Wisconsin Badgers at Indiana Hoosiers Game Preview, Odds, Picks & Predictions
Indiana Skids into Matchup vs. Wisconsin
Despite three straight losses overall, Indiana has more than held its own at home with a 13-2 record and has two wins against ranked opponents. The Hoosiers are an excellent defensive team but need to break out of its offensive funk to have a chance to stay with Wisconsin on Tuesday night.
Wisconsin leads the Big Ten with seven games against ranked opponents, so the Badgers will need to take care of business in a game against an unranked foe, which did not happen in their last game.

Don’t expect Wisconsin national player of the year candidate Johnny Davis to finish with 11 points, as he did in his last game.
Wisconsin (+1200) is third among the Big Ten teams in the odds to reach the Final Four.
Wisconsin at Indiana Game Information
Game: Wisconsin (19-5) at Indiana (16-8)
Location: Assembly Hall
Day/Time: Tuesday, 9 p.m. ET
Television: ESPN2
Wisconsin Looks to Tighten Up Defensively
Wisconsin did not allow its first nine opponents to shoot over 45 percent from the field. However, beginning with a mid-December game against Ohio State, that began to change.
The Buckeyes connected on 50 percent of their shots to win by 18 points and, counting that game, there have been 10 instances where the Badgers allowed the opponent to make at least 45 percent of its shots, including five at 50 percent or better. Not surprisingly, Wisconsin has lost four of those five games, including Saturday to unranked Rutgers.
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Only Nebraska and Minnesota allow opponents to make a higher percentage of their shots. The difference is that Nebraska and Minnesota are a combined 4-23 in Big Ten play and not a game out of first place like the 15th-ranked Badgers.
“The start of the game, specifically defensively, we gave them way too much confidence,” Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said after the loss to Rutgers. “Any mistake we made, they made us pay for. That’s what good teams do.”
Wisconsin is 1-5 against the college basketball spreads in its last six games.
Indiana Reeling
Nobody told Indiana legend Mike Woodson that coming back to coach at his alma mater was going to be a smooth ride.
The Hoosiers have lost their last three games. One of those can be attributed to Woodson’s suspension of five players, including two starters for what has been reported as a curfew violation. However, those players were back when Indiana shot 34 percent from the field and 24 percent from 3-point range in a 76-61 loss to Michigan State.
“We’re not shooting the ball very well,” Woodson told the media after the game. “You look at the 3-ball, we shot terribly in that category. We didn’t make out free throws. You just make your free throws and you’re in the game. They made their free throws, we didn’t.”
Indiana is in ninth place in the Big Ten standings despite leading the conference in scoring defense (63.8 points allowed per game) and field goal percentage defense (37.6).
Sophomore Trayce Jackson-Davis has done what he can to carry the load on offense, but with the Hoosiers failing to make 40 percent of their shots in each of the last three games, Indiana is tumbling down the standings.
Indiana has covered against the Las Vegas odds in just two of its last 10 home games against Wisconsin.
Wisconsin at Indiana Head-to-Head
Wisconsin has won the last four meetings and nine of the last 10 against Indiana and is 7-3 against the spread during that stretch.
Four of the last five games between the teams have been decided by seven points or less, with the home team winning seven of the last eight matchups.
Five of the last eight games have gone under the total.
Wisconsin at Indiana Prediction
The total has gone over in 10 of Wisconsin’s last 14 games, and with both teams coming off disappointing performances, don’t be surprised to see both the Badgers and Hoosiers playing with more of a sense of urgency.
Wisconsin plays at a faster pace than Indiana, but the Badgers rank last in the Big Ten in field goal percentage.
Those who bet online will have to try to figure out if Indiana is the team that defeated fifth-ranked Purdue and Atlantic Coast Conference co-leader Notre Dame or the one that lost to Penn State and fell to Michigan State by 15 the last time out.
Indiana has been good at home but it will be hard to pass up Wisconsin as a three-point underdog.
The 132½-point total does seem a little on the low side.