This time, the Badgers weren't so lucky.
Xavier was clearly the dominant team and got the road win by a score of 80-70. Trevon Bluiett had 25 points for Xavier, and Happ had 21 for Wisconsin, but the real story was Xavier guard JP Macura.
Macura as a solid 20 points and 8 rebounds for Xavier, but he probably won more people over on Thursday with his interactions with the Wisconsin student section.
The entire game the Badger fans were chanting "asshole" at him and calling him other names and stuff like that. I don't see the problem there necessarily. Fans are gonna be fans. Every student section does the same so who cares if they swear a bit?
Macura, being the controversial fire-starter he is, responded by not only having one of his best games ever, but also throwing it back in the Wisconsin fans' faces.
He finished the game off with an alley-oop dunk, and as he left the floor (Wisconsin fans still yelling at him), he gave us an all-time response.
If you don't know the hilarious meaning of this, look no further than the 2017 NCAA Tournament. In the Sweet 16, Wisconsin was playing Florida for a chance to go to the Elite Eight and probably the Final Four. Wisconsin led by two with 4 seconds remaining in overtime and looked like a 99% favorite to win. But then Chris Chiozza hit an unbelievable three-pointer at the buzzer to send the sorry Badgers packing.
Macura's perfect response apparently disgruntled Bill Raftery Here's a summary:
"Raftery inadvertently hit upon why some straight arm clapping offended him so dearly when he started a sentence with “maybe I’m getting old.” His impromptu soapbox on how engaging in trash talk in somehow ruining the game of college basketball was just the tip of a Twitter iceberg." -Christopher Novak, bigeastcoastbias.com.
https://twitter.com/Bri_Hen/status/931366897798565888
This is where I declare my undying love for JP Macura. Wisconsin fans are probably some of the most passionate in college basketball. Macura actually had the stones to do what many other players would've loved to do at the Kohl Center, and the hypocritical reaction from Badger fans saying how classless Macura was when they were literally taunting him the entire night shows that JP rattled them to their core. JP Macura, you are the hero college basketball needs.
I'm hoping that this is just the beginning. Macura better yell "ON WISCONSIN" at Villanova, and "SOOIE" at Seton Hall. And I can't wait to see what he does in the NCAA Tournament this year.
Hopefully, Xavier gets to the Final Four and knocks off Kentucky, Duke and North Carolina on the way there. Let's show the blue bloods who's boss.
Oh and if you were wondering whether JP responded to the social media hate from Thursday, here's your answer:
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