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BASKETBALL

Badgers roll past Buckeyes in dominating fashion

By Ben Pickman | Jan. 13, 2017

Senior guard Bronson Koenig scored 21 points on five-of-seven shooting from three and senior forward Nigel Hayes added 15 points and four assists as yet again the No. 18 Wisconsin Badgers (3-1 Big Ten, 14-3 overall) bounced back from a loss, upending the Ohio State Buckeyes (0-4, 10-7) by a score of 89-66. The Badgers shot a mere 14 percent from three in their 11-point loss to Purdue over the weekend, but Thursday night, in their last home game before classes resume, Wisconsin regained its three-point stroke. UW, led by Koenig, made 12 of their 22 three-point attempts in what was one of its best offensive performances of the season.

Beata Nelson won two events against USC on Sunday.
SPORTS

Badgers head west for tough test at USC

By Kelly Ward | Jan. 13, 2017

After a week of heavy training in Hawaii, the No. 19/No. 14 Wisconsin swim and dive team is back on the road to take on No. 16/No. 8 USC at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center in Los Angeles this Friday. The Badgers went into the semester break on a high thanks to many top times and school records at the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational, but the level of competition in L.A.

Taylor
SPORTS

Badgers welcome Buckeyes, look to improve Big Ten record

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Jan. 12, 2017

Following their first loss in the Big Ten at the hands of No. 17 Purdue, the No. 18 Wisconsin Badgers (2-1 Big Ten, 13-3 overall) return home to Madison to welcome a struggling Ohio State (0-3, 10-6) team that has yet to win a top-level matchup this season. The Buckeyes got off to a relatively strong start to the year, coasting through their first five games into a date with then No. 6 Virginia.

Ethan Happ
BASKETBALL

Badgers down Hoosiers, return to Indiana to face Boilermakers

By Ben Pickman | Jan. 7, 2017

After No. 13 Wisconsin’s (2-0 Big Ten, 13-2 overall) 53-point victory over Florida A&M in late December, head coach Greg Gard candidly admitted that his team’s “mountain gets a lot steeper” as they enter conference play. With two conference wins, including an impressive 75-68 victory over No. 25 Indiana (0-2, 10-5), the Badgers have successfully reached their first conference plateau. Like any good climbers, the Badgers entered Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday evening prepared for the rough terrain they were set to face.

Cephus
FOOTBALL

Wisconsin executes game plan to near perfection in defeat of Western Michigan

By Lorin Cox | Jan. 3, 2017

The No. 8 Wisconsin Badgers beat the No. 15 Western Michigan Broncos in the Cotton Bowl by playing their style of football: a slow, efficient offense complimenting a punishing and consistent defense. Paul Chryst’s team is not one that will have a lot of opportunities to blow opponents out, but they grind and wear down all challengers for four quarters, pulling ahead and staying ahead as they did in their 24-16 victory Saturday in Dallas. It started, as it has all season, with senior running back Corey Clement and the rushing attack.

McMorris
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Women's basketball: Big Ten preview

By Cal Larsen and Isaiah De los Santos | Jan. 1, 2017

After floundering to a 47-100 record over the past five seasons under head coach Bobbie Kelsey, Wisconsin women’s basketball fired Kelsey, looking for a coach to rebuild and retool the program. The team found that person in new head coach Jonathan Tsipis, a former Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year, and a key component of Notre Dame’s recruitment corps that built a powerhouse program. This season, the team has welcomed in eight new players––six of which are freshman.

BASKETBALL

Trice, UW dust Florida A&M in final warmup game before conference play

By Ben Pickman | Dec. 26, 2016

Final exams might have taken up much of the No. 14 Wisconsin Badgers’ (11-2) time over the past week, but Friday night, in UW’s final tune-up before Big Ten conference play, the Badgers passed any possible test, breezing by Florida A&M (2-11), 90-37. After UW’s victory over Green Bay last Wednesday, the Badgers had the weekend off to prepare for finals.

Jonathan Tsipis
BASKETBALL

Wisconsin upsets Green Bay on the road

By Isaiah De los Santos | Dec. 22, 2016

The Badgers came into Green Bay with wins against Butler (3-7), Tennessee State (3-5), Illinois State (3-6) and Mississippi Valley State (3-5), while UWGB had gone 8-1 up to that night, with the one loss coming at the hands of the No. 2 team in the country, Notre Dame.

Ethan Happ
BASKETBALL

Happ hits unprecedented jump shot, Badgers coast to victory

By Ben Pickman | Dec. 15, 2016

Ethan Happ spent the entirety of his summer working to improve his jump shot. But it wasn’t until a zero-degree day, with snow lining the Madison sidewalks, that the sophomore forward showed off his work. “It gave me a little bit of a chill feeling,” Happ said of the first basket he’s made outside of the paint while at UW. Happ’s jumper, with just over nine minutes to play in the first half, came in the midst of No. 14 Wisconsin’s (10-2) best offensive stretch of the night.

T.J. Watt's performance for the Badgers defense earned him the football team's Athlete of the Semester. 
SPORTS

Top athletes from a momentous semester

By Daily Cardinal Staff | Dec. 12, 2016

By several different measures, this was arguably the greatest semester in Wisconsin athletic history. The football team went from unranked all the way up to No. 8 in the country, providing plenty of heart-stopping moments along the way and coming up just shy of a Big Ten title and a College Football Playoff berth. The volleyball team earned its first ever No. 1 ranking before falling in heart-breaking fashion in the Elite Eight.

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