A game of runs in the first half turned into a one-sided blowout in the second as No. 18 Wisconsin topped Nebraska 83-55 on Sunday at the Kohl Center. The Badgers jumped out to a 19-2 lead a little more than four minutes into the game. Nebraska answered with a 19-5 run of its own before Wisconsin countered with a 16-2 run. The Huskers then closed by scoring the final five points to trail 40-28 at the break. The second half was a much different story with the Badgers going on a 16-2 blitz to build a 25-point lead and never looked back. John Tonje topped 20 points for a second-straight game and a sixth time this year with a game-high 27 points. More than half of that came from beyond the arc where he went 5-for-11. John Blackwell was also good from deep, going 4-for-7 on his way to 14 points and five rebounds. Kamari McGee stayed hot from the outside, going 3-for-5 and scoring 11 points. He’s now shooting 55.9% on 3-pointers this year after coming into the season as a career 25.6% from deep. As a team, the Badgers hit 17 3-pointers (45.9%), tied for the third-most in school history. It gave them 32 3-pointers over the last two games and they’ve now hit a double-digit number of 3s 11 times this year — just one short of the most for an entire season since at least 1994-95. Former Wisconsin guard Connor Essegian returned to Madison and scored eight points on just 3-for-10 shooting. The Badgers improved to 16-4 on the year and 6-3 in Big Ten play. They will travel to Maryland on Wednesday. The post No. 18 Wisconsin gets 27 from John Tonje in blowout of Nebraska first appeared on 96.7FM 1670AM The Zone | WOZN - Madison, WI.