{"id":528335,"date":"2026-01-11T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:34:12","slug":"no-2-michigan-falls-to-wisconsin-after-letting-14-point-lead-slip-committing-costly-basket-interference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528335\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 2 Michigan falls to Wisconsin after letting 14-point lead slip, committing costly basket interference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin wiped away a 14-point, first-half deficit and held on to beat previously undefeated No. 2 Michigan 91-88 in Ann Arbor on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Badgers (11-5, 3-2 Big Ten) came in ranked 242nd nationally in 3-point percentage (32.61%) but made 15-of-33 attempts from beyond the arc, good for a 45.45% clip on the road against Michigan (14-1, 4-1) after the Wolverines had blown out most of their competition this season.<\/p>\n

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In fact, the Wolverines entered with 10 wins by 20-plus points, including six by 40 or more. Last week, they became the first team since 1996-97 to take down three ranked opponents by at least 30 points<\/a> in a single season, according to The Field of 68<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But this week, which started with Michigan nearly leapfrogging Arizona for the top spot in the AP Poll<\/a>, the Wolverines brushed with defeat at Penn State, where they resisted a second-half Nittany Lions push to escape with a 74-72 victory.<\/p>\n

Four days later, Michigan once again saw a double-digit advantage dwindle. This time, its lead completely vanished, and Dusty May’s crew was the one desperately searching for late-game heroics.<\/p>\n

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It nearly got some from 7-foot-3 center Aday Mara, who cleaned up Roddy Gayle Jr.’s missed layup with a putback dunk over Wisconsin freshman big man Aleksas Bieliauskas. It would have tied the game with 35.2 seconds remaining, but Mara was called for basket interference.<\/p>\n

The play was reviewed, as debate ensued about whether the ball was still hanging over the cylinder when Mara touched it. Ultimately, the call stood, and Wisconsin maintained its two-point advantage.<\/p>\n

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After a Michigan trap, the Badgers reset with a timeout. Then senior Andrew Rohde hurled a three-quarter court pass to fellow guard Braeden Carrington, who elevated for a football-like contested catch and secured it even as he was fouled by Michigan guard Elliot Cadeau.<\/p>\n

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Carrington made both free throws to make it a 90-86 game.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the Wolverines countered with two shots of their own from the charity stripe with 15.6 ticks remaining.<\/p>\n

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Michigan fouled Carrington once more. He was short on his first free-throw attempt yet sank the second. That split set up a potential game-tying 3, but Gayle was off the mark in the contest’s waning moments.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin’s win was its first versus an AP top-two opponent since Jan. 9, 2019, almost seven years to the day of another Badgers upset victory over a second-ranked Wolverines squad.<\/p>\n

The Badgers, who finished the first half on a 20-7 run and shot 10 of 17 from deep in the second half, were led by John Blackwell’s 26 points. Bieliauskas, a 6-foot-10 freshman from Lithuania, had made one of his last 11 triples before Saturday’s game. He hit 5-of-10 3s while scoring 17 points against the Wolverines.<\/p>\n

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Four Michigan players scored in double figures, with Cadeau’s 19 points headlining. But a Wolverines team that started the afternoon second in the country in points per game missed eight of its final nine field-goal attempts, falling short for the first time in what’s been a historic Michigan season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wisconsin wiped away a 14-point, first-half deficit and held on to beat previously undefeated No. 2 Michigan 91-88…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[8763,3069,21373,7,42830,8761,1739,8548,15009,73029,1980,2498],"class_list":["post-528335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-aday-mara","tag-badgers","tag-basket-interference","tag-basketball","tag-braeden-carrington","tag-elliot-cadeau","tag-michigan","tag-penn-state","tag-roddy-gayle-jr","tag-the-wolverines","tag-wisconsin","tag-wolverines"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115873899009293565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528335","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=528335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}