Badgers end regular season undefeated with sweep against Michigan
After winning their second straight Big Ten conference title, the Badgers swept the Wolverines to finish their season undefeated.
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After winning their second straight Big Ten conference title, the Badgers swept the Wolverines to finish their season undefeated.
In what seems to be an increasingly frequent occurrence, the NCAA has been making headlines as its dated and oppressive practices are finally being legitimately questioned. Of course, once Americans’ craving for sports outweighs their curiosity about social justice, as it eventually does every time the NCAA is put on the hot seat, the organization will resume its status as the unopposed facilitator of college sports.
Wisconsin (14-0) swept Michigan (4-8) 25-23, 25-12, 25-11 Thursday night to earn the title of Big Ten Conference champions for the second year in a row. This is the seventh time in program history that the Badgers have walked away with the trophy, and only the second time they’ve been back-to-back champions.
The Badgers had to turn their bus around after their series against the Nittany Lions was cancelled Thursday night.
Tomorrow the Wisconsin women’s soccer team will face their biggest test of the season when the Rutgers Scarlet Knights travel to Madison in the penultimate match of the 2021 Big Ten season. It will be a matchup loaded with implications- Rutgers needs a win to stay alive in their title fight with Penn State, and the Badgers need a win if they want to continue to control their destiny on their path to an NCAA tournament bid.
Collegiate athletics have been plagued for years facing issues of exploitative practices when it comes to how they support college athletes. College athletes face many challenges when it comes to funding their education — especially athletes competing in sports outside the NCAA’s primary revenue streams and women’s athletes.
The week after Selection Sunday and before the beginning of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is always a frenzied week in sports. Fans can’t get enough insights on their brackets as they furiously try to pick the right upsets. Everyone from high school students to CEOs try to figure out how they’re going to get out of work to watch the first round. Frankly, it’s one of the most beautiful sights in sports. Diehard college basketball fans work so hard to score the perfect bracket only to lose to their stoner roommate who picked the biggest upset of the year because he thought Oral Roberts sounded funny.
After seven consecutive postponed matches, the No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers (11-0) reminded everyone why they’re so deserving of their first place ranking when they returned to the court to face No. 5 Minnesota (11-2) on Sunday night. The Badgers defeated the Gophers in four sets, 25-14, 22-25, 25-15, 25-23.
The momentum of a blowout win against North Carolina wasn’t enough for the Wisconsin Badgers (18-13 overall, 10-10 Big Ten) to overcome the No. 1 seed Baylor Bears (24-2 overall, 13-1 Big 12) as they lost in the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 by a score of 76-63.
"Let's talk to the hero," ESPN announcer Clay Matvick said.
March Bradness was in full effect Friday night, as the senior dropped a season high 29 points to lead the 9-seed Wisconsin Badgers (18-12 overall) over the 9-seed North Carolina Tar Heels 85-62 to move on to the Round of 32.
It’s that time of year again.
It is a goddamn miracle we have made it this far into the college basketball season — COVID-19 threatened to ruin a lot of dreams this year, but we finally made it to March Madness.
Alright, let’s get ahead of it now. If you have a gambling problem call 1-800-GAMBLER. Sports gambling isn’t legal in Wisconsin. We don’t condone gambling, and all that.
Well, the Wisconsin Badgers (17-12 overall, 10-10 Big Ten) have somehow finally crawled out of the Shawshank Redemption-esque sewer that is the Big Ten Conference this year and have emerged in Indiana with a No. 9 seed for the NCAA Tournament. Unfortunately for Greg Gard and company, the Badgers got an incredibly unfavorable matchup in the No. 8 seed North Carolina Tar Heels (18-10 overall, 10-6 ACC).
The madness is back.
In a defensive stalemate, the Wisconsin Badgers (15-3-1) were able to outlast the Providence Friars (12-8-1) by a score of 3-0 to advance to their seventh-straight Frozen Four.
You can’t have it both ways, UW.
This semifinal game was quite literally March Madness –– for Big Ten playoff hockey.
The (technically) reigning champions Wisconsin women's hockey team (14-3-1) starts their quest to defend their two-year-old title on Tuesday in Erie, PA. The No. 2 seed Badgers face No. 15 Providence in the first round.