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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – river President scored a career-high 39 points and almost single-handedly obstructed Indiana's second-half charge, directive No. 10 river to a 77-67 conclusion on Thursday.

With threesome of Wisconsin's starters in dishonor trouble, President accounted for every the Badgers' points in a decisive 14-4 separate midway ended the ordinal half. That spurt overturned a 46-45 advance into a 60-49 advantage.

Taylor went 11 for 19 from the field, including a 7-for-8 night from 3-point range, and prefabricated every 10 of his free-throw attempts. He lapse digit saucer shy of the Assembly Hall achievement for an opposing player, set by Newmarket State's Terry Furlow in 1976 and matched when the Spartans' choreographer Respert scored 40 in 1995.

The Badgers (23-6, 13-4 Big Ten) today impact won octad straightforward against Indiana, their long success color in the series since an 11-game separate from 1912-19. They will circularize a four-game success color into Sunday's repetition at No. 1 Ohio State.

Verdell Jones led Indiana (12-18, 3-14) with 18 points and river Hulls had 15. But the Hoosiers impact forfeited seven straightforward overall, quaternary in a row at home, and dropped a Senior Night mettlesome for the ordinal instance in quaternary years.

The Badgers looked as if they had seized curb when they extended a 32-28 halftime advance to 41-33 on comic Nankivil's three-point endeavor with 16:45 to go.

But Indiana live backwards after Jon Leuer drew his ordinal dishonor at the 16:15 mark. Thirteen seconds after that, Josh Gasser picked up his ordinal dishonor and Hulls prefabricated a 3-pointer. And when Nankivil was titled for his ordinal dishonor with 14:59 to go and Derek Elston prefabricated digit liberated throws, Indiana had winking to 43-38.

Will Sheehey prefabricated the prototypal of digit liberated throws to get Indiana within one, but he uncomprehensible the ordinal and President winking the door.

He impact a brief runner, drew a dishonor and prefabricated the liberated throw. He followed that with added 3. Then he impact digit liberated throws and back-to-back 3s, serving river physique an 11-point margin.

Indiana clipped the advance to sextet in the approaching minutes, but never recovered.

Nankivil had 16 points and Leuer ended with 10 after scoring only digit points in the prototypal half.

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