Granato gets the axe: Wisconsin to replace men’s ice hockey coach
Tony Granato is out as the Wisconsin men’s ice hockey head coach, according to the university’s athletics department.
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Tony Granato is out as the Wisconsin men’s ice hockey head coach, according to the university’s athletics department.
On the last day of regular season conference play, Wisconsin (17-13, 9-11 Big Ten) traveled to Minnesota (8-21, 2-17) for the second Border Battle of the season.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (11-19, 6-12 Big Ten) and Northwestern (9-19, 2-15) battled it out to the very end until the Badgers pulled ahead 64-57 last Thursday night.
The Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey team (25-10-2) played against the Minnesota Gophers (29-5-2) last Friday in Ridder Arena for the semifinal game of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Final Faceoff.
Close, but not close enough — a phrase that encapsulates the 2022-23 Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball season, including Thursday’s game against No. 5 Purdue, all too well.
As optimism for the Wisconsin men’s basketball season continues to steadily decline, things just took an even more drastic turn. Starting point guard Chucky Hepburn suffered an apparent right knee injury on Sunday against Michigan.
The Wisconsin Women’s Hockey team (25-9-2) showed up and showed out against the Minnesota State Mavericks (15-20-1) in game two of the WCHA playoffs, winning 4-1.
Wisconsin hasn’t taken a football snap at Camp Randall in over three months — though it appears their hockey counterparts are also a second half team.
Wisconsin Softball (6-6) collected four wins this weekend at the Joan Joyce Classic in Boca Raton, Florida. The Badgers took down Boston College (8-7) before beating North Carolina (6-9) twice and finishing the tournament by walking off Villanova (6-9).
On Friday night, the Wisconsin Badgers (24-9-2) women’s hockey team shut down the Minnesota State Mavericks (15-19-1) in a 3-0 win for their first game of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) playoffs. Cami Kronish earned her seventh career shutout, saving all 21 shot attempts from the Mavericks.
The Wisconsin Women’s Hockey team wrapped up their regular season this past weekend and are headed into the first round of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) playoffs against Minnesota State beginning Friday.
Wisconsin women’s basketball played a well-rounded game from start to finish. They’ve had problems in the past finishing games, often giving up leads in the fourth quarter. But this game turned out different, and the home crowd provided a necessary boost.
On a blizzardy evening in Madison, Wisconsin (16-11, 8-9 Big Ten) took down Iowa (17-11, 9-8) in a Big Ten showdown that proved crucial for the Badgers, who were in dire need of a win to attempt to secure a bid in the NCAA Tournament.
On Feb. 3, the Badger women’s ice hockey team skated out on the ice of the Kohl Center to a crowd seven times larger than the capacity of their usual LaBahn Arena. This was the seventh “Fill the Bowl” night — a game that contends for the NCAA’s most-attended women’s hockey game every time it’s played — and the first since the Badgers tied Ohio State 1-1 in 2020 in front of 14,361 fans.
It is safe to say that this season’s Wisconsin Badgers basketball season has been a rollercoaster ride. Nothing has been comfortable. After being projected to finish in the bottom half of the Big Ten, Wisconsin started off the season 11-2. With impressive wins over USC, Marquette, Maryland and Iowa, Wisconsin looked on its way to the tournament by mid-January.
The No. 6 Badgers women’s hockey team took on the No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes this past weekend in an exciting two-game series to finish up the regular season. Wisconsin was able to take home the win Saturday in overtime. Yet on Sunday, the Badgers were unable to maintain their lead, resulting in a devastating 3-1 loss.
Wisconsin’s transformation from bad to good on the ice was about as shocking as Harvey Dent’s about-face from virtuous to evil in “The Dark Knight.”
Wisconsin Softball (2-6) collected its first wins of 2023 this weekend in Atlanta, taking a pair over Georgia Tech while losing both contests versus Louisville.
The Wisconsin Badgers (15-11, 7-9 Big Ten) played host to Rutgers (17-10, 9-7) in the only matchup between these two teams this season — and just the 12th meeting all-time. The Scarlet Knights, who have been on the wrong end of a three game skid, ended the Badgers’ regained momentum from the big win over Michigan on Valentine’s Day, as Rutgers won 58-57.
The Wisconsin Badgers (8-19, 3-12 Big Ten) could not keep up with the second-best team in their conference, the Iowa Hawkeyes (21-5, 13-2), in Wednesday night's Big Ten women’s basketball matchup.