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-====== No denying Nixon ======
-===== UW senior plays his finest game =====
-By MARK STEWART
-mstewart@journalsentinel.com
-Madison - Ray Nixon's experiences in the Marquette-Wisconsin rivalry had been rather quiet affairs.  The Badgers' 6-foot-7 senior had gone against Marquette three times and posted mostly goose eggs. He didn't play as a freshman, and the past two years he played a total of 16 minutes, recording no shots, no turnovers but also no steals or assists. The only marks on his line score were a couple of rebounds.
-On Saturday, Nixon finally had his Marquette moment.
-Nixon set collegiate highs for scoring (15 points), minutes played (32), steals (three), field goals (six) and field-goal attempts (10) in helping Wisconsin (7-1) score a 77-63 victory over Marquette (6-3) in front of a sellout crowd of 17,142 at the Kohl Center. It was coach Bo Ryan's 100th victory as Wisconsin coach.
-Junior guard Kammron Taylor led the Badgers with 18 points, but it was Nixon who stole the show. He nailed his usual three-pointers but displayed two little-used aspects of his repertoire by putting the ball on the floor and pulling up for short jumpers or driving all the way to the basket.
-"Ray Nixon did what seniors do," Marquette coach Tom Crean said.
-Specifically he kept the Badgers close when Alando Tucker and Taylor started to slow and helped offset a quiet scoring day from forward Brian Butch (four points). Nixon scored his nine first-half points during the first 15 minutes, when Tucker and Taylor, the Badgers' leading scorers, combined for seven points on 3-of-11 shooting.
-Nixon's prettiest play of the afternoon came with 5 minutes 50 seconds left in the first half, when he used a pump-fake to get a defender off his feet and drove to the basket for a layup. The points gave Wisconsin a 26-25 lead, an advantage it never relinquished.
-"Marquette is a very aggressive team. They overplay wings and things like that, so I just took what they gave me," said Nixon, who entered play averaging 4.3 points per game. "They were up close so I just tried to get the lane as much as I could."
-If Nixon set the table for the Badgers' victory, then Taylor and junior forward Jason Chappell cleared it.
-Taylor scored nine of his 11 first-half points during the final 5 minutes of the half.
-Chappell, who finished with 10 points, nine rebounds and a team-high three assists, found Greg Stiemsma for a basket in the lane that gave Wisconsin a 33-27 lead with 3:43 left and completed a three-point play that pushed the UW lead to 39-31 with 2:07 left.
-Freshman DeAaron Williams' put-back of a Taylor miss gave the Badgers a double-digit lead for the first time, and Taylor gave them their halftime margin with a three-pointer from the top of the key with 4.2 seconds left.
-The way Crean saw it, the Golden Eagles' problems started with about 8 minutes left in the half, when he sensed his team lost some of its aggressiveness.
-"We didn't have any ball pressure, we gave them layups and we settled for jump shots," Crean said. "I think so much of the game is built on that."
-Senior forward Steve Novak led the Golden Eagles with 14 points and eight rebounds. Freshman point guard Dominic James added 10 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.
-However, the Golden Eagles' third- and fourth-leading scorers struggled. Freshman Jerel McNeal fouled out with six points in 13 minutes and freshman guard Wesley Matthews scored nine points on 2-of-12 shooting.
-During the game's all-important run, Wisconsin made 10 of 12 shots and scored on nine of its 11 possessions. Marquette was 2 for 9 during that stretch.
-"We were able to get points. They were coming up dry. It wasn't anything special, anything different," Ryan said. "I'd love to tell you it was a coaching move, but it had nothing to do with it."
-With the exception of a 1-minute stretch early in the second half, Wisconsin led by double digits the rest of the game.
-Nixon finished strong, too. Often he has started games fast but been quiet in the second half of games.
-In the second half Saturday, he added a three-pointer and a jumper just inside the arc that gave the Badgers their largest lead of the night, 58-41, with 11:57 to play.
-It capped a day Nixon hopes springs him to a strong finish to his final season as a Badger.
-"That's always big," he said. "Anybody playing any sport, you always need a big game to get you going. I think this can be a big game to get me started."

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