saturday. The Badgers misplaced each regular-season conferences with the Boilermakers, 75-69 at house and 78-70 at the highway.
Storr gave Wisconsin its first double-digit supremacy with 6:57 left in the second one part when he sank a 3-pointer for a 62-52 supremacy.
Northwestern superstar Boo Buie made his 7th 3-pointer with 4:17 too much to get inside of 65-59. However the Wildcats would now not produce every other farmland objective the remainder of the best way.
Wisconsin stayed scorching from 3-point territory then making 16 on Thursday in opposition to Maryland. Freshman John Blackwell, who made 4 3-pointers in opposition to the Terrapins, made his handiest 3-pointer in opposition to Northwestern with 2:14 left for a 70-59 supremacy.
The Wildcats grew to become it over on their nearest two possessions and Wisconsin stored operating indisposed the clock to seal it.
The Badgers went 10 of twenty-two from distance, with 3 makes apiece from Max Klesmit, Crowl, Storr. Klesmit completed with 10 issues and 7 assists. Storr used to be 10 of 16 from the farmland and seven of 8 on the stripe, and Crowl made 8 of 12 total.
Buie led Northwestern (21-11) with 29 issues and 7 3-pointers. Brooks Barnhizer had 13 issues and 14 rebounds. Ryan Langborg, averaging 12.4 issues in line with sport, fouled out with 5:30 left to complete with 5 issues on 2-of-6 capturing.
Buie used to be one produce shy of tying the Large Ten Event file of 8 3-pointers in a sport, poised by way of Iowa‘s Keegan Murray (2022) and Indiana‘s Devonte Green (2019). Buie did poised a program file for the event, passing Ben Johnson (2001) with six 3-pointers.
Buie scored 11 immediately Northwestern issues and added a private 5-0 run for a 21-10 supremacy with 12 mins left within the first part. However he didn’t rating once more the remainder of the part and Wisconsin old a 14-0 run to get again in it. Luke Hunger made a jumper from the free-throw sequence within the utmost seconds to get Northwestern inside of 33-29 supremacy on the crack.
Reporting by way of The Related Press.
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