I’m a big Badger fan. I’ve lived in Wisconsin my entire life and graduated from Wisconsin in 2006. I was extremely relieved to see the Badgers finally start playing at the end of the first half and part way into the second half. If we had shot as poorly as we did in the first half against ANY Big Ten team, we would not be walking away with a victory. Overall, I feel that we played remarkably well to hold Texas A&M-CC to significantly under its season average. Fortunately, we shot very well the second half. If the real Badgers had showed up in the first half, this game would have been a blow out.

Here’s a funny comment that I found on espn.com:

tstote (3/16/2007 at 6:15 PM)
In case you missed the game, here’s what happened. The hotel the Badgers stayed at last night hadn’t gotten the memo about daylights savings and their clocks were all an hour behind and therefore the team got to the arena an hour late. However instead of forfieting the game some quick thinking Badger fans in Badger attire, some of whom bore a passing resemblance to actual players on the team, took to the floor and took on the Corpus Christie Islanders. Unfortunately since none of these Badger fans had any actual basketball experience they quickly fell behind, eventually by the score of 25-7. Fortunately with about 5 minutes left in the half the real Badgers straggled in. They quickly assessed the situation, took over and started climbing back into the game. Kamron Taylor was running real late having missed the team bus and didn’t get to the arena until about 10 minutes left in the 2nd half; however once he got into the game he calmly scored 24 points in 10 minutes, leading the Badgers past the Islanders 76-63. Bring on UNLV!