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After extended exhibition season, Wisconsin set to open regular season with win over South Carolina State

By Thomas Valitin-Erwin | Nov. 9, 2017

After more than a quarter of a season’s worth of preseason exhibition games, the regular season has finally arrived for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team. A five-game tour of Australia and three more scrimmages have a young Badgers squad unusually prepared for its opening-night matchup with South Carolina State. “Since we had so many exhibitions, it doesn't really feel that different to me,” freshman guard Kobe King said.

Cayla McMorris's Wisconsin career concluded Wednesday with a loss to Northwestern.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Wisconsin overwhelms UW-Platteville in exhibition

By Michael Parsky | Nov. 9, 2017

With 3:52 left in the third quarter, after Courtney Fredrickson missed free throw, Cayla McMorris muscled her way through three defenders for an offensive rebound, flipped the ball to a diving Suzanne Gilreath, who then dumped it off to Kendall Shaw for an easy layup.

Dana Rettke has been huge for Wisconsin throughout this year, leading the team on and off the court.

VOLLEYBALL

Fresh aces: Hilley, Rettke paving path for prosperous future

By David Gwidt | Nov. 9, 2017

When setter Sydney Hilley and middle blocker Dana Rettke were first brought together for a campus visit in 2014, they didn’t interact much with each other.

D'Mitrik Trice is set to take over Wisconsin's starting point guard spot on a young Badger team.

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Next man up: After roster turnover, D'Mitrik Trice is learning to lead UW

By Ben Pickman | Nov. 8, 2017

Just inside the doorway of an over-crowded locker room in Madison Square Garden, D’Mitrik Trice watched as reporters fired questions to Wisconsin’s four seniors.

Brad Davison drew a blocking foul with two seconds to play in regulation and split a crucial pair of free throws to give UW a 81-80 victory.

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'Hey, hey! Me!:' After departure of Zak Showalter freshman guard Brad Davison appears to be Wisconsin's latest pesky guard

By Thomas Valitin-Erwin | Nov. 8, 2017

Brad Davison stood just behind midcourt at the Badgers’ annual Red-White scrimmage, waiting for the ball.

Wisconsin's Khalil Iverson (21) shoots a three during the game against Illinois at State Farm Center on Tuesday, January 31.

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Roster preview: Happ, Trice highlight young Badger team

By Andrew Guckes and Kelly Ward and Noah Bennett | Nov. 8, 2017

Ethan Happ: Ethan Happ, a redshirt junior from Milan, Ill., received little buzz coming out of high school as a three-star recruit.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

O Canada!: Van Leeuwen looks to bring international experiences to UW

By Morgan Spohn | Nov. 8, 2017

Kendra Van Leeuwen, a sophomore point guard on the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, spent the majority of her summer playing on the Team Canada’s U-19 women’s basketball team.

Sophomore forward Miles Bridges (22) dunks the basketball during the game against Ferris State on Oct. 26, 2017, at the Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Bulldogs, 80-72.

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Michigan State preseason favorite for Big Ten title; parity remains in deep conference

By Simon Fischer | Nov. 8, 2017

Most college basketball fans would agree that the Big Ten is one of the landmark conferences of the sport.

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Duke, Michigan State highlight top of preseason rankings

By Jack Zweifel | Nov. 8, 2017

The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team finds itself out of the AP preseason top-25 rankings for the first time since the 2010-’11 season, a team that was led by the likes of Jordan Taylor, Jon Leuer and Keaton Nankivil.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

In head coach Tsipis' second year, Wisconsin looks to build off experience and chemistry

By Peyton Kadlecek | Nov. 8, 2017

No doubt there is work to be done this season for the Wisconsin women’s basketball team as it hopes to relinquish its lost ground from its 2016-’17 season.

Roichelle Marble and the Wisconsin Badgers' guards struggled to defend Maryland in a blowout loss Sunday.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Maryland, Ohio frontrunners in deep Big Ten

By Michael Parsky | Nov. 8, 2017

In a rugged and competitive Big Ten conference last season, there was a major difference between regular season co-champions, Ohio State and Maryland, and conference bottom feeders, Illinois, Wisconsin, Rutgers and Nebraska. But despite the major differences between first and last, the Big Ten was one of the deepest conferences in the country.

