The Deuce: I don’t even understand what we get out of it.

This game was a guaranteed sellout no matter what. It makes sense to do it at places like Rutgers and Penn State who need the extra gate revenue. But we’re getting no benefit from that and if anything will have less in-game concessions revenue due to some of these people just getting their card and leaving.

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I learned about this last week, but there is some Anime trading card craze going on now and they decided to do an exclusive card giveaway at a handful of colleges this year.

The Michigan game is one of them, and you can get an exclusive card that has been selling for hundreds of dollars online after Rutgers had their game. And it caused that Rutgers game to be sold out with huge ticket resale prices because of people buying tickets just to get the card.

So that’s part of the reason the resale prices for the Michigan game are so crazy, and there will likely be a non-insignificant number of tickets sold to people who have no interest in basketball and likely won’t even stay for the game itself.

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We all watched Saturday night and it was right there for the taking, so this is a bounce back game that we need to get. No multi-game slides like Purdue and MSU have had.

Wisconsin is unranked and currently 42nd in the NET. However, this is a team that has been as hot as anybody in the Big Ten lately. Their last "big" loss was on January 1st in a 16 point loss vs. Purdue. Since that game, they are 7-2 with wins vs. Michigan, UCLA, Minnesota (twice) and OSU. Their two losses have been from a combined 3 points (vs. USC and @IU). We are their highest ranked NET opponent from here on out, and a win against us tomorrow night would be HUGE for them. They are lead by Boyd and Blackwell at the guard position, as well as Winter on the wing.

We know who we are. 8th in AP, 4th still in the NET. Does Wagler bounce back with a big game? Does Wisconsin try to do the same thing to him that MSU did? Do we have good energy or do we look tired due to 3 weeks of only playing 7 guys? If we want to keep on the track for an outside shot at a Big Ten title and a 2 seed in the NCAA's, hopefully we have good answers/results for all of these questions. It's Jake Davis wig night at the Hall, so hopefully it's rocking.