Butch, Badgers hold off Iowa

Brian Butch hears the same daily mantra from coach Bo Ryan. Make hard cuts. Get to the basket.

Butch, now a senior, certainly gets the message. He scored 22 points on 7-of-12 shooting as No. 25 Wisconsin continued its home dominance in the Big Ten with a 64-51 victory over Iowa on Saturday.

The Badgers (12-2, 2-0) won their sixth straight game even with a tepid shooting performance other than Butch, who was also 8 of 11 from the free-throw line.

"Coach preaches on us constantly about making hard cuts with our offense and just really concentrating on getting the ball down low. We hear it every single day. We probably hear it about 20 times a day," Butch said. "It's one of those things where you kind of get it through your head no matter what."

Joe Krabbenhoft had 12 points and 7 rebounds, and Michael Flowers added 10 points for the Badgers, who have won nine of the last 10 against Iowa.

Still, the Hawkeyes (7-8, 0-2) hung around, thanks to 13 points by Justin Johnson, even though they struggled with rebounding, turnovers and big foul trouble.

"In the first half, we have 10 turnovers and they have 7 offensive rebounds, and it's a 6-point game," Iowa coach Todd Lickliter said. "It's kind of easy to see we need to take care of the ball a little better and we need to get them off the glass."

Purdue 65, Michigan 58: Keaton Grant scored 17 points, hitting a career-high 5 of Purdue's nine 3-pointers, and the Boilermakers held off Michigan's second-half comeback for their first win in a Big Ten opener in five years.

"The fewer 3s we take, history shows, the more we make," Purdue coach Matt Painter said. "It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I think we're more efficient when we shoot a lower number. We've got to get a good mix of getting the ball inside."

Robbie Hummel added 13 points for Purdue (10-4, 1-0), while freshman Manny Harris led Michigan Wolverines (4-10, 0-2) with a career-high 25 points.