MEN'S TENNIS

Carranza, Dodridge come just short of fairytale ending at ITA Nationals

By Kelly Ward | Nov. 7, 2017

After knocking out the second overall seed in the quarterfinal of ITA Nationals tournament this weekend, seniors Chema Carranza and Joe Dodridge were in uncharted territory.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

McCarthy, Nelson, Novinski shine in Big Ten Quad Duals

Nov. 7, 2017

McCarthy, Nelson, Novinski shine in Big Ten Quad Duals In the first in-conference test of the season, the Wisconsin swim and dive team (1-6 men, 1-6 women) came out of the Big Ten Quad Duals in third place out of four, but achieved some crucial wins in the process. With the star of the women’s team, junior Cierra Runge, still nowhere to be found after missing her fourth straight meet, it was up to other Wisconsin swimmers to pick up the pieces.

Jonathan Taylor made a huge impact during his freshman season. Wisconsin's new class of freshmen have potential to see lots of reps this season, especially on defense

COLUMNS

Taylor worthy of Heisman consideration

By Sebastian van Bastelaer | Nov. 6, 2017

This year ESPN released a list called “Ranking the happiness of every college football fan base.” The survey took into account program power, rivalry dominance, coaching stability, recruiting trend, revenue growth and Twitter buzz.

Freshman guard Brad Davison led the Badgers with 19 points in its win over Milwaukee.

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Davison, King cap preseason with stellar performance against Wisconsin-Stout

By Ben Pickman | Nov. 5, 2017

Freshman Brad Davison couldn’t stop smiling at the post-game dais after Wisconsin’s 85-56 exhibition victory over UW-Stout.

Sophomore forward Alexis Mauermann scored the opening goal of Wisconsin's game on Saturday, but UW fell short, 3-1.

WOMEN'S HOCKEY

Wisconsin stout defensively, remains undefeated after sweep of OSU

By Nathan Denzin | Nov. 5, 2017

The undefeated, No. 1 ranked Badgers (8-0-0 Big Ten, 14-0-0 overall) wrapped up another perfect weekend, defeating, and therefore sweeping, No. 4 Ohio State (5-2-1, 7-2-1) by a final score of 3-1.

VOLLEYBALL

Badgers use comeback effort to draw even in weekend series

By Colleen Muraca | Nov. 5, 2017

After a heart-breaking five-set loss to Ohio State (6-8 Big Ten, 13-12 overall) on Friday, the No. 8 Wisconsin Badgers (7-7 Big Ten, 16-7 overall) were able to once again pull even in Big Ten play by beating University of Maryland (5-9 Big Ten, 16-10 overall) on Saturday 3-1. This weekend, Wisconsin was tasked with having to quickly recover from a match, having back-to-back games for the first time in a while.

Sophomore forward Sean Dhooghe has scored five goals this year to lead a scoring explosion by Wisconsin’s underclassmen.

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Dhooghe duo do it together, each score first goal of career in Wisconsin tie

By Ethan Levy | Nov. 5, 2017

Over the course of this season, Wisconsin has played seven different freshmen, and five of those first-year players have been in the lineup for all 11 games so far.

WOMEN'S HOCKEY

Wisconsin puts on clinic in 7-0 win over Ohio State

By Suzie Kazar | Nov. 4, 2017

Suzie Kazar In a 7-0 drubbing of the No.4 Ohio State Buckeyes (7-1-1, 5-1-1-1 WCHA), the No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers (13-0-0, 7-0-0 WCHA) put on a clinic.

Wisconsin looks to extend its Big Ten Tournament run with a win over Maryland this Sunday.

SOCCER

Wisconsin looks to extend Big Ten Tournament run in matchup against Maryland

By Bremen Keasey | Nov. 4, 2017

In one of their last practices before the Wisconsin Badgers men’s soccer team (4-3-1 Big Ten, 8-4-4 overall) travels to College Park to take on the Maryland Terrapins (5-1-2, 10-4-3) in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, it seemed fitting that it was cold and pouring rain. Last time the Terps and Badgers faced off, the Terps won a sloppy 5-4 thriller in Madison to give the Badgers their only home loss of the season.