The Wisconsin men’s basketball team walked off the floor at Fiserv Forum knowing it had let a meaningful opportunity slip away in a game that mattered, a realization sharpened by the fact that the Badgers now sit at 7–4 overall and have dropped four of their last seven contests.
What began as a sluggish, disjointed evening on both ends of the court eventually turned into a gritty, workmanlike comeback, only to end with the Badgers running out of answers in overtime as Kevin Willard and the Villanova Wildcats (9-2) pulled away for a 76–66 win in Milwaukee.