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MILWAUKEE -- Nigel Hayes put Wisconsin teammate Ethan Happ on the hot seat in the locker room at halftime after the big man missed most of the first half with foul trouble.A well-rested Happ helped the 17th-ranked Badgers brush past in-state rival Marquette for a 93-84 victory Saturday.Happ scored all 11 of his points after halftime and Bronson Koenig had 18 to help the Badgers win their fifth straight game.I told everyone in the locker room at the same time, `Ethan, you got a lot of rest, so youve got to come out and play well for us, Hayes (17 points, nine rebounds) said about encouraging Happ at halftime. So I think he took it personally.The return of Happ gave Wisconsin a presence in the post to balance the offense. Marquette didnt have an answer for Happ on both ends of the court in the second half.The nimble, 6-foot-10 Happ added five rebounds and negated the inside play of Marquettes 6-11 center Luke Fischer, who had nine of his 11 points in the first half.Better position defense, better help ... and he didnt foul, Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said about Happ. Thats what got him in trouble in the first half.Wisconsin (9-2) went on a 16-0 run in the second half to help build an 18-point lead with 6:44 left. Marquette (7-3) got within eight with 2:22 left but never seriously threatened the rest of the way.Marquettes Katin Reinhardt (16 points) hit his first four 3s before missing his last two from behind the arc. Markus Howard led Marquette with 22 points.The Golden Eagles just didnt have an answer for Happ after halftime.Our coach told us he was the heart of their team, Howard said. We knew that when he was coming back in the game in the second half that they were going to be a different team, they were going to have a lot more energy. Wisconsin is 67-56 in the rivalry that dates to 1917.THE BIG PICTUREWisconsin: Badgers fans dont seem to view the in-state rivalry with as much intensity as Marquettes vocal backers. A healthy smattering of fans wearing Wisconsin red at the Bradley Center watched Happ pick up two fouls guarding Fischer less than 2 minutes into the game. Vitto Brown (15 points) did an admirable job defending Fischer despite giving up 3 inches. But Brown had a careless foul on Andrew Rowsey from 3-point range off an inbounds play with 2.6 seconds left in the first half. Wisconsin trailed 40-35 at halftime after Rowsey hit all three free throws.Marquette: The program held a halftime ceremony honoring the team coached by the late Al McGuire that won the 1977 national championship. This years bunch put on a show after shooting 48 percent in the first half. At their best, the Golden Eagles are hitting from the outside while Fischer cleans up in the lane, and thats what exactly what happened early. But Happ proved to be too tough a matchup in the second half, even for Fischer, a seasoned senior.SECOND HALF SLUMPMarquette gave up at least 53 points in a second half for a second straight game, a trend that coach Steve Wojciechowski would like to end.For whatever reason, and I have to figure it out, our starts to second halves have been really poor, he said. We allow a team to get so much momentum.STAT LINESophomore Khalil Iverson gave Wisconsin a spark off the bench with 16 points on 5-of-6 shooting, along with five rebounds and two blocks.POLL IMPLICATIONSWisconsin could move up a spot or two in the next poll on Monday after a win in front of a crowd filled with mainly emotional Marquette fans.UP NEXTWisconsin: Plays the back end of consecutive games against in-state rivals by hosting Green Bay on Dec. 14.Marquette: Gets a week off for finals before returning on Dec. 19 to host St. Francis (Pa.)---More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25---Follow Genaro Armas at: https://twitter.com/GArmasAP Hydro Flask 40 Oz Straw Lid Sale . Just not the game. Kyle Palmieri scored two straight goals in the third period to rally the Anaheim Ducks past the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Tuesday night. Hydro Flask Straw Lid Canada . 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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The four-star quarterback was a three-sport star in high school, and though that versatility may have kept him out of the zip code of five-stars a few years ago, DeShone Kizer says now playing baseball and basketball was the best thing to ever happen to him.It allowed me, one, to create the athletic ability that it takes to be able to adjust on the fly when youre playing at this high level, Kizer said last week. And two, Im learning more about the quarterback position every day than I ever have.Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly echoed those thoughts, saying that a few month away from the gridiron can declutter a players mind and help him think outside the box, a trait more valued for a quarterback than perhaps any other position in team sports.It keeps you sharp in competitiveness, in team sports, competing all year-round, Kelly said. Thinking in terms of other sports, there are definitely correlations that you can bring to the game, itself, from other sports. And I just think sometimes we become a little too specialized at the position, and I enjoy seeing guys that play some other sports.So how exactly did baseball and basketball sharpen Kizers football mind? And was he actually any good on the diamond or the hardwood? The more appropriate question may be: Just how good could he have been?We couldnt hide himToledo (Ohio) Central Catholic baseball coach Jeff Mielcarek was able to resist the temptation to use Kizer on the mound, but there was no point trying to hide him in the batting order. After so much interest from college football coaches forced Kizer to shut down his pitching arm -- which Mielcarek said maxed out in the 80s -- his sophomore year, Meilcarek