INDIANAPOLIS — Several Wisconsin players are used to the text message that arrives at 11 a.m. Every morning, they are supposed to log in to an app and enter certain data — what they ate for dinner the night before, how their bodies feel, how well they slept. They log in again after practices and answer questions about what they did and how they feel. The information is then crunched for the coaches with a program called Metrifit.

But Wisconsin’s players can be like typical college students: They procrastinate. And so, at 11, they typically receive prodding from the Badgers’ strength and conditioning coach, Erik Helland.

Helland “usually gets mad at me because I’m not too judicious with filling in my information,” the junior forward Sam Dekker said at a news conference Friday.

For the record, Dekker added, “Last night, I got about seven and a half, eight hours, which is not too bad. My last meal, probably a burger. I think it was a burger and guac.” Sitting on the same dais, Coach Bo Ryan could not help but add of Dekker, “He’s big on guac.”