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Men's Basketball: Doing the dirty work

By Whitney Newman and Max Sternberg | Mar. 20, 2013

Everyone in sports loves to praise the unnamed, “unsung heroes” who work behind the scenes to ensure athletes at every level have the best chance to succeed on the playing field. Quarterbacks love to shed praise on their linemen, pitchers love to talk about the impact of a catcher on a perfect game and golfers always give credit to their caddies for keeping them calm en route to a major championship.

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Men's Basketball: Wisconsin falls to Ohio State in Big Ten title game

By Max Sternberg and Mary Chen | Mar. 17, 2013

CHICAGO- Storybook endings are nice but in the world of sports, they rarely come to fruition. After three games against top-10 competition this weekend in Chicago, the slipper finally fell off of Cinderella’s foot as No. 22 Wisconsin (12-6 Big Ten, 23-11 overall) went without a field goal over the final 7:03 that turned a 41-39 lead into a 50-43 loss at the hands of No. 10 Ohio State (13-5, 26-7).

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Men's Basketball: Wisconsin advances to tournament title game with win over Indiana

By Vince Huth | Mar. 16, 2013

CHICAGO—Wisconsin had beaten Indiana 11 straight times entering Saturday’s Big Ten tournament semifinal game. It’s difficult to beat any team that many games in a row, especially when the opponents are perhaps too familiar with one another from playing in the same conference.

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Men's Basketball: Badgers ride second half turnaround to victory over Michigan

By Max Sternberg | Mar. 15, 2013

CHICAGO—Normally when a team makes just four of its first 28 shots against the No. 6 team in the country, it is going to finish on the losing end. But if there is one thing we have learned about the 2012-’13 edition of Wisconsin men’s basketball, it is that they are anything but normal. Despite scoring just 17 points in the first half, the Ke$ha-loving Badgers (22-10 overall) found a second gear after halftime and put up 51 points over the final 20 minutes en route to a 68-59 victory over the Wolverines to advance to the Big Ten tournament semi-final round.

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Men's Basketball: Badgers prepare for rematch with Michigan

By Vince Huth | Mar. 15, 2013

Wisconsin arguably benefited the most from the Big Ten’s single-play cycling schedule this season, drawing both Indiana and Michigan only once during the regular season slate.

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Men's Basketball: Bo Ryan honored by B1G as conferences’s coach of the year

By Taylor Valentine | Mar. 11, 2013

Bo Ryan has done it again. The Badger men’s basketball coach received his third Big Ten Coach of the Year honor Monday after leading Wisconsin (12-6 Big Ten, 21-10 overall) to a fourth-place finish in arguably the best conference in college basketball.

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Men's Basketball: Jackson’s buzzer-beater puts Badgers past Penn State

By Whitney Newman and Vince Huth | Mar. 10, 2013

The first 39 minutes, 56 seconds weren’t the prettiest, but No. 22 Wisconsin (12-6 Big Ten, 21-10 overall) escaped with a win at Penn State (2-16, 10-20) on sophomore guard Traevon Jackson’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer Sunday at the Bryce Jordan Center.

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Men's Basketball: Badgers fall in East Lansing

By Max Sternberg | Mar. 8, 2013

EAST LANSING, Mich.—Wisconsin did not get Michigan State’s best Thursday night. The Izzone was on spring break, the band was out of town and the Spartans couldn’t find the backside of a barn in the first half. The Badgers’ problem was that they couldn’t find it, either. Wisconsin (11-6 Big Ten, 20-10 overall) continued to struggle shooting the basketball, making just 15-of-51 (29 percent) from the field en route to a resounding 58-43 defeat in East Lansing, Mich.

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Women's Basketball: Wisconsin knocks off Illinois in conference tournament

By Jonah Beleckis | Mar. 8, 2013

Losing by 10 at halftime to a favored team that had already beaten UW twice this season; it appeared the Wisconsin women's basketball team (3-13 Big Ten, 12-18 Overall) was looking at the end of its season.

