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The Badgers basketball team has lower expectations this season as evidence by the slower sell out of student season tickets.

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'We'd rather beat them next week, anyways': Davison scores career-high 30 points, but UW falls to MSU

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Feb. 25, 2018

"We'd rather beat them next week, anyways." That was the message Brad Davison gave to his teammates after the Wisconsin Badgers’ (7-11 Big Ten, 14-17 overall) 68-63 loss to No. 2 Michigan State (16-2, 28-3) on Senior Day Sunday afternoon. In the team’s final game of the regular season, Davison exploded for a career-high 30 points, the most by a Wisconsin freshman since 1996.

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Wisconsin comes up short to No. 2 Michigan State

By Ben Pickman | Feb. 25, 2018

No matter how many times freshman guard Brad Davison clapped his hands on defense, let out fist pumps to the crowd on offense or hit highly contested jumpers, No. 2 Michigan State (16-2 Big Ten, 28-3 overall) failed to go away. Wisconsin’s (7-11, 14-16) 68-63 loss on Senior Day marked yet another time the Badgers have hung with some of its top opponents, but failed to close the deal.

After three years, Andy Van Vliet is leaving UW-Madison.

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Wisconsin looks to contain MSU's big men on Senior Day

By Ben Pickman | Feb. 25, 2018

In late January, when Wisconsin (7-10 Big Ten, 14-16 overall) fell to No. 2 Michigan State (15-2, 27-3), a talented trio of Spartan frontcourt players proved too much to handle for the undersized Badgers.

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Depth on display as Wisconsin knocks off Northwestern

By Ben Pickman | Feb. 22, 2018

Andy Van Vliet has spent the majority of the 2017-’18 season playing on Wisconsin’s practice scout team.

WOMEN'S TENNIS

Wisconsin hits road looking for upset over two undefeated foes

By Jon Brockman | Feb. 22, 2018

The Wisconsin women’s tennis team (6-4) will travel to Blacksburg, Va. this weekend to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies (6-0) and James Madison Dukes (6-0), two teams with whom the Badgers do not have much history. After starting the season off hot, UW will hope to rebound from a four-match losing streak, which saw it drop to 6-4 on the season.

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Iverson doing Hayes impression as Wisconsin readies for Northwestern

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Feb. 22, 2018

As the Wisconsin men’s basketball team (6-10 Big Ten, 13-16 overall) prepares for its final road trip of the season, Khalil Iverson finds his role perpetually growing.

Bronson Koenig at Standing Rock - The Players' Tribune

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'Rezpect the game': Basketball a unifying force for Native American communities

By Ben Pickman | Feb. 22, 2018

Last fall, when Bronson Koenig arrived at the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota and exited the trailer that he and his brother Miles had driven 14 hours in, it was nearly midnight.

Cultural appropriation is widespread and is especially apparent in the form of sports mascots.

COLUMNS

Cultural appropriation on full display in Wisconsin and beyond in form of mascots

By Kelly Ward | Feb. 22, 2018

Last month, the Cleveland Indians voted to remove their Chief Wahoo imagery from their uniforms effective next year. Cleveland’s Chief Wahoo and other Native American mascots have been the source of years of controversy due to their inaccurate depiction of indigenous peoples.

SOFTBALL

Wisconsin seeking hot start to Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic

By Jonathan House | Feb. 22, 2018

This weekend, the Wisconsin Badgers (4-4) will be competing in the the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Palm Springs, Calif. UW will start out the tournament by taking on the Auburn Tigers and the Oklahoma State Cowgirls on Thursday before taking on the Fresno State Bulldogs on Friday.

Senior forward Marsha Howard had 16 points while Imani Lewis put up 18 in Wisconsin's loss to Rutgers Monday night.

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Howard has career-night but Badgers fall to Michigan State in regular season finale

By Michael Parsky | Feb. 22, 2018

Despite a dominating performance from star forward Marsha Howard, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team dropped its regular season finale, 69-61 to Michigan State in East Lansing, Mi.

Senior forward Marsha Howard recently became the seventh Wisconsin player to record 1,000 career points, and will finish her career at the Kohl Center Thursday night against Ohio State.

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Badgers hit road looking for upset over Michigan State

By Michael Parsky | Feb. 21, 2018

With the Big Ten conference tournament just around the corner, teams will be jocky for seeding, seniors will celebrate and participate in their last home games, and as for those sitting on the bubble, every game counts. After a disappointing performance against the Iowa, in which the potent Hawkeye offense shot a season-best 57.9 percent from the field, the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team takes the road one last time as it travels up to East Lansing, Mi.

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Pritzl, Davison star for Badgers as UW survives against Minnesota

By Ben Pickman | Feb. 20, 2018

On the first day of February, Brevin Pritzl missed all eleven of his shots in an eight-point loss to Northwestern.

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Wisconsin survives in overtime against Minnesota

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Feb. 19, 2018

If there was any hangover from the Wisconsin Badgers’ (6-10 Big Ten, 13-16 overall) massive upset of Purdue Thursday night, it missed Brad Davison.

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Riding high after its upset over Purdue, Wisconsin welcomes struggling Minnesota to Kohl Center

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Feb. 19, 2018

The Wisconsin men’s basketball team (5-10 Big Ten, 12-16 overall) has seen more than its fair share of downs in what has turned out to be one of its most disappointing seasons in recent memory. But as the Badgers welcome an equally downtrodden Minnesota (3-12, 14-14) team to the Kohl Center Monday night, they’ll be riding higher than at any other point this season. Just 20 minutes after steadily raising the jersey of Frank Kaminsky to the rafters Thursday evening, the UW players found themselves engulfed by a sea of fans at center court as they collectively celebrated a massive upset of then-No. 6 Purdue.

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Wisconsin's road struggles continue in conference opener with Minnesota

By Alex Young | Feb. 19, 2018

The Wisconsin men’s tennis tennis team (0-1 Big Ten, 5-5 overall) continued an unsettling trend Saturday night in Minneapolis.

Beata Nelson had a record-setting performance in the Big Ten Championships.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

'Dream come true' as Nelson has record-setting performance, but UW finishes fifth

By Kelly Ward | Feb. 17, 2018

After being shut out of the top two in all three of her individual events at last year’s Big Ten Championships, sophomore swimmer Beata Nelson knew it was time to drop the hammer and show the conference and the country what she could do.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Wisconsin seeking road success as regular season nears end

By Peyton Kadlecek | Feb. 17, 2018

The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (2-12 Big Ten, 9-18 overall) will play its last two games of the regular season on the road, the first of which is this Sunday Feb.

Kristen Campbell made a season-high 30 saves, including 18 in the third period, to hold off the Gophers on Sunday.

WOMEN'S HOCKEY

Wisconsin blanks Minnesota on Senior Night

By Nathan Denzin | Feb. 17, 2018

Defense was the name of the game Saturday afternoon, as No. 1 Wisconsin faced off against No. 7 Minnesota in the final game of the WCHA regular season.

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Wisconsin rebounds from sub-par West Coast swing with victory over Marquette

By Simon Fischer | Feb. 17, 2018

The University of Wisconsin men’s tennis team (5-4) bounced back from a tough road trip with a resounding 6-1 victory over in-state rival Marquette (5-2) on Friday at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.

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Wisconsin fights for comeback victory over Minnesota

By Christopher Wozniak | Feb. 16, 2018

It was an exciting game at LaBahn Arena tonight, with Wisconsin grinding out one of its most gritty wins of the season by a score of 4-3 over the No. 7 Minnesota Golden Gophers.