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GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Wisconsin Badgers bussed up to Green Bay to see the sites of Lambeau Field and conduct practice next door at The Don Hutson Center, giving them an early look at where they will be playing LSU for the first game of the 2016 season in September. Head coach Paul Chryst used this opportunity to run a lot of scrimmages to get extended looks at his team in 11-on-11 and 7-on-7 situations.
Springtime is typically a time of great happiness, especially for sports fans and those of us that have to brave the harsh Wisconsin winters. The weather starts to get nicer, we get to experience the glorious chaos of March Madness, the NHL and NBA playoffs are right around the corner and, best of all, baseball makes its triumphant return, a harbinger of summer in the not-too-distant future. However, this year is a little different for myself and many others.
Friday evening, the Wisconsin softball team (3-1 Big Ten, 18-14) won an exciting game against No. 24 Ohio State (3-1, 18-8) by a score of 6-5.
Jonathan Tsipis walked up to the podium as the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers in the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion Thursday afternoon wearing a blue button-down shirt accompanied by a striped red tie.
Just like that, it’s done. All the early mornings, late nights, road trips and long practices reduced to a teary-eyed and gloomy locker room with embraces available from all.
Wisconsin basketball fans have been blessed with phenomenal levels of consistency throughout the past two decades.
Bobby Dunn’s favorite place to sit in Camp Randall Stadium is Section M. You can get a nice tan up there.
Syracuse’s run to the Final Four is one of the stranger NCAA Tournament occurrences in recent memory. With their stunning comeback win over Virginia on Sunday night, the Orange completed their wholly improbable run to Houston.
Wisconsin returned home to Goodman Diamond Wednesday, splitting a doubleheader with South Dakota.
Complete with a few band and spirit squad members, Bucky Badger and an open invitation to the public, Athletic Director Barry Alvarez welcomed head coach Tony Granato and associate head coaches Don Granato and Mark Osiecki back to Wisconsin hockey.
Wisconsin assistant coach Gary Close is leaving after 13 years with the program, according to a report from Jeff Potrykus of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Close joined the team back in the spring of 2003 as a part of then-head coach Bo Ryan’s staff.
The Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s season didn’t end the way they had hoped, but it was still one of the most successful campaigns for the team in recent history.
Matt Hutchins had a junior season for the ages, and now he will be adding yet another accolade to his seemingly never-ending list of honors.
Wisconsin will introduce its new men’s hockey coaching staff and women’s basketball head coach this week, according to a Tuesday UW release. The Badgers are expected to announce Tony Granato as the new men’s hockey head coach Wednesday and Jonathan Tsipis as the women’s basketball head coach Thursday.
Wisconsin has tabbed its next women’s basketball coach and, for the first time in the programs’ 43-year history, the Badgers will be lead next season by a male head coach, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Jonathan Tsipis is expected to named the seventh coach to lead the women’s basketball team later this week.
No matter how good of a season a team might have, a heartbreaking loss to end the season can stick in the minds of players, coaches and fans alike throughout the entire offseason. That will certainly be the case for Wisconsin this year following its disappointing defeat at the hands of Notre Dame in the Sweet Sixteen.
Wisconsin is expected to hire Tony Granato as its next head coach, according to USCHO.com and ESPN’s John Buccigross.
Matt Hutchins and the Wisconsin men’s swim team had quite the NCAA Championships this past weekend at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In the immediate aftermath of Wisconsin’s heartbreaking loss to Notre Dame, the ire of dejected fans was directly mainly toward the refs, who they felt had cost the Badgers a third straight trip to the Elite Eight. But over the passage of time and when cooler heads prevail, many of these fans will likely ultimately reach the conclusion that the Badgers’ demise was caused by self-inflicted wounds. Wisconsin turned the ball over 17 times against the Fighting Irish Friday night, its most since Greg Gard’s head coaching debut against Green Bay in December, when the Badgers finished the night with 26 turnovers.
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