Brandon Jennings led the Bucks on 6 of 6 and led the team with 27 points. Greg Monroe was 8 for 8 for Detroit and he led with 32 points.

Steve Stricker won the first PGA event of 2012 with a three-shot win in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Maui, Hawaii. Stricker shot a 4-under 69 for a three-shot victory over Martin Laird. Stricker finished at 23-under 269. It was his ninth PGA Tour win since he turned 40, and his eighth title in his last 50 tournaments. He moved up to No. 5 in the world. Stricker was the highest-ranked American in the field, and played the best golf.

The Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions put on a record-setting offensive performance that produced more than a thousand combined yards and capped the Packers’ season with a come-from-behind, 45-41 victory that sent the Packers into the postseason with a franchise-best 15-1 record. Playing in place of Aaron Rodgers, Matt Flynn became the first player in Packers history to throw for more than 400 yards and six touchdowns. 

Almost like the seventh game of the World Series, UW-Whitewater played Mount Union for the seventh straight time in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl football game. And, for the fourth time in five years, UWW beat Mount Union. The Warhawks 13-10 win was their third consecutive NCAA Division III football championship. A key turnover led to the Warhawks' only touchdown, and they fended off Mount Union , 13-10, in their seventh consecutive meeting in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl.

The Wisconsin Badgers won the inaugural Big Ten Football title game with a 42-39 win over Michigan State. The win secures a second-straight Rose Bowl berth for the Badgers. The win also avenges a 37-31 loss to the Spartans earlier in the season.

The Wisconsin Badgers men’s cross country team won its fifth NCAA title. The Badgers dethroned two-time defending national champion Oklahoma State to claim their first national title since 2005 and the fifth in program history. UW finished with 97 points, followed by the Cowboys (139) and third-place Colorado (144). Senior Ryan Collins (23rd, 29:52.2), junior Reed Connor (36th, 30:08.6) and junior Maverick Darling (46th, 30:20) rounded out UW's five scorers. Top-40 finishers earn All-American honors.