University of Wisconsin men's basketball coach Greg Gard has noted for a while that scoring isn't the way players earn their time onto the floor, despite what new players sometimes misunderstand — it's defense. Yet that fact perhaps wouldn't have mattered for junior forward Xavier Amos on Friday.
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