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"Coach Curry really got on us and she should have because we weren't playing the way we are capable of playing," Katie Douglas said after eighth-ranked Purdue beat Wisconsin 70-58 Thursday night. "We just talked about the second 20 minutes was our half to lose.

"You could see our intensity go up and you could see us playing with a lot more emotion in the second half, and our defense was a lot better." Kelly Komara scored 12 points and Douglas added 11 in the Big Ten opener for both teams.

Shereka Wright had nine points and Camille Cooper and Erika Valek each added eight to help the Boilermakers improve to 11-3.

LaTonya Sims had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Wisconsin (5-4). Jessie Stomski and Tamara Moore had 10 points apiece.

Wisconsin made only 15 of 27 free throws, while Purdue made 19 of 24, including 14 of 16 in the second half.

"The glaring, fatal flaw that all of you can see, when you've got the team everybody has picked to win and you've got them on your home court, if you can't hit free throws, you might as well just say it's not a game," Badgers coach Jane Albright said. "That's my biggest disappointment."

The Badgers, who trailed by as many as eight points in the first half, used a late charge to close within three at halftime. That deficit became one point when Sims scored the first basket of the second half.

But the Boilermakers scored the next 12 points to gain a 46-33 lead and control of the game.

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