Thursday’s lackluster performance in a loss to No. 8 Michigan State may have brought significant concern for players and fans, but the reality of the matter is that Wisconsin had an uncharismatic game and was defeated by arguably one of the nation’s top teams.
Coming into this past week’s Big Ten Championships at the University of Michigan, many teams did not really know what to expect from the UW women’s swim team.
The Wisconsin Badgers’ (3-13 Big Ten, 7-19 overall) relatively large senior class didn’t have the storybook ending it wanted.
Following the Feb. 9 departure of defensive backs coach Daronte Jones, head coach Paul Chryst announced Saturday the hiring of former Badger Jim Leonhard to fill Jones’ position.
The No. 3 Minnesota Gophers (23-3-1 WCHA, 28-3-1 overall) ambushed No. 2 Wisconsin (24-2-1 WCHA, 30-2-1 overall) in Minneapolis in the first match of a two-game series.
Wisconsin dropped its first game of the inaugural ACC/Big Ten Softball Challenge 7-1 to Louisville in Raleigh, N.C.
Wisconsin (3-12 Big Ten, 7-18 overall) is gearing up for what ought to be an emotional afternoon on the Kohl Center floor.
Now, Hinrich represents the time in my sports fandom when things were simpler. The politics, business, scandals and insane amount of scrutiny surrounding both collegiate and professional sports didn’t concern me when Hinrich broke into the league.
In one month, Michigan State altered the Badgers’ season in two very distinct ways. 31 days ago, Wisconsin defeated the Spartans at the Kohl Center, the beginning of a seven-game win streak that enabled them to get back into the NCAA Tournament picture.
After losing to No. 6 Michigan in a shootout last Saturday, the Badgers (6-13-7 overall, 1-8-3 Big Ten) welcome Michigan State (7-20-3, 3-10-1) to the Kohl Center, looking to earn at least another series split with the Spartans.
If you’re reading this column, I assume that you follow the basketball team at least casually. So unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past four weeks, you know that we haven’t lost a game for four weeks (knock on wood). In the basketball world, we call this a winning streak. Most recently, we defeated Maryland, a Big Ten goliath which hasn’t lost on its home court since its inception in the conference two years ago.
The last time Wisconsin went into the Breslin Center and knocked off the Spartans, Bo Ryan was in just his third year as head coach of the Badgers. Needless to say, it’s been awhile. Wisconsin (8-4 Big Ten, 16-9 overall) will take on No. 8 Michigan State () Thursday night at 8 p.m.
The No. 2 Wisconsin Badgers (24-1-1 WCHA, 30-1-1 overall) have already clinched the fifth WCHA conference championship in program history, but the regular season isn’t done yet.
In their penultimate game at the Kohl Center this season, Wisconsin (3-13 Big Ten, 7-18 overall) looked to seek revenge against an Illinois team (2-13, 9-17) whose lone win this conference season came against the Badgers in a close 71-65 game in Urbana-Champaign.
Head swim and dive coach Whitney Hite and his team were ready to head off to Ann Arbor, Mich., earlier this week to participate in the Big Ten Championships.
After battling against each other for Big Ten supremacy for nearly 15 years, Bo Ryan and Tom Izzo could be headed into the Hall of Fame together. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced the 14 finalists for its class of 2016 last Friday, and included among them were Ryan and Izzo.
The Wisconsin Badgers (3-11 Big Ten, 7-17 overall) haven’t won a lot. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t going to try to finish on a strong note. With only two home games remaining, a senior-laden Wisconsin team is staring the end of the season in the face.
Maryland is currently in just its second season as a member of the Big Ten, but the Terrapins already look like they’re destined to become Wisconsin’s newest rival. Wisconsin and Maryland have only squared off 10 times in their history, including thrice since the Terrapins joined the conference, but their meetings over the past two years suggest that some bad blood could be brewing between the two programs (or at the very least, their fan bases). The first matchup between UW and the Terrapins as Big Ten brethren came last February, when Frank Kaminsky and the Badgers made the trip out to College Park in their only meeting of the season. Entering the game, Wisconsin was 13-1 in conference play, ranked fifth in the country and on a 10-game winning streak.
Men’s Basketball The red-hot Wisconsin Badgers (8-4 Big Ten, 16-9 overall) picked up two more wins this past week after taking down Nebraska (6-7, 14-12) Wednesday with a convincing 72-61 victory at the Kohl Center and ending No. 2 Maryland’s (10-3, 22-4) home win streak Saturday with a 70-57 upset at the Xfinity Center.
At a small Catholic high school near Antwerp, Belgium, a 6-foot-10 basketball player took classes heavily based on discussion and conversation.
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