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Men's Basketball: Badgers and Spartans vie for chance at title

By Max Sternberg | Mar. 7, 2013

Though it seemed as if Wisconsin had squandered any chance at a share of the Big Ten regular season title with Sunday’s senior day loss to Purdue, a win Thursday night in East Lansing would put the Badgers just a single win and an Indiana loss from the crown.

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Men's Basketball: Badgers prepare for Spartans on road

By Vince Huth | Mar. 6, 2013

Either No. 22 Wisconsin (11-5 Big Ten, 20-9 overall) or No. 10 Michigan State (11-5, 22-7) will be eliminated from regular season conference championship contention after the teams’ showdown Thursday in East Lansing.

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Women's Basketball: Wisconsin women take on Illinois in opening round of Big Ten Tournament

By Jonah Beleckis | Mar. 6, 2013

The Wisconsin women's basketball team (3-13 Big Ten, 11-18 overall) will need a win against Illinois (9-7, 16-12) to keep their season alive. History is not on the side of the Badgers, as they have lost to the Illini all three times they have met up in the Big Ten tournament and have lost the teams' two meetings this season.

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Men's Basketball: Wisconsin still in hunt for Big Ten title

By Vince Huth | Mar. 6, 2013

A four-way tie atop the Big Ten conference at season’s end is entirely plausible after No. 14 Ohio State beat the No. 2 Hoosiers at Assembly Hall Tuesday, 67-58.

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Men's Basketball: Upset at the Kohl Center

By Molly Reppen and Max Sternberg | Mar. 4, 2013

The old adage goes something like, “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.” Unfortunately, the Badgers bought into that sentiment a bit too much Sunday afternoon, missing their final 18 attempts from 3-point range in a 69-56 loss at the hands of Purdue.

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Women's Basketball: Wisconsin drops final regular season game at Michigan State

By Jonah Beleckis | Mar. 4, 2013

The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (3-13 Big Ten, 11-18 Overall) will only have one more chance to “finish strong,” as it says on bracelets worn during each practice. The Badgers’ regular season came to an end Sunday in a 54-48 loss at Michigan State (10-6 Big Ten, 22-7 Overall).

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Men's Basketball: Badgers hosting Purdue in final regular season game at Kohl Center

By Vince Huth | Feb. 28, 2013

Five Badgers will suit up for their final game at the Kohl Center Sunday when Purdue (6-9 Big Ten, 13-15 overall) visits Wisconsin (11-4, 20-8) in the midst of UW’s push to capture a share of the regular season conference championship.

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Women's Basketball: Wisconsin set to host red-hot Cornhuskers

By Adee Feiner | Feb. 28, 2013

Having lost three out of its last four games, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team (3-11 Big Ten, 11-16 overall) looks to finish its regular season slate on a high note as Nebraska (11-3, 21-6) comes to Madison for UW’s final home game before the Big Ten conference tournament.

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Men's Basketball: Dekker leads Badgers in rout of Nebraska

By Max Sternberg | Feb. 27, 2013

Wisconsin freshman forward Sam Dekker has slowly worked his way into the conversation for Big Ten freshman of the year with four straight games in double figures. But after a career-high 19 points Tuesday against Nebraska, Dekker not only has himself squarely in the driver’s seat for that honor, but may just be positioned for sixth man of the year as well. Checking in just six minutes into the game with the score tied at 8, Dekker helped the Badgers explode on a 24-2 run that erased what had been a 12-11 Nebraska lead and replaced it with a 35-14 UW advantage.

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Badger basketball teams head into home stretch of Big Ten play

By Jack Baer | Feb. 26, 2013

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Men's basketball: Wisconsin hosts Huskers in Big Ten matchup

By Kelly Kallien and Vince Huth | Feb. 26, 2013

Nebraska (4-10 Big Ten, 13-14 overall) has been more competitive this season than its four conference wins would suggest. While the Cornhuskers have yet to come away with a win against the Big Ten’s upper echelon, they have certainly made things interesting in a handful of such games.