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Greg Gard said quality and intent are discussed often when his No. 17 Wisconsin Badgers are seeking ways to be successful.Senior forward Nigel Hayes has been impactful with his efforts and intentions the last two victories for the Badgers (7-2), who host Idaho State (1-7) on Tuesday night at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.Hayes earned Big Ten Conference player of the week accolades, the first weekly league award for the standout. Hayes averaged 18.5 points, 8.0 assists and 6.5 rebounds per game in wins against then-No. 22 Syracuse and Oklahoma.The Badgers recorded a season-low 5 turnovers in 67 possessions against Oklahoma. Hayes had 6 assists and no turnovers in that meeting. He also scored 18 of his game-high 28 points for Wisconsin, which shot 52.4 percent (33 of 63) in the victory.I think the whole team realizes this is how we need to play in terms of more than individually specific, Gard said. Thats been the neat part about watching some guys individually or us collectively as a team mature to understand what can make us good and what can make us real good.Ironically, the same things that make Nigel really, really good and a hard matchup are the same things that make us a really difficult matchup as a team, when everybody is on the same page.The Badgers got double-digit scoring from four players against the Sooners, including freshman G DMitrik Trice, who scored a career-high 16 points. Trice made 4-of-4 shots from beyond the arc and had no turnovers in 20 minutes off the bench.Meanwhile, Gard said he knows Idaho State coach Bill Evans, since Evans was an assistant coach at Montana with former Badgers player Freddie Owens.Idaho State, well see a variety of defenses from them, Gard said. (Evans) is the guru of zone defense and combination defenses in the Utah-Idaho-Montana region.Senior guard Ethan Telfair was suspended three games by Evans, who did not give a reason for the suspension. Telfair missed games last month during a holiday tournament in Cancun, Mexico.Telfair, a community college transfer, led the team in scoring last season with 20.2 ppg in earning Big Sky Conference newcomer of the year honors. He is the younger brother for former NBA player Sebastian Telfair, who was a first-round pick in the 2004 NBA draft.Telfair paces Idaho State with 19.8 ppg and 6.2 rpg. Telfair is fresh off a 26-point performance in the Bengals 79-76 road loss on Dec. 3 to Cal State Northridge.My team played hard and really competed, Evans said after the loss. We had good performances and fought really hard.Freshman guard Brandon Boyd, who averages 14.3 ppg, drained 13 of 14 fouls shots in the game against Cal State Northridge.Idaho State has relied on its perimeter game at times with efforts from a couple shooters. Junior guard Robert Jones III and Boyd are shooting 55 percent (11 of 20) and 44.1 percent (15 of 34), respectively, from beyond the arc. Yeezy Shoes NZ . Its the second straight game Bell has scored in extra time for Kelowna, which beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 6-5 on Friday, and he now has four game-winning goals on the season. Ultra Boost 19 NZ . Marincin has played in two NHL games so far this season with two penalty minutes. The 21-year-old has three goals, four assists and a plus-5 rating in 24 games with the American Hockey Leagues Oklahoma City Barons this season. http://www.yeezyshoesnz.com/ . 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But simply getting to the finals helped show how far the Americans have come in a sport where theyve long struggled.Third-ranked Aron Szilagyi of Hungary beat upstart U.S. fencer Daryl Homer to win gold in mens sabre Wednesday.Despite the loss, Homer earned the second silver medal for the American mens fencing team in Rio, joining Stanfords Alexander Massialas. Hes also the first American to win a mens sabre medal since his mentor, Peter Westbrook, won bronze in 1984.Were trying to raise the visibility of the sport, Homer said. We are very competitive with each other, and its great. I love that.Homers impressive final touch gave him a thrilling 15-14 victory over Irans Mojtaba Abedini in the semifinals and put him within a win of the first gold for the U.S. men in the modern era.Szilagyi proved to be too much for the 10th-ranked American, who fell 15-8.Still, the Bronx-born Homer finished as well as any U.S. fencer in his weapon ever had.Homer found out about fencing when he was 5 by reading his dictionary. He begged his mother, Juliette Smith, to let him try out the sport, and Homer wound up under the tutelage of WestbrookWestbrooks foundation is designed to mentor inner-city youth through fencing. It has also been crucial in the career of Ibtihaj Muhammad, who made history Monday as the first U.S. athlete to compete wearing a hijab.Homer emerged as one of Westbrooks prized pupils, earning spots on four All-America teams while at St. Johns. He also became the first American man to win a medal at a world championship event, taking silver in 2015.Hommer won his first three matches Wednesday by relatively comfortable margins to reach the semifinals.dddddddddddd Homer then faced a furious challenge from Abedini, who overcame a seven-point run from Homer to force a do-or-die situation.Homer exploded to the center of the piste for a touch that put him into the finals.I was like, No regrets. If I lose doing this, Im going to lose doing this and I dont care. And that was literally how I rolled out, Homer said. If you want a medal, you have to do something big for it.But Szilagyi never let the athletic Homer dictate the pace of the match, instead neutralizing Homer with quick strikes that put him in a hole too deep.Daryl is a very aggressive, very dynamic fencer, Szilagyi said. My strategy was to break his dynamism ... and not let him aggressively attack me.Russian Inna Deriglazova won gold in womens foil, giving her country its second fencing title of the Rio Games.Deriglazova beat Italys Elisa Di Francisca, the gold medalist from the London Olympics, 12-11 to claim a world title for the second year in a row.Deriglazova found herself up a point with just 2.5 seconds left, a situation that tested the old adage that athletes who compete not to lose typically lose.But Deriglazova was able to run backward until the clock ran out.Whatever it took to do in those last two seconds, to run away, to fall down, I would do that, Deriglazova said. It didnt matter.Third-ranked American Lee Kiefer lost in the round of 16 and said afterward that this will probably be her last Olympic appearance.The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '