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MADISON, Wisc. – The HBU men's basketball team ran into a hot-shooting Wisconsin Badgers team on Saturday night at the Kohl Center, falling by a score of 96-59.
 
Sophomore Ian DuBose led all players in scoring for the second-consecutive game, finishing with 18 points on 7-of-12 shooting for HBU (1-2). DuBose was also 3-of-4 from three-point range and totaled four steals on the defensive end. Jalon Gates, a junior, added 12 points off the bench as the only other Husky to score in double-digits. Edward Hardt scored nine with Oliver Lynch-Daniels scoring seven. Senior Braxton Bonds led HBU with five rebounds.
 
Wisconsin (3-0) was led by senior Ethan Happ who posted a double-double of 15 points and 12 rebounds while also adding six assists. The Badgers had five different players score in double-figures.
 
Early on, a Lynch-Daniels jumper evened the score at 2-2 but Wisconsin scored the next five to get out to a 7-2 advantage. A Hardt basket in the paint and a DuBose free throw pulled HBU back to within two but the Badgers pushed their lead to 11 over the ensuing three minutes. Wisconsin grew its lead through the half and took a 50-24 lead into the half.
 
In the second half, a Brad Davison layup put Wisconsin ahead 61-30 less than four minutes in but the Huskies worked their way back, trimming their deficit to 24 at the 8:32 mark after a Gates triple. That was the closest HBU got the rest of the way.
 
HBU forced Wisconsin, which had turned the ball over just 12 times in the first two games of the season, into 10 turnovers while committing 15. The Badgers held a 34-24 advantage on the boards. The Huskies shot 38.6 percent (22-of-57) from the field while Wisconsin shot 60.3 percent (35-of-58) and scored 54 of its points in the paint.
 
The Huskies will have nearly a week until their next game when they visit Wake Forest on Black Friday, Nov. 23, for a 1:00 p.m. central tip-off in Winston-Salem, N.C.