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Ann-Renée Desbiens
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Desbiens, Johnson headline Wisconsin's WCHA award winners

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) released postseason award recipients for the 2015-‘16 season Thursday, and the Badgers brought home plenty of hardware. Headlining the Wisconsin recipients are junior goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens, who was awarded WCHA Player of the Year, as well as Mark Johnson, who received WCHA Coach of the Year. Desbiens is currently in the midst of one of the best single-season collegiate campaigns of all time.


LaBahn Arena
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Confident Minnesota Duluth awaits surging Badgers

The No. 3 Wisconsin Badgers (32-3-1) are on to the WCHA Final Face-Off in Minneapolis, Minn. this weekend after easily handling Minnesota State in the quarterfinals, defeating the team by a combined score of 10-0 over two games. Head coach Mark Johnson was naturally pleased with his team’s performance last weekend.


Vitto Brown
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Badgers cruise to easy win at Minnesota

Minnesota’s 2016 senior night will be not be one Gopher fans will want to remember. Earlier Wednesday, Minnesota head coach Rick Pitino suspended teammates Nate Mason, Dupree McBrayer and Kevin Dorsey after an alleged sex video scandal that appeared on Dorsey’s social media account.


Avyanna Young
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Wisconsin ready to face Northwestern to kick off Big Ten Tournament

It’s do-or-die time for the Wisconsin women’s basketball team. The Badgers (3-15 Big Ten, 7-21 overall) head to the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Wednesday for their first (and possibly last) game of the Big Ten Conference Tournament. Many on this veteran UW roster has played in Big Ten Conference Tournament, win-or-go-home, games like this before.


Celebration
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UW coaches evaluate upcoming week

Wisconsin (24-3-1 WCHA, 32-3-1 overall) advanced to the WCHA Final Face-Off in Minneapolis, Minn. after sweeping Minnesota State (0-25-3, 3-29-4) 4-0 and 6-0 at LaBahn Arena. Junior goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens broke the NCAA shutout record Saturday, blanking UW’s opponent for the 18th time this season. Head coach Mark Johnson believes that Desbiens is currently having the best season ever for a goaltender.


Daily Cardinal
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Athlete body shaming is wrong

Perpetuated by celebrity influences, aspirational advertising and the dark, swirling world of social media, the ugly act of body shaming takes shape both within private conversations with friends and very public conversations on the internet.


Greg Gard
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Greg Gard has earned the Wisconsin job

When Greg Gard took over after Bo Ryan stepped down as head coach back in December, an enormous task laid ahead for him. The young Badgers sat at 7-5, including devastating home losses to Western Illinois and Milwaukee, and now had been dealt yet another blow with the loss of their head coach. Sure, the timing of Ryan’s resignation essentially gave Gard a three-month tryout to convince athletic director Barry Alvarez that he was the right man for the job on a permanent basis, but he was inheriting a team that was mired in a state of disarray for which there was no easy solution. Of course, every Wisconsin fan knows how the story has played out since then.


Jordan Smith
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Jordan Smith finally gets his moment in the spotlight

Jordan Smith isn’t used to the spotlight. Throughout his five years in Madison, the redshirt senior guard has lived in relative anonymity when compared to most of his teammates, a group that includes some of the best players to ever slip on a Wisconsin uniform. With only 16 points and 52 minutes of game action to his name, Smith isn’t exactly the first guy fans think of when it comes to Badger basketball. But on Sunday afternoon, Jordan Smith had the spotlight all to himself. As the sole senior on UW’s roster this season, Smith was the total focus of the Senior Day festivities.


Jordan Smith
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Big second half pushes Badgers past Michigan on Senior Day

Wisconsin’s starting lineup did most of the heavy lifting for the Badgers in a 68-57 win over Michigan, but Sunday night belonged to Jordan Smith. The redshirt senior guard, the lone senior on UW’s roster this season, took center stage for a Senior Day ceremony prior to tip-off.


Michala Johnson
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Purdue runs away from Wisconsin, spoils regular-season finale

After the Wisconsin Badgers (3-15 Big Ten, 7-21 overall) fell to the Northwestern Wildcats last Saturday afternoon, head coach Bobbie Kelsey straightforwardly summed up the most important part of basketball: “Basketball is about making shots,” Kelsey said. And Sunday afternoon against the Purdue Boilermakers in the Badgers’ regular season finale, Wisconsin struggled to make shots and, not surprisingly, fell to Purdue in underwhelming fashion 68-48. Saying the Badgers struggled to make shots Sunday afternoon might be giving them too much credit.


Linebacker Joe Schobert was selected by the Cleveland Browns with the first pick in the fourth round of the NFL Draft. 
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Schobert, Stave impress, Marz struggles at NFL Combine

Wisconsin offensive tackle Tyler Marz, quarterback Joel Stave and outside linebacker Joe Schobert participated in the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this weekend with the hopes of improving their draft stocks in advance of the NFL Draft in late April.



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