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Coming off a sound beating at the hands of Duke and playing
for the first time in nearly a week, the Wisconsin basketball team needed some
sort of boost to get back into the right mindset.

The Badgers found that off the bench Monday, as they coolly
dispatched the Wofford Terriers 70-43.

Looking out of rhythm offensively for much of the early
going, UW head coach Bo Ryan went to his bench for guard play.

Jason Bohannon responded by finally getting Wisconsin on the
scoreboard with a 3-pointer from the left wing a little over four minutes into
the first half.

That jumper ignited things for the Badgers, who ended up
scoring the next 10 points.

It was also just the start of Bohannon's night as he
finished with a team-high 14 points in 25 minutes of playing time.

"This is the type of team where everyone can contribute,"
forward Marcus Landry said. "Those guys are able to come off the bench and we
don't lose anything. They're the same as the starters, they're capable of
starting … but those guys are great players and they bring a spark from off of
the bench."

Along with Bohannon, reserve guard Michael Flowers and
forward Jon Leuer combined to score 26 points. The trio scored efficiently as
well, connecting on 54 percent of their shots (8-of-15), as the Badgers' bench
outscored the Terriers' bench by a 28-4 margin.

"We just don't have a whole lot of bullets in the gun right
now, and they're coming off the bench with very good players in Bohannon and on
down the line," Wofford head coach Mike Young said.

Wofford's situation was made even more difficult by the fact
that the Terriers were missing senior guard Shane Nichols, a 15.6 point-per-game
scorer from a year ago, and junior guard Matt Estep, who averaged nearly six
points a contest in 2006-07.

"Playing without Nichols makes it tough for us; he's a very
good player," Young said. "You got to make shots against whomever you play …
but we just don't have the kids to make shots right now that we'll have in a
week.

"We are short right now and we suffer a great deal in a game
like this because of that."

Coming into the game, Bohannon had only attempted a total of
four free throws over the team's first six games. Against Wofford, however, the
sophomore doubled that total, getting to the line eight times and converting on
six of those attempts.

"The past week after the Duke game, we had some people that
were standing around, coach kind of saw that, and wanted us to move a little
more off the ball," Bohannon said. "When you move more off the ball, there's
going to be more off-the-ball fouls, and that's how it was tonight."

Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan pointed out that Bohannon used
some moxie and a variety of different cuts to put himself into positions where
he would get fouled.

"He's not going to beat a lot of people off the dribble —
he's going to have to get to the free-throw line by doing the little things: a
guy reaching in on him, a guy over his back, whatever," Ryan said of Bohannon.

"However he gets there, we don't care. We just like him to
make them when he does."

Flowers contributed eight points, four rebounds and four
assists to the cause for another stat sheet-filling game.

Leuer registered four points — including two on a nice spin
move in the paint — and three offensive rebounds. The freshman's three
offensive boards, however, all came on one possession off his own missed shots.
That earned Leuer, after having another layup blocked on the following
possession, a trip to the bench and a little light-hearted ribbing from his teammate.

"I didn't want him to think about it too hard, so I was just
laughed about it so I had a little joke with him," forward Joe Krabbenhoft
said.