{"id":427098,"date":"2024-12-02T00:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=427098"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"No-15-Wisconsin-moves-to-8-0-pulls-away-vs-Chicago-State","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/No-15-Wisconsin-moves-to-8-0-pulls-away-vs-Chicago-State\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 15 Wisconsin moves to 8-0, pulls away vs. Chicago State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Tonje scored a game-high 22 points as No. 15 Wisconsin pulled away from feisty Chicago State in the second half for a 74-53 win in Madison, Wis., on Saturday. Nolan Winter had 12 points and six rebounds and Steven Crowl had nine points, seven rebounds, five assists and three blocks for Wisconsin (8-0), which begins Big Ten play on Tuesday against visiting Michigan. Jalen Forrest scored 10 points and Gabe Spinelli had six points and 11 rebounds for the Cougars (0-9). Max Klesmit (five points, five assists) drilled a deep 3-pointer early in the second half to extend Wisconsin&#8217;s lead to 37-27. On the Badgers&#8217; next possession, Tonje connected on a 3-pointer to cap an 8-0 spurt. The Badgers opened the second half on a 21-7 run and led by double digits the rest of the game. A three-point play by Winter gave the Badgers a 42-30 lead with just under 15 minutes left. Moments later, Winter, a 7-foot sophomore center who has shot 50 percent from 3-point land this season, hit one from the top of the key and Wisconsin went up 46-30. Wisconsin opened the game on a 7-0 run punctuated by a Winter layup. But the Cougars hung in there with a Cameron Jernigan steal and fastbreak tomahawk dunk to cut the deficit to 14-8. The Badgers opened a double-digit lead when Crowl snuck a pass to a cutting Tonje for a jam and a 21-10 advantage. Both teams started out cold from the field. Wisconsin shot 38.7 percent from the field in the first half and just 18.8 percent from 3-point range (3-of-16). Chicago State also struggled from beyond the arc in the first half, connecting on just 1-of-12 treys. The only make came in transition from Greg Spate (eight points), cutting the Wisconsin lead to 30-25 and triggering a Badgers timeout with 1:36 left. The hosts took a 32-25 lead into the break. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/70db0714296781e9527d46939e576065.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Mar 22, 2024; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Wisconsin Badgers head coach Greg Gard reacts against the James Madison Dukes in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament at the Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tonje scored a game-high 22 points as No. 15 Wisconsin pulled away from feisty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}