INSIDE MEN���S BASKETBALL
BY PATRICK HERB
@BadgerMBB
SCHEDULE (8-4, 0-0)
Last Week
Dec. 22 Milwaukee
This Week
Saturday Samford
Next Five
Jan. 3
Jan. 6
Jan. 12
Jan. 15
Jan. 19
New Year���s resolution
simple for Bruesewitz
Senior looking for health and prosperity
T
he changing of the calendar from 2012 to 2013
represents a fresh start, a
clean slate full of opportunity. In the case of senior Mike
Bruesewitz, it���s safe to say
he���s looking forward to turning the page.
In all likelihood, his New
Year���s resolution will simply
read: ���Stay healthy in 2013.���
46 �� VARSITY
D EC E M B E R 27, 2012
The first few months of
Bruesewitz���s final campaign
in the cardinal and white
have been anything but
smooth. After a gruesome
leg laceration cost him most
of the preseason practices
and left his conditioning in
catch-up mode. The St. Paul,
Minn., native recently suffered a concussion at prac-
Penn State
at Nebraska
Illinois
at Indiana
at Iowa
W, 74-53
1 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
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1:15 p.m.
8 p.m.
7 p.m.
tice and was once again relegated to
on-looker status.
One of the unquestioned emotional leaders on the team, Bruesewitz
missed a pair of games after the head
injury, but might be coming into a
clearing.
���Bruiser��� took a positive step last
Saturday when he played 26 minutes
off the bench in UW���s 74-53 win over
Milwaukee. Bruesewitz tallied eight
points and five rebounds, both above
his season average.
Like his teammates, Bruesewitz is
looking to use Saturday���s game vs.
Samford as a springboard into Big
Ten play just around the corner.
Feeling 60
�� Wisconsin has held each of its last
15 home opponents to 60 points
or less, dating back to last season.
That is the longest active streak
and tied for the third-longest in
NCAA Division I since 1996-97.
�� In fact, when UW holds teams below 60 at home under head coach
Bo Ryan, it is an incredible 115-1
(.991).
