Saturday, the Wisconsin softball team (9-9) played its third and fourth games of the Judi Garman Classic in Fullerton, Calif., where it faced two ranked opponents.
With its final regular season game remaining, Wisconsin (12-5 Big Ten, 20-10 overall) has to feel pretty good about the situation they are currently in. After throttling Minnesota Wednesday, the Badgers clinched at least a fourth place finish in the Big Ten for the 15th consecutive year and secured a seventh consecutive season with at least 12 Big Ten conference wins.
The Badgers (2-12-4-2 Big Ten, 7-17-8 overall) did their best to give away another potential victory, but hung on to defeat the Nittany Lions (10-7-1, 20-10-4) on Senior Night by a score of 4-3.
MINNEAPOLIS — No. 3 Wisconsin (24-3-1 WCHA, 32-3-1 overall) continued its postseason dominance versus Minnesota-Duluth (10-17-1 WCHA, 15-20-1 overall) Saturday afternoon at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis.
UW-Madison’s Office of Legal Affairs and the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics has determined former Badger head coach Bo Ryan did not improperly use university resources over the course of a previously disclosed extramarital affair, and his Dec. 15 retirement was not a result of a university investigation into the allegation, per a Saturday news release.
In this special edition of the Cardinal Zone podcast, sports editor Zach Rastall caught up with MLB.com Dodgers associate reporter Jack Baer and MLB.com Brewers associate reporter Curt Hogg to preview the 2016 baseball season.
Wisconsin (8-8 overall) split its two games in day one of the Judi Garman Classic, defeating California State Fullerton 3-2 and falling to No. 14 Arizona State 4-1 in Fullerton, Calif., Friday evening.
Tuesday afternoon when the Badgers (3-15 Big Ten, 7-22 overall) fell 76-72 to the Northwestern Wildcats, the Wisconsin career for five seniors officially came to a close.
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.
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.
The intensity in Nielsen Tennis Stadium was palpable. There was no joking around, no chatting and certainly no tolerance for mistakes.
Eleven months of waiting. Torture. Distress. Agony. But we did it, folks. We made it. March is here. Think of how you feel when your favorite time of the year comes around.
Before forward Luke Kunin led the Badgers in goals in his freshman season, he received news from a doctor that changed his life. In sixth grade around Christmas time, Kunin was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
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.
All season long Wisconsin head coach Bobbie Kelsey preached the importance of playing four complete quarters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the eyes of many sports fans, an athlete is often solely measured in terms of their wins, losses and statistics.
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