{"id":158786,"date":"2026-02-01T04:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158786\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:53:07","slug":"california-gov-newsom-attends-badgers-basketball-game-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158786\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gov. Newsom attends Badgers basketball game | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON (WKOW)\u00a0\u2014 A surprise visitor attended the Badgers&#8217; basketball game Saturday: California Gov. Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin guard Jack Janicki posted a photo with Newsom in the Badgers locker room on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jackjackjanicki?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&amp;igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his Instagram<\/a> story.<\/p>\n<p>A UW Athletics spokesman explained why Newsom was at the game, in a text message sent to 27 News: &#8220;Gavin Newsom\u2019s wife (Jennifer) is the daughter of Ken Siebel, Badger alum and today\u2019s honorary captain. So the Siebel family was in town to support Ken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Siebel is a 2006 UW Hall of Fame inductee, and was the team MVP in 1961, 1962, and 1963. Siebel led a 1962 upset against No. 1 Ohio State by shutting down future NBA Hall of Famer John Havlicek.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>UW Athletic Hall of Famer Ken Siebel returned to Madison as the honorary captain at the Badgers basketball game against Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Badgers won Saturday&#8217;s game 92-82.<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON (WKOW)\u00a0\u2014 A surprise visitor attended the Badgers&#8217; basketball game Saturday: California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Wisconsin guard Jack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26539,7,9,8,100,127,136],"class_list":["post-158786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-badgers","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}