'Wild Night' for Hoosiers ends in loss

MADISON, Wisc. -- John Mellencamp's "Wild Night" rang out over the loud speakers of the Kohl Center during a second half timeout. \nBut there were no Hoosiers wild about Wednesday night's meeting between Wisconsin and IU.\nThe No. 21 Hoosiers (13-7, 5-4) fell to the Badgers 72-54 and had one of their worst shooting performances of the season.\n"We're getting open looks," IU coach Mike Davis said. "We shot a high percentage, now we're missing lay-ups."\nIU was hampered most by the limited play of senior forward Marco Killingsworth, who played just 20 minutes because of foul trouble. The senior transfer fouled out at the 8:16 mark with 14 points and eight rebounds, picking up his fifth after being in for a little under a minute.\n"This is not a disrespect to anybody, but Marco, he's not making all those fouls," Davis said. "He's 270 (pounds). He's getting pushed around too ... He's got to just run from the play ... when he sees somebody come, just run to the other side."\nBut it wasn't the same story for the Badgers, whose leading scorer only sat when the game was out of contention.\nSenior Alando Tucker led Wisconsin with 29 points -- the most the Hoosiers have allowed a player to score since Duke's J.J. Redick dropped 29 on IU in November. Tucker bettered his season average by almost nine points on a 12-of-20 shooting night.\n"It's like lifting weights off your back," Tucker said of the win.\nThe two teams came into the contest in similar situations.\nThe Badgers entered the Kohl Center in sole possession of seventh place in conference standings, a spot where a win would catapult them into fourth place -- a win they got. \nAn IU loss dropped the Hoosiers to seventh place, but a win would have put them in a three-way tie for second. And as has been the story all season long, IU was going on the road to face a team desperately in need of a conference win, as Wisconsin had lost three of its last four.\n"We're not very good on the road -- that's it," Davis said. "Every team we go on the road against, they're looking for a win."\nKillingsworth's absence at one point caused Davis to play a five-guard lineup, leaving sophomore forward Robert Vaden at the center position. Senior guard Marshall Strickland attributed the lineup change to a need for the Hoosiers to press, but Davis said it was just a simple personnel problem.\n"We had no one else to put in -- Marco had two fouls," Davis said. "With five guards on the court, that's really all we had to play"