The Badgers (11-5, 3-2 Big Ten) beat their highest-ranked regular-season opponent since a win over No. 2 Michigan in 2019. They beat the AP poll’s No. 2 team on the opponent’s court for the second time since winning at Maryland on Feb. 13, 2016.<\/p>\n
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The Wolverines (14-1, 4-1) led by as much as 14 in the first half and lost because they gave up 54 points in the second half.<\/p>\n
Michigan had a game-tying basket waved off by basket interference on Aday Mara<\/a>, who followed up Roddy Gayle Jr<\/a>.’s missed layup with 35.2 seconds left. The call stood after video review.<\/p>\n
Braeden Carrington<\/a> made two free throws on the ensuing possession after being fouled on a long, inbounds pass.<\/p>\n
Carrington split a pair of free throws with 9.6 seconds left for a three-point lead that gave Michigan a shot to tie the game, but Gayle missed a 3.<\/p>\n
Michigan’s Elliot Cadeau<\/a> scored all 19 of his points in the first half, and Morez Johnson Jr<\/a>. scored 13 of 18 points in the first half. Yaxel Lendeborg<\/a> finished with 14 points and Nimari Burnett<\/a> added 10 points for the Wolverines.<\/p>\n
Wisconsin trailed 38-37 at halftime but outscored Michigan 20-7 to start the second.<\/p>\n
Bieliauskas entered the game averaging 4.0 points per game. The freshman forward from Lithuania showed why Greg Gard recruited him early in the second half, making 4 of 4 3-pointers in less than three minutes.<\/p>\n
Wisconsin next visits Minnesota<\/a> on Tuesday, while Michigan heads to the Pacific Northwest for Wednesday’s affair at Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 10, 2026, 04:04 PM ET ANN ARBOR, Mich. — John Blackwell had 26 points, Nick Boyd scored…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":507111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-507110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115873131290703916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}