{"id":196932,"date":"2025-12-21T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196932\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:54:07","slug":"badgers-tame-jaguars-in-final-non-conference-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196932\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers tame Jaguars in final non-conference battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (9-3, 1-0 B1G) outlasted IU Indy (4-8, 0-3 Horizon) in their final home game of 2025, securing an 81-72 victory to wrap up their non-conference slate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The team has now improved its home record to 8-0 on the season, marking the best start at the Kohl Center since the 2006-07 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UW had four players finish with double figures in the scoring column, led by 17 from Breauna Ware<\/a>. Laci Steele<\/a> added career-highs with 13 points and eight rebounds. Kyrah Daniels<\/a> and Lily Krahn<\/a> each chipped in 10 points in the winning effort, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wisconsin burst out of the gates with a 9-0 run, capped off by a layup from Ware. After a strong first quarter for Wisconsin, the Jaguars responded with a 10-2 run of their own to tie the game up at 21-21 in the second period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UW created some separation toward halftime, as Ronnie Porter<\/a> connected on a 3-pointer late to extend the Badgers’ lead to 33-27 at the break.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ware maintained the momentum for Wisconsin in the third period, converting on back-to-back 3-pointers. Shay Bollin<\/a> followed it up with a 3-pointer of her own to put UW up 45-33, forcing a Jaguars’ timeout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UW and IU Indy continued to trade buckets throughout the latter half of the frame, as Wisconsin entered the fourth quarter with a 61-43 advantage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite a late flurry for the Jaguars, the Badgers were able to close it out and win their third game in a row. UW out-rebounded IU Indy 40-16 on the afternoon, powering them to another victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wisconsin shot 29-60 (48.3%) from the field while also finishing 13-14 (92.9%) at the free throw line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Up Next: The Badgers will hit the road to take on No. 7 Maryland at the XFINITY Center on Monday, Dec. 29. Tip-off is slated for 3:00 p.m. CT and the game will be streamed on B1G+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (9-3, 1-0 B1G) outlasted IU Indy (4-8, 0-3 Horizon) in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-196932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}