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Nick Boyd scored a career-high 36 points in Wisconsin’s 104-83 victory over Providence.

Austin Rapp also had a season-high 20 points and eight rebounds in a bounce-back game.

Wisconsin will face TCU next in the Rady Children’s Invitational championship.

SAN DIEGO — Nick Boyd made a not-so-quick detour on the way to the locker room after Wisconsin’s first game in San Diego — to the point that a UW staffer had to run up the stairs to corral him.

One of the many fans he embraced was “one of my best friends from back home.”

“He came out here, moved out here with me when I came out to San Diego State and then he ultimately ended up having a job out here,” Boyd said. “So he had to stay when I left.”

The ex-San Diego State guard’s postgame friend reunion had cause f

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