OMAHA, Neb. -- The only person that's been able to shut down Kansas State's Michael Beasley this season is teammate Bill Walker. And that's only happened on the virtual college basketball court.

"I pretty much (stink) at video games," Beasley said Thursday. "Especially when I'm playing Bill. I just can't win. We play Kansas State versus Kansas State and he will double team Mike Beasley. I can't get no shots (off)."

Walker immediately interjected, calling his digital strategy against the Wildcats' freshman forward a "smart move."

On the actual hardwood this season, Kansas State's opponents have come up with no such solution for stopping Beasley.

And the next team that has the task of attempting to slow the 6-foot-10, 235-pound Beasley is the sixth-ranked University of Wisconsin, which has a date today with 11th-seeded Kansas State (21-11) in an NCAA tournament second-round game at the Qwest Center.

"You can look at the schedule and ask all the other guys that have tried to stop him," said UW senior center Brian Butch, after being asked what the third-seeded Badgers (30-4) could do to stop Beasley. "It's pretty tough. I don't think you're going to stop him. He's just too good of a player. For us, we've really got to concentrate on playing good, solid team defense. I think that's how we're going to have to get it done. There's not going to be one guy that's going to stop him, or one team that's going to really stop what he does. You've got to really just try to slow him down."

Beasley, a surefire lottery pick in this year's NBA draft if he elects to leave school, is averaging 26.3 points and 12.3 rebounds per game -- numbers that each rank among the top five nationally. And he's recorded 27 double-doubles this season, the most by a collegiate player since Tim Duncan totaled 29 in 1996-97.

"It's a combination of skill and agility and strength and basketball IQ. He's just got so much ability, and it's not wasted in any sense," UW assistant coach Howard Moore said of Beasley. "He's a quality player, and he brings a lot of qualities to the college game. It's just a breath of fresh air, as a fan, to see a kid come in and give you that. Because in the past, a kid like that would have gone straight to the NBA and we wouldn't be able to experience him in the NCAA tournament."

On the defensive end of the court for the Badgers, the up-close-and-personal Beasley experience will most likely belong to junior forward Marcus Landry most of the time. The 6-7, 220-pound Landry, though, is accustomed to guarding bigger players.

Last season, he matched up with 7-footers Greg Oden (Ohio State) and Aaron Gray (Pittsburgh). He's also played Indiana's D.J. White extensively over the past couple of seasons.

"It helped me a lot," Landry said of those previous experiences. "Just being able to be in that position before, (guarding) somebody that's a great player. ...really helps me. I know what I have to do."

What Landry and the Badgers will set out to do, first and foremost, is limit Beasley's touches.

Beasley, who averages 17.4 field goal attempts per game, is shooting 53.6 percent from the field overall, including 39.6 percent (36-for-91) from 3-point range. He 's also gone to the free throw line a team-high 272 times this season, where he is converting at a 76.8 percent rate.

"The biggest thing is, you've got to make him work," Moore said. "We've got to get pressure on the ball and not let him get easy looks inside, guard their actions to get him open. It 's not just all post-up. He's going to flare, he's going to come off pin-downs, staggers. He's going to come off a lot of different actions that our bigs haven't guarded an extreme amount."

Landry and the Badgers' other big men won't be all alone when it comes to defending Beasley.

"We've got to stick to our principles, to our rules. And there 's areas of help that are possibilities," UW coach Bo Ryan said. "There's things within our defense that we do in certain situations. But I think they have other weapons, too. ... I'm too old to ever get caught in the thing about talking about one guy.

"Now, when I say we don't just focus on one guy and Beasley gets 56. ... That can happen, too. Hopefully it won't. We'll work to see that it doesn't."