Badgers look to avenge home loss against Illini
The Badgers will travel to Champaign Sunday to take on the Fighting Illini as they look to finish the Big Ten regular season on a high note before beginning postseason play.
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The Badgers will travel to Champaign Sunday to take on the Fighting Illini as they look to finish the Big Ten regular season on a high note before beginning postseason play.
Senior guards Trevon Hughes and Jason Bohannon will lace ‘em up and run out onto the floor of the Kohl Center for the final time when the Badgers face Iowa Wednesday on Senior Night.
Never in my life can I remember so much focus from the sports world on hockey than during the Vancouver Olympics. I was completely hooked, leaving games on in my apartment whenever I was home, whether it be the preliminary round or the gold-medal game. People I knew, who ranged from casual hockey fans to apathetic ones, became invested. The national media turned its focus away from college basketball, the NBA and the NFL offseason to the U.S.-Canada gold-medal game. The sport could not have asked for a better showcase.
Men's basketball head coach Bo Ryan addressed the media Monday, four days after his team clobbered the Hoosiers on the road, 78-46, and ahead of Wisconsin's matchup with Iowa Wednesday in its final home game of the season.
Each year Wisconsin usually sends multiple athletes to the NFL and the NHL system, but only once every few years does a Badger make the NBA. Obviously the size of the rosters has a lot to do with that, and the fact that UW rarely lands a hallmark recruit with an NBA future already mapped out for him. Let's take a look at some Badgers on this year's squad and what kind of chances they have at making the league.
Much has been made of Wisconsin's recent propensity to rely on long-distance shooting. Entering Sunday's game against a much smaller Northwestern team, along with junior forward Jon Leuer playing his first home game since his injury, the Badgers had an opportunity to return to a more balanced offense, and they did that with enough success to hold off the Wildcats yesterday.
Now that a couple weeks have passed since Super Bowl XLIV and the Saints' victory is beginning to wear off around most of the country, much of the discussion around the NFL has revolved around a likely uncapped season in 2010, resulting in a lockout during the 2011 season.
Head coach Bo Ryan addressed the media two days after Wisconsin's 83-55 win over Indiana, as his team now prepares for a road game against Minnesota Thursday.
Last Tuesday, the unthinkable happened when Bo Ryan's Badgers dropped a home contest to an unranked Big Ten squad, something which has never happened before under his watch. But after another loss by Michigan State, Wisconsin has an opportunity to stay in the Big Ten race with a home game against a squad in the lower-half of the Big Ten —Indiana.
I couldn't believe what I heard after Super Bowl XLIV. After a season of reading and watching virtually every NFL analyst declare Peyton Manning the best quarterback in NFL history and a player performing at the height of his career, sports pundits were now debating whether, after one game, Drew Brees is now better than Manning.
The Badgers entered the contest with home-court advantage and a higher ranking than the Fighting Illini, but with junior guard Demetri McCamey playing well, the Fighting Illini knew they had a chance if they received offensive production from their frontcourt against the much smaller Badgers. That's exactly what the underdogs did to earn a major victory for their team this season.
The Badgers pulled to within two games of No. 5 Michigan State after beating the Spartans by 18 points Tuesday, and now look to continue their ascent through the Big Ten Saturday against Michigan.
Head coach Bret Bielema announced his fifth recruiting class yesterday on signing day, a group that includes 24 scholarship players from eight states, in addition to seven walk-ons.
A couple weeks ago when Charles Woodson was announced as the Defensive Player of the Year, Rex Ryan, the head coach of the New York Jets, was asked about the decision. If Ryan followed the rules of coach speak, he would have told reporters he was hoping his cornerback Darrelle Revis would win the award, but that Charles Woodson is a great player and he respects the decision.
Since junior forward Jon Leuer went down with a wrist injury over two weeks ago, Wisconsin has done more than stay afloat. The Badgers are 3-1 without Leuer and have risen to second place in the Big Ten. But tonight brings Wisconsin's greatest test without Leuer, as the No. 16 Badgers (6-2 Big Ten, 16-4 overall) travel to West Lafayette for a critical matchup with No. 12 Purdue (4-3, 16-3).
With the Minnesota Vikings' heartbreaking overtime loss to New Orleans last Sunday came the end of the season for running back Adrian Peterson. And it was a strange year for Peterson. In 2008, he turned in a phenomenal campaign, rushing for a league-best 1,760 yards, averaging 4.8 yards per carry and running for at least 100 yards 10 times.
After narrowly avoiding their first multi-game losing streak of the season against Michigan, the Badgers shift their focus to their second meeting of the season with Penn State Sunday.
Everyone has heard of the idea of separation of church and state. Well now I'm proposing a new one: the separation of church and sports.
Coming back from winter recess is typically strange when following the Wisconsin men's basketball team. Before the break, Wisconsin has usually only played games against one or two worthy foes, which means many questions about how good the team is in a given year remain unanswered. Then, many students leave Madison for a month, and by the time they return, the Badgers have then played in five or six Big Ten games, and fans now have a pretty good idea of how the team can play that season. Ironically, the period when most students are out of town is one of the most important stretches of Wisconsin's schedule.
After producing mixed results on the road last week and playing its first two games without injured junior forward Jon Leuer, No. 19 Wisconsin returns home for a two-game stretch, beginning tonight against Michigan.