Badgers hand Cardinals huge loss

The12th-rankedWisconsinBadgersoverwhelmed short-handedLouisville,handingtheNo.23Cardinals their worst loss in more than 60 years.

Micah Potter scored 20 points and Aleem Ford added12toleadtheBadgersan85-48non-conference victory overshort-handedNo. 23Louisville onSaturdayinarescheduledACC/BigTenChallengegame.It wasLouisville’smost-lopsidedlosssincesinceXavier beat the Cardinals 99-59 on Feb. 13, 1956.

TheCardinals, playing their first gamesince Dec. 1 after team activities were suspended due to coronavirus issues within the program, were without leading scorer Carlik Jones. The graduate transfer point guard, averaging 17.3 points, traveled with the team, but didn’t play.

Louisville(4-1),playingitsfirstroadgame,originally had been scheduled to play at Wisconsin on Dec. 9.

“Obviouslyreallypleasedwiththewayweplayed,” Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said. “One of the more completegameswe’veprobablyplayedthisyear.Gota tonofcontributionsacrosstheboard.Everybodythat stepped in there, I thought did a good job. I thought we got better, figured some things out as the game went on.”

Kentucky coach John Calipari is used to early season learning curves for young players. Never in his12seasonshavetheWildcatsfallenbehindlikethis. Armando Bacot scored 11 of his team-high 14 points in the second half Saturday, rallying No. 22 North Carolina fromadouble-digit deficit to beat Kentucky 75-63 at the CBSSports Classic.

Kentucky(1-5)haslostfiveinarowforthefirsttime sinceJohnCaliparibecamecoachin2009andisoffto its worst start since the 1926-1927 season.

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