MADISON, Wis. - In a game that saw senior Nicole Bauman score her 1,000th career point, her last-second shot came up short as the Wisconsin women's basketball team fell to Iowa, 57-54, on Wednesday night at the Kohl center.

Bauman, who became the 24th Badger to score 1,000 points in a career with a first-quarter layup, led a 19-6 comeback in the fourth quarter but Wisconsin came up three points short. The guard finished the game with a team-high 16 points.

Despite the loss, Wisconsin held Iowa (13-4, 3-2 Big Ten) to only six points in the fourth quarter, a season low for the Hawkeyes.

"Obviously, we're disappointed, but we had some looks and we had some chances," UW head coach Bobbie Kelsey said. "We had a couple good looks there at the end. Avyanna (Young) had her look. You've just got to knock them down.

"I'm proud of us coming back. We were down and we really fought back. That second and third quarter kind of hurt us when we only scored nine and 10 points. We need to look at those quarters and see where we were missing the mark. The last quarter coming back and holding them to six points, which is pretty low for 10 minutes of play."

The Badgers (6-9, 2-3 Big Ten) headed into the fourth, trailing by 16 points (51-35), but refused to let down as a pair of free throws by Dakota Whyte jumpstarted the scoring spree for UW.

The first of six Hawkeye turnovers in the period gave way to a trio of layups from Michala Johnson accompanied by a jumper from Nicole Bauman to bring the Badgers within nine points (52-43) with seven minutes remaining.

Following three more Hawkeye turnovers, the Badgers got on the board again with a layup from Whyte, bringing UW within nine points (54-45) once again with just under five minutes left on the clock.

Wisconsin and Iowa traded buckets to keep the score within nine (56-47) as the clock reached four minutes. The Hawkeyes missed two straight jumpers as the Badgers grabbed the rebound and headed down the court with just under three minutes to play.

Avyanna Young took the first attempt for the Badgers as the junior missed a jumper under pressure. Bauman grabbed the offensive rebound and found Whyte, who sank a jump shot of her own to cut the lead to 56-59 with 2:36 on the clock.

A fifth Hawkeye turnover gave Wisconsin the ball back as Johnson scored on a layup to close the gap to 56-51 with 1:47 remaining. Iowa missed a 3-pointer with 58 seconds to play before Bauman swished in a risky 3-pointer to make it 56-54 with 52 seconds to play.

The sixth and final Iowa turnover allowed the Badgers to regain possession but Young's layup rolled out. The junior was called for a foul with 18 seconds to go as the Hawkeye's Coley Chase missed the first but made the second free throw to make it 57-54 with 18 seconds left. Bauman's 3-point attempt with six seconds to play was off the mark but Tessa Cichy picked up the offensive rebound. The Badgers had one last chance to tie the game but Whyte's long shot as time ran out was also off the mark.

"Obviously your adrenaline is high, you're rushing it, and you're trying to get it up as fast as you can," Bauman said of the last-second attempts. "They were both decent shots. They could've gone in, 50-50 chance."

The Badgers finished the first quarter of the game ahead, 16-11, but were outscored 19-9 in the second quarter to trail 40-35 at the half. Iowa pulled away in the third quarter, leading 51-35 at the end of three periods.

Three Badgers besides Bauman notched double-digit points as Whyte had 14, Young added 12, and Johnson 10. Wisconsin shot 40.7 percent (22-of-54) for the game while Iowa hit 42.6 percent (23-of-54). The Hawkeyes Ally Disterhoft led all scorers with 18 points while Whitney Jennings added 11 points.

UW shot just 22.2 percent (4-of-18) from 3-point range but hit 85.7 percent (6-of-7) from the free throw line.

The Hawkeyes outrebounded the Badgers 36-28 with Young leading Wisconsin in boards with seven.

Wisconsin continued its good ball control, allowing just 10 turnovers while dishing off 11 assists. The Badgers outblocked the Hawkeyes 4-2, including a career-high two from Whyte.

The Badgers take to the road this weekend, traveling to Illinois on Sunday at 2 p.m., from the State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois.