Badgers HC Luke Fickell's opening comments after 28-14 win over WMU

since it's so late we'll uh we'll keep this a little brief and quick but um it was a challenge and and I think more than anything that you know you got to find ways to win and uh that was what we did tonight we we've harped upon the fourth quarter and um you know it came down to that you know I got to give them a lot of credit right they they came in here with a plan and did a pretty darn good job of sticking to the plan you know I don't know that we did enough to adapt and adjust their plan um as the game got really methodical one it was very unique at halftime as you're kind of sitting there in a 10 to seven game and kind of curious as to you know how we're going to create some energy and momentum um because they had done a really good job at slowing that thing down and keeping the ball in Fr on their defense and methodically moving the ball with their offense uh and I've been in these games before and and sometimes they're not the most fun but what it comes down to is you got to find a way and you got to make some adjustments that maybe you didn't Envision you'd have to make uh you didn't want to make in game one but you have have to make those guys make some of those adjustments and we did and uh I give our guys a lot of credit you know they didn't bad an ey the leadership on this team is much different and and that's what I'm really excited and proud of um but it was a test it was definitely a test and you know that ball that ball game came down to the fourth quarter and you know you got to find a way to create some energy momentum and it's not because the ball hit off their leg but that's know one thing that does happen in the ball game uh and that was the way that we created that energy and momentum and we kind of felt it really shift and roll from there