In late January, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-8 Big Ten, 8-16 overall) pulled off a string of quality conference wins against Northwestern, Minnesota and Michigan to pull itself right into the middle of the Big Ten standings.
When the No. 15/17 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (8-4 Big Ten, 19-6 overall) takes on Penn State (3-10, 11-15) Sunday the athletic department will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 Badgers team.
The No. 21/22 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (7-4 Big Ten, 18-6 overall) looks to rebound off its streak-snapping loss to first place Ohio State Thursday night when it travels to The Barn in Minneapolis to play the border rival Golden Gophers (5-6, 17-7).
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-7 Big Ten, 8-15 overall) hopes to end its two-game losing streak against No. 18/21 Penn State (8-3,18-5), which stands in fourth place in the Big Ten standings.
As head coach of the No. 21/22 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (7-4 Big Ten, 18-6) Bo Ryan is all about improvement. That’s why before the Badgers battled Penn State to a hard fought 52-46 conference victory, Ryan handed his players an article by Pulitzer prize winning columnist and author Thomas Friedman about the pitfalls of not having a college degree as a worker in the 21st century.
Ohio State senior guard Samantha Prahalis scored a career-high 34 points to lead the Buckeyes to a 72-58 victory over the Wisconsin women’s basketball team Monday night at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-6 Big Ten, 8-14 overall) looks to avenge last Thursday’s overtime loss against Iowa and begin a new winning streak against No. 11 Ohio State (7-2, 20-2) Monday in Columbus, Ohio.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-5 Big Ten, 8-13 overall) looks to expand on its three game winning streak against a high-flying Iowa team (4-5, 12-10) at the Kohl Center Thursday as part of UW Student Night. UW students will receive free admission, free pizza and free t-shirts courtesy of Adidas.
The No. 19/20 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (6-3 Big Ten, 17-5 overall) will head into Saturday’s Big Ten matchup with Penn State (2-7 Big Ten, 10-12 overall) riding high after extending its winning streak to five games with a victory over No. 17 Indiana, 57-50, Thursday night.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-5 Big Ten, 8-13 overall) found itself up 47-31 with just over 11 minutes left in the game against Michigan (5-4, 16-6), but allowed a 16-0 run to knot the score at 47 with six minutes remaining. Sophomore guard Morgan Paige finally ended the drought by converting on a tricky left-handed layup. Sophomore forward Cassie Rochel then scored seven of her nine points in the remaining four minutes—along with the team’s stellar free-throw shooting—to hold off the comeback effort. The Badgers came out on top 66-60.
Just two weeks ago it appeared the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s (5-3 Big Ten, 16-5 overall) season was headed for disaster. With three straight losses, including a rare stretch of back-to-back home losses the Badger’s streak of 12 consecutive NCAA tournament births was in jeopardy. Fast forward just sixteen days later and Wisconsin suddenly finds itself only a half game out of first place in the conference after an impressive four-game Big Ten winning streak.
Having seemingly gotten back on their feet after two consecutive losses to top-10 teams North Carolina and Marquette, the No. 14/15 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (8-2 overall) now faces its final road test of the non-conference schedule as it visits in-state rival UW-Milwaukee (2-0 Horizon League, 8-2 overall) Tuesday night.
It was far from pretty, but the Wisconsin men’s basketball team (8-2 overall) team finally picked up the non-conference win it needed as it defeated UNLV (9-2) 62-51 Saturday.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team mounted a late comeback against Drake at the Kohl Center Sunday, but ultimately it wasn’t enough, as the Bulldogs took home a 65-54 victory.
After two straight losses, the No. 16 Wisconsin men’s basketball team got back on track against in-state foe UW-Green Bay. The Badgers (7-2 overall) looked like a team on a mission and soundly defeated the Phoenix (4-5 overall, 2-0 Horizon), 70-42.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-5 overall) won consecutive games for the first time Monday night against St. Louis and look to extend that winning streak Thursday against Kansas (7-1) as part of the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-5 overall) overcame poor shooting and rebounding efforts in the first half against St. Louis (2-6) but came back and managed to hang onto a 48-46 victory at the Kohl Center.
At the beginning of last week the Wisconsin men’s basketball (6-2 overall) team was playing as well as any team in the country.
A strong effort on the offensive end propelled the Wisconsin women’s basketball team to a 58-50 home victory over Boston College in a Big Ten/ACC Women’s Basketball Challenge matchup Wednesday night.
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