The University of Wisconsin men’s basketballteam spent Thanksgiving Day looking like a group that had solved something offensively, but then Black Friday showed just how quickly this sport can flip the script on you.
A day after lighting up Providence for 104 points, the Badgers walked into the championship game of the Rady Children’s Invitational and got hit with something very different. TCU isn’t all that big, but they’re physical and relentless. And for 40 minutes, that was the difference. Jamie Dixon and the Horned Frogs forced Wisconsin to make mistakes and punished every defensive lapse, handing the Badgers a 74–63 loss in San Diego.