Lady Badgers Stop Streak

It's been a tough couple of weeks for Lisa Stone and her Lady Badgers...losing seven straight games. Including some tough loses against Kansas, Oklahoma State, and in-state rival Marquette, but that streak came to an end against Drake Thursday night.

Ironically the streak came to an end in a building that Wisconsin head coach Lisa Stone knows quite well. Spending three years as the top dog in Des Moines, Iowa. Winning 64 games in the games in the Knapp Center as the coach at Drake, but on Thursday she was looking for just one win. For her Wisconsin Badgers that is.

Just like the Wisconsin football team the women's basketball team leaned on their seniors. Alyssa Karel and Lin Zastrow to be more specific.

Karel led the way for the Badgers with a game high 24 points. Late in the first half 13 of those points came in a 13-2 run that extended the Badger lead to 30-19, and may have put the game on ice before halftime.

Fellow senior Lin Zastrow made her mark early and again late when it mattered most. Scoring 10 of the Badgers first 13 points, Zastrow go the Badgers off to a good start in the game, and then made her mark late when Drake made a run.

In the second half the Bulldogs cut into the Badger lead making the score 39-33, but that would be as close as Drake would get. Especially after the Badgers mounted another run of eleven points in which Zastrow nailed a key three pointer to help salt the game away.

The Badgers would go on to defeat the Bulldogs 60-49, and end the longest losing streak in the Lisa Stone Era. Ironically enough in the last building Stone called home before coming to Wisconsin eight years ago.