{"id":435798,"date":"2026-01-25T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:04:07","slug":"ucla-71-64-northwestern-25-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435798\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA 71-64 Northwestern (25 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> and Trent Perry<\/a> combined for 28 first-half points and finished with 18 points apiece, leading UCLA to a 71-64 victory over Northwestern on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

UCLA used a 10-0 surge to take a 41-27 lead late in the first half and led 41-31 at the break. The Bruins had its largest lead, 58-42 with 12:50 to play. Later in the second half, Northwestern’s 7-0 spurt cut its deficit to 62-56. Jamar Brown<\/a> answered with a 3-pointer and the Bruins then sealed it from the free-throw line. <\/p>\n

Bilodeau didn’t miss a shot in the first half, going 6 of 6 from the floor with four 3-pointers. He made a layup early in the second half before finally missing on a 3-pointer with 6:43 to play. He finished 7-of-11 shooting from the floor and 4 of 8 from long range. Perry scored 12 first-half points and and was 6 of 12 overall. <\/p>\n

Donovan Dent<\/a>, who scored 23 points and had 13 assists in the Bruins’ 69-67 win over No. 4 Purdue on Wednesday, added 13 points and five assists against the Wildcats.<\/p>\n

Eric Dailey<\/a> Jr. chipped in with 11 points and eight rebounds for UCLA (14-6, 6-3 Big Ten), which has won four of its last five games.<\/p>\n

Nick Martinelli<\/a> scored 20 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead Northwestern (9-11, 1-8). Tre Singleton<\/a> had 12 points and six rebounds. The Wildcats have lost six of their last seven games. <\/p>\n

UCLA is 7-1 in the series. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

UCLA: At Oregon on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Northwestern: Hosts Penn State on Thursday.<\/p>\n

—— Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Tyler Bilodeau and Trent Perry combined for 28 first-half points and finished with 18…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-435798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}