Wisconsin at UCLA
(NCAAB) Badgers (WIS) vs. Bruins (UCLA),
Point Spread: 3.50 | -110.00 Badgers (WIS) (Away)
Result: Win
As we don't think beating Iowa these days deserves a lot of extra credit, we're going to think about any buy signal for UCLA until they win this one vs. the Badgers. Not so easy, we're afraid, as Wiscy's dominant win over an ascendant USC on the weekend suggest the Badgers aren't the Hawkeyes (we'll say...Wiscy blew out Iowa 116-85 on January 3). In the current 7-game win streak that has moved the Badgers to No. 18 in the rankings, Greg Gard's bunch is scoring at an 83 pg clip, with a win margin of better than 16 pg. Four different leading scorers the past four games, too; watch emerging soph G John Blackwell, scoring at a 21 pg pace the past five. UCLA, which had been struggling in a 4-game skid, took advantage of the Hawkeyes' non-defense to hit 62% from the floor on Friday; don't expect the same tonight in Westwood. Play Wisconsin