A big one is set to go on the Big Ten hardwood Thursday night in Madison where the Wisconsin Badgers (16-5, 12-6 ATS) will look to continue their dominance over the Indiana Hoosiers (16-4, 9-6 ATS); tip-off from the Kohl Center is set to go live on ESPN2 at 9:00 ET.

Leroy’s Sportsbook currently has the Badgers installed as 7-point home favorites with the ‘total’ lined at 125.

After dropping their Big Ten opener in East Lansing against the Michigan State Spartans, Head Coach Tom Crean’s Hoosiers rattled off three straight wins over Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State to sit atop the herd. Then came a surprising three-game losing streak to Minnesota, Ohio State, and Nebraska that chopped the Hoosiers back down to size. Most teams experience this up and down nature throughout a lengthy conference schedule, and the hope in Bloomington is that their squad got all its losing out of its system as they close out the second half of the schedule. That certainly looked to be the case last Saturday when Indiana last took to the hardwood, as it simply blew the doors off Penn State en route to the 73-54 home win and cover as 15-point favorites. Frosh Cody Zeller and his mates check in 4-3 SU and 3-4 ATS in their seven road/neutral court games to date.

Just like tonight’s opponent, the Wisconsin Badgers also exploded out of the gate to the tune of a 12-2 SU mark through the course of their first 14 games played, but then came upon some hard times that balanced out their overall statistics. After going into Nebraska and handing the Huskers a 64-40 woodshed beating as 8.5-point road chalk in their Big Ten opener back in late December, the Badgers went on to drop three in a row to Iowa, Michigan State, and Michigan. The first two defeats saw them drop back-to-back home tussles for the first time during the Bo Ryan era. Instead of feeling sorry for themselves, the Badgers snapped the losing streak with a solid win at Mackey Arena – a venue they’d only been victorious in three times in their previous 40 visits – and at the same time, snapped the Boilermakers 26-game home win streak. That triumph was followed up with two more against Northwestern and Illinois. As it is, Wiscy enters tonight’s spot winners of four in a row (3-1 ATS) with 10-3 SU & 6-4 ATS records as a host.

Wisconsin has dominated its recent series with Indiana winning each of the teams L/8 overall confrontations while covering the closing number in seven of those contests; the ‘over’ is 4-1 in the L/5 meetings. The Hoosiers check in a bankroll depleting 3-14 ATS versus their L/17 Big Ten opponents, but stand 3-2 SU & ATS the L/5 times they were dogged by eight points or less. Wisconsin’s 19-9 ATS the L/28 times it matched up against a +.600 opponent, but checks in just 2-3 SU & ATS as a favorite of eight points or less.

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