put him in the outfield and hit him cleanup.Kizer threw a bullpen session for an assistant during his junior year, Mielcarek said, prompting a heart-to-heart between coaches over the budding stars use.One of our [assistant] coaches came in and said, Coach, DeShone -- we need to use him, Mielcarek recalled. And I said, Seriously? And I named three schools coming in that he was going to be auditioning for to throw for football, and I said, We havent used him all this time. What are we going to do now? This is silly. So no, were not going to do that.Kizer played an integral part on Central Catholics conference championship team in 2013, hitting an RBI double in the title game. Perhaps more impressively, he returned in 2014 for his senior year, just months away from starting his college football career.That year-round commitment earned Kizer the respect of opposing prep baseball coaches, said Mielcarek, who thinks Kizer could have been drafted into the major league baseball draft had he stuck with the diamond. And though football and basketball kept Kizer from turning baseball into a 12-month activity, his attitude during his limited stay with Mielcareks squad seemingly made up for lost time.Were playing summer baseball and DeShones not playing summer baseball because hes going to football camps and hes going to this and hes going to that, and nobody ever questioned what DeShone was doing, Mielcarek said, because DeShone not only will show you that when he shows up hes going to work harder than anybody else, but DeShone will also make certain that he gets those people on his side because he just says the right thing, he does the right thing. Its amazing.When Kizer was buried at No. 3 on the Notre Dame depth chart in the 2015 spring, he contemplated a move to baseball. He put out a feeler to Irish baseball coach Mik Aoki through teammate and Irish outfielder Torii Hunter Jr. before coming to terms with his day job.I went to the batting cages a couple of times, but never really fully got it in motion, I never ended up leaving, Kizer said. It was time to lock in and play my part as a backup at the time.A 6-4 rarityLike every quarterbback who dabbled in basketball, Kizer was a point guard.dddddddddddd The 6-foot-4 Kizer maxed out height-wise early, but the anomaly of a tall freshman distributor led to analogies that bordered on hyperbole.He knows where a guy is open when the guy doesnt know hes open, said former Central Catholic basketball coach Jim Welling, now the schools admissions director. DeShone was like a miniature Magic Johnson. Now, he wasnt 6-8 like Magic was, but he had peripheral vision and the ability to find open guys, and it was really uncanny because I had never seen anything like that before.Kizers father, Derek, played basketball at Bowling Green, and Welling said he thinks DeShone couldve surpassed his father at the college level.If there was one knock on Kizer, it was a suspect jump shot that he didnt get enough time to work on.When you go from 15 football games a year and then you go to a 25-30-game basketball schedule and then you go into a 25-30 (game) baseball schedule and then you have summers where everybody wants you to do summer activities, you really dont have time for player development like DeShone really needed, Welling said. If he had gotten that, I have no reason to believe that he couldnt have been recruited by the Big Ten, ACC or Big East.Kizers Notre Dame teammates echo that sentiment, with receiver C.J. Sanders coming away impressed by the paradox of Kizers hoops game whenever they play pick-up.Hes an athletic guy for his size, thats whats most surprising, Sanders said. Hes a big guy, like (230 pounds). Being able to move like that playing basketball is crazy.As a prep sophomore, Kizer was a captain. As a senior, he was league player of the year and third-team All-Ohio thanks to a stat-sheet-stuffing line of 11 points, 5.6 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game, according to the Toledo Blade.Lines like those were all the more amazing considering he often got a late start thanks to football playoff runs that bled into winter sports.Hes a guy that had a state tournament championship game on Friday night, and Sunday evening hes practicing basketball within two days with no reps, Welling said. Thats how anxious he was to get on the floor.The later, the better?Kizer may have been good enough to sign with Notre Dame, but he was only ESPN RecruitingNations 16th-ranked dual-threat quarterback in the 2014 class. Did his well-rounded background make it more difficult to master sports signature position?To go through all three sports in high school, I never really locked into one, so theres a lot of stuff that I wasnt able to learn in high school where people have preached it since theyve been 8 years old, Kizer said. So a lot of that new stuff got put on me my redshirt freshman year when I was mature enough to learn from it, and now its kind of put me at a higher learning curve now that Im in my 20s where things are a little easier to understand.Kizer is 9-4 as a college starter and, if all breaks right, could play on Sundays next fall. More than two years after Kizers signing day, 11 of the 15 QBs ranked ahead of him have switched either schools or positions.Is all this a credit to Kizers prep approach? Or does his college success just speak to his individual makeup?That mind works like a computer, Welling said of Kizer. He can retain stuff in basketball that you had to go over and over and over things and hopefully you think theyll get it in some point in time. In his case, he didnt have to do that. If you did it once, he had it.His process-ability skills are off the charts, and I think when you throw those three different sports together and youre processing like he has the ability to do, I would agree with him 100 percent that hes probably benefited from all three sports. ' ' '