{"id":522218,"date":"2026-01-07T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/522218\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:33:28","slug":"wisconsin-beats-ucla-80-72-in-bruins-first-game-in-madison-since-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/522218\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin beats UCLA 80-72 in Bruins&#8217; first game in Madison since 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP)  Nolan Winter and Nick Boyd combined for 23 first-half points, and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/WISC\/wisconsin-badgers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin<\/a> jumped out early to beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/UCLA\/ucla-bruins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA<\/a> 80-72 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>In the second half, Winter&#8217;s two free throws stretched the Badgers&#8217; lead to 56-39. UCLA answered with a 17-7 run, capped by a Trent Perry 3-pointer to cut its deficit to 63-56 with 8:41 left, but the Bruins didn&#8217;t get closer.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd finished with 20 points and Winter scored 18, and the pair each grabbed eight of the Badgers&#8217; 32 rebounds. John Blackwell added 17 points, and Andrew Rohde 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<p>Eric Dailey 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 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<p>It was UCLA\u2019s first game in Madison since Dec. 22, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA: Hosts Maryland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin: At second-ranked Michigan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP women\u2019s college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-college-basketball<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. (AP) Nolan Winter and Nick Boyd combined for 23 first-half points, and Wisconsin jumped out early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,4262,3471],"class_list":{"0":"post-522218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-ucla-bruins","14":"tag-wisconsin-badgers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115853132045824333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}