Wisconsin Badgers at Indiana Hoosiers

Yogi Ferrell, Indiana topple No. 3 Wisconsin, hand Badgers 1st loss

Stunned fans were overjoyed with the results.

"The program has had a lot of big wins. To the team, it means a great deal," Crean said. "To me, the team needs this. I mean, we had a long week from Michigan State to Penn State but we've gotten a lot better, and we got a lot better the last couple of days. It's amazing what happens when some real confidence starts to come."

The postgame celebration exemplified how critical the win was to a team that had been mostly inconsistent.

Wisconsin (16-1, 3-1 Big Ten) entered the night as one of the nation's last four unbeaten teams and was trying to become the first team ever to win 13 straight over Indiana.

The tale of the tape appeared to be stacked against the Hoosiers, too.

Somehow, though, Indiana (12-5, 2-2) responded with its best performance of the season.

It committed only nine turnovers, limited Wisconsin to four free throws and somehow managed to dig itself out from a 10-point second-half deficit with a remarkable 12-0 run that gave the Hoosiers the lead for good.

"We've come very far, had a lot of early losses, but I felt like we learned from watching film," said Ferrell, a sophomore who has emerged as Indiana's top scorer. "We've been working hard in practice, but we're not going to be content with it."

Nor should they be.

But it was the more experienced Badgers who got out of sorts late.

Jackson missed a 3 from the top of the key with 12 seconds to go. Josh Gasser grabbed the rebound and flipped the ball out to Ben Brust in the corner, who rushed his shot with five seconds left and came up short.

"When the clock's ticking in your head like that, he felt like there were two seconds to go or three," Badgers coach Bo Ryan said. "Also he felt that he needed to get the shot up in case the first touch from 3-point range is the call. There was actually just under four seconds left when the ball came down."

But over the final 13 minutes, the Badgers had trouble scoring. The shooting woes gave Indiana the opening it so desperately needed, and after Crean called a timeout, everything changed.

Evan Gordon started the rally with a 17-foot jumper. Sheehey and Robinson followed that with consecutive layups. Vonleh finished the 12-0 run with a jumper in the paint to give Indiana a 54-52 lead with 8:58 left, and the Hoosiers never trailed again.

But Wisconsin tied the score at 61 and closed to 73-72 on Kaminsky's putback with 28.5 seconds left.

"We're not going to sit and watch this tape and have a pizza party and get some ice cream and say, 'Wow, we couldn't have played any better,'" said Crean, who beat Ryan for the first time since he was hired by Indiana. "We're not. I think we've got a lot of potential, but you coach this game expecting to win."

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