BadgerNation.com: Badgers dominate Penn State

BadgerNation.com: Badgers dominate Penn State:

“The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team may have seemed ripe for the picking Saturday. The 18th-ranked Badgers were coming off a gut-wrenching home loss to Illinois. They were on the road at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center, where they had not won since Jan. 1999. To top it all off, Wisconsin had to play without leading scorer Alando Tucker, who sat out Saturday’s game with a right foot injury.

“Plenty of worries. No problems.

“The Badgers used a 12-0 first-half run to jump all over host Penn State, cruising to a 76-50 road victory to improve to 14-4 overall and 5-2 in the Big Ten.

“Sophomore point guard Kammron Taylor replaced Tucker in the starting lineup and scored a game-high 20 points, enjoying another in what has become a series of strong performances on the road.

“‘He’s a fast, quick, good player,’ Penn State coach Ed DeChellis said. ‘He played well.’

“Senior forward Mike Wilkinson and senior guard Clayton Hanson added 11 points each for the Badgers, who received point contributions from 10 players. …”