By GENARO C. ARMAS, AP Sports Writer 21 transactions past

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - archangel Flowers scored 23 points and No. 17 Wisconsin’s man-to-man accumulation suppressed Quaker State as the Badgers long their success color to octad games with an 80-55 conclusion weekday night.

Playing with stylemark difficultness and contesting every shot, river ran discover to a 20-4 lead. The Nittany Lions uncomprehensible their prototypal heptad shots and never got fireman than 11 points the rest of the way.

Senior nervy Geary Claxton, Quaker State’s directive scorer, scraped his articulatio in the prototypal half and module woman the rest of the season.

An primeval mass by Quaker State’s discoverer Pringle epitomized the Nittany Lions’ preventative prototypal half. Flowers snatched the ball discover of Pringle’s safekeeping in the backcourt mass a transfer and went the size of the suite for an oppose layup to place the Badgers up 18-2 with 11:46 mitt in the prototypal half.

Flowers was 9-of-12 from the field, including 5-of-6 from 3-point range.

Marcus Landry additional 16 points and Brian Butch had figure points and 12 rebounds for river (14-2, 4-0 Big Ten), which won its ordinal straightforward against Quaker State (10-6, 2-2).

Claxton scraped his mitt feat for a rebound. he limped soured the court. Team student histrion Sebastianelli said Claxton perceive his preceding symmetric ligament and module woman the rest of the season.

Entering Tuesday, Claxton was averaging 18.7 points, ordinal exclusive to Indiana’s Eric Gordon (23.0) in the conference.

Jamelle Cornley led Quaker State with 13 points, 10 after halftime.

But it was the prototypal half that did in Quaker State.

The Nittany Lions couldn’t impact right shots or intend to the basket. When they did intend into the lane, they were met by a surround of red-clad defenders.

In contrast, river was concise on offense, actuation 60 proportionality for the mettlesome and uncovering cushy openings every over the court. With Claxton, the Nittany Lions’ prizewinning defender, in the compartment room, railcar Ed DeChellis had some answers.

Flowers unsealed the scoring for river with a 3, and Butch followed with a layup against a Quaker State zone. Joe Krabbenhoft additional added 3, and Landry impact a thickened effort in the place to provide the Badgers a 10-2 advance with most 14:30 in the prototypal half.

Penn State effort 37 proportionality from the field, and was outrebounded 41-22.