Jon Leuer News

One thing UA coach Sean Miller has preached often this season is winning the first four minutes of a game.

Jon Leuer scored 19 points in the Badgersa win over IPFW Sunday. He will look to bring similar production against Oakland tonight.

The Wisconsin men's basketball team will open play in the Maui Invitational in Hawaii beginning late Monday night when the Badgers take on Arizona in the first round.

Wednesday's 58-42 victory of Oakland University was the final tune-up before the Badgers head to the Maui Invitational on Monday.

Trevon Hughes scored 15 points Wednesday night in Wisconsin's 58-42 victory over Oakland, Mich.

Monday, November 16, 2009 12:45 a.m. Vote 0 Votes Wisconsin basketball head coach Bo Ryan does not like the blocked shot statistic.

Jon Leuer scored 19 points and blocked a career-high four shots as Wisconsin beat Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne 75-46 Sunday in the season opener for both teams.

The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team starts its season officially on Sunday.

When the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team plays a little school like UW-Superior at the Kohl Center, you automatically expect the visiting team to win every hustle play by diving on the floor and crashing into seats for loose balls.

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Showing the same high-energy approach two weeks in a row is certainly a good sign of things to come for the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team.

Kelly Ryan isn't afraid to offer a blunt assessment of her husband's teams. "She is quite the critic at times," said Bo Ryan, entering his ninth season as the men's basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin .

Thursday, November 5, 2009 2:11 a.m. Vote 0 Votes Much ado has been made in the preseason about Wisconsin starting a pair of senior guards for the first time since Sharif Chambliss and Clayton Hanson suited up for the UW basketball team in 2004.

Jon Leuer scored 15 points as Wisconsin cruised to a 90-54 win over Bemidji State in the Badgers' first exhibition game.

Jon Leuer led four players in double figures as Wisconsin cruised past Bemidji State, 90-54, in the Badgers' exhibition opener on Wednesday night.

Their social security checks aren't at the printer, much less in the mail. And if someone doesn't fix the Social Security system soon, there might not be any money left when and Jason Bohannon are eligible for payments, decades from today.

While the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team may be young at some positions, the backcourt isn't one of them, as the two seniors on the team - Hughes and Jason Bohannon - know that solid guard play is what will make the Badgers click.

Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:40 a.m. Vote 0 Votes Last season, UW men's basketball forward Keaton Nankivil scored a career high 21 points in the Badgers' second game against Purdue, showing a deft touch on the perimeter with five three-pointers. Nankivil followed up with five points against Northwestern in Wisconsin's next game.

"Sometimes you have to go through certain things to know if you can come out of them or not," Landry said.

The win total varies from year-to-year -- sometimes it ends up at 30, sometimes it eds up at 20 -- but the end-of-season story remains remarkably similar at Wisconsin during the Bo Ryan era.