{"id":224880,"date":"2026-01-07T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/224880\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:32:08","slug":"wisconsin-80-72-ucla-jan-6-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/224880\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin 80-72 UCLA (Jan 6, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADISON, Wis. — \u2014 Nolan Winter<\/a> and Nick Boyd<\/a> combined for 23 first-half points, and Wisconsin jumped out early to beat UCLA 80-72 on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

Winter scored 12 points, and Boyd added 11 to help Wisconsin build a 45-31 halftime lead. The Badgers shot 54% overall in the first half and made 8 of 16 from beyond the arc. <\/p>\n

In the second half, Winter’s two free throws stretched the Badgers’ lead to 56-39. UCLA answered with a 17-7 run, capped by a Trent Perry<\/a> 3-pointer to cut its deficit to 63-56 with 8:41 left, but the Bruins didn’t get closer. <\/p>\n

Boyd finished with 20 points and Winter scored 18, and the pair each grabbed eight of the Badgers’ 32 rebounds. John Blackwell<\/a> added 17 points, and Andrew Rohde<\/a> chipped in with 12 for Wisconsin (10-5, 2-2 Big Ten), which bounced back from an 89-73 loss at home on Saturday to fifth-ranked Purdue. <\/p>\n

Eric Dailey<\/a> Jr. scored 18 points on 9-of-17 shooting to lead UCLA (10-5, 2-2 Big Ten), which has lost back-to-back games for the first time this season. Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> scored 16 points, and Perry added 15. The Bruins shot 46% from the field but missed 16 of their 17 3-point shots and were 15 of 23 from the free-throw line. <\/p>\n

It was UCLA\u2019s first game in Madison since Dec. 22, 1962. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

UCLA: Hosts Maryland on Saturday. <\/p>\n

Wisconsin: At second-ranked Michigan on Saturday. <\/p>\n

—— Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a>. AP women\u2019s college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. — \u2014 Nolan Winter and Nick Boyd combined for 23 first-half points, and Wisconsin jumped out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-224880","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\/224880","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=224880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}