Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday 1/8/21
8 January 2021 Sports
Sports for January 8th
The Packers will be watching the Wild Card Round of the playoffs at home this weekend, waiting for their divisional round opponent next weekend. Green Bay has the number one seed in the NFC and will have home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. For quarterback Aaron Rodgers this is a time to savor. The last time the Packers entered postseason play as the top seed Rodgers was in his late twenties. This year he says physically he’s feeling just as good, if not better, at 37.
Rodgers said “I feel as good as I’ve felt at the end of a season in, I can’t even remember.”
He went to say, “It’s important to all of us. There’s so many guys who haven’t been in that mix before, only a few of us who were there for that moment so it’d be nice for all of us to get back,” said Rodgers. “The Super Bowl is obviously a big part of the way that quarterbacks are judged and teams in general are judged, but it always and will always take a team to do it and hopefully this is the team to do it this year.”
The Green Bay Packers announced plans to bring about 6,000 fans to the divisional playoff game at Lambeau Field. The Packers say the tickets will only be made available to season ticket holders who opted in last summer for a chance to purchase post-season tickets. Those season ticket holders will receive information via email on how to order tickets online once the time and day of the divisional playoff is announced. Tickets will cost $127 to $177, depending on where ticket holders want to sit. Fans will be organized in socially-distanced groups of two, four or six around the stadium. The Packers emphasize the tickets will use a mobile ticket scan, so they cannot be resold or transferred. The person who buys the tickets will be responsible for organizing the people within their group.
D’Mitrik Trice scored 21 points and Tyler Wahl made consecutive 3-pointers in the second overtime to spark No. 8 Wisconsin to an 80-73 victory over Indiana on Thursday night. Wahl finished with a career-high 12 points as Wisconsin (10-2, 4-1 Big Ten) won for the seventh time in its last eight games. Nate Reuvers added 14 points and Micah Potter had 10. The Badgers have won 18 consecutive games at the Kohl Center against the Hoosiers. Indiana’s Trayce Jackson-Davis scored 23 points on 10-of-16 shooting. Aljami Durham added 15, Jerome Hunter had 12 and Rob Phinisee 10 for the Hoosiers (7-5, 2-3). Jackson-Davis, who entered the night averaging 20.3 points, scored 16 in the second half. But he had only one point in the extra sessions. Durham made a layup and free throw to complete a three-point play and put Indiana ahead at 69-67 with 27 seconds left in the first overtime. Trice hit a step-back jumper with 7.7 seconds left to tie the game. The Hoosiers failed to get a shot attempt in the closing seconds as Wisconsin’s Brad Davison forced a jump ball. Davison’s 3-point attempt rolled off the rim at the buzzer in regulation. Wisconsin plays at No. 10 Michigan on Tuesday.
The NFL Wild Card round of the playoffs starts Saturday. Indianapolis is at Buffalo, Los Angeles Rams at Seattle and Tampa Bay at Washington.
On Sunday…Baltimore is at Tennessee, Chicago at New Orleans and Cleveland is at Pittsburgh.
In the NBA tonight, Utah (4-4) is at Milwaukee (5-3). The Bucks have won three straight games.
Boys Basketball (Thurs.)
Mayville 80, Living Word Lutheran 67
Winnebago Lutheran 76, North Fond du Lac 75
Omro at St. Mary’s Springs 69, Omro 53
Freedom 70, Luxembrurg-Casco 51
Kaukauna 66, Appleton North 62
Central Wisconsin Christian 60, Valley Christian 48
Deforest 67, Lourdes Academy 60
Hustisford 73, Dodgeland 24
Stockbridge 76, Oakfield 70
Cambria-Friesland 69, Markesan 53
Randolph 79, Princeton/Green Lake 38
Pardeeville 58, Rio 56
Fall River 76, Montello 50
Tonight (Fri.)
Nekoosa at Wautoma-Tipoff is at 7:30 on FM 102.3, The Bug.
Ripon at Kettle Moraine Luthean
Berlin at Winneconne
Campbellsport at Waupun
Plymouth at Kewaskum
Oshkosh at Oshkosh North
Appleton West at Fond du Lac
Westfield at Adams-Friendship
Wisconsin Dells at Mauston
Girls Basketball (Thurs.)
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 55, Ripon 33
Winneconne 60, Berlin 39
Tonight (Fri.)
Oshkosh North at Oshkosh West
Fond du Lac at Appleton West
Neenah at Appleton East
Nekoosa at Wautoma (ppd)
Westfield at Adams-Friendship
Central Wisconsin Christian at Hustisford
Oakfield at Lourdes Academy
Randolph at Markesan
Princeton/Green Lake at Montello
Cambria-Friesland at Pardeeville
Rio at Fall River
Dodgeland at Horicon
Kimberly at Hortonville
Reedsburg at Beaver Dam
New London at Shawano
Oostburg at Xavier
Hilbert at Brillion
Menominee Indian at Weyauwega-Fremont
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