Wisconsin (16-4 Big Ten, 24-6 overall) will make its third-straight NCAA tournament appearance as the No. 6 seeded Badgers take on Oregon (10-10 Pac-12, 16-13 overall) in first-round action Thursday night at the UW Field House.
Although Wisconsin’s 2015 campaign has been shadowed by disappointment, 12 players were honored with All-Big Ten selections with the regular season coming to an end this past weekend.
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It’s not every day that the head coach of a prestigious program with the second-most all-time wins and highest winning percentage in school history gets fired. It’s also not every day that it’s actually a surprise that a coach with more impressive credentials got to keep his job. The former describes Georgia’s Mark Richt and the latter LSU’s Les Miles.
There is no stopping the No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers (10-0-0 WCHA, 16-0-0 overall). The Badgers dispatched nonconference foe Dartmouth (4-1-2 ECAC, 4-4-2) this Thanksgiving weekend, defeating it 4-1 Friday and 4-0 Saturday.
More than 39 minutes into the Wisconsin Badgers’ 63-57 overtime loss to the San Diego State Aztecs, the Badgers were in a nearly identical situation as they were in their 54-52 win over Delaware two days earlier.
Hampered by their worst shooting performance in nearly a decade, the Wisconsin Badgers (4-3) fell to the No. 7 Oklahoma Sooners (4-0) in a blowout Sunday, losing 65-48.
If someone were to ask a student who the best athletes are on the UW-Madison campus, most people would give names such as Nigel Hayes, Corey Clement or Lauren Carlini. One name unlikely to be mentioned is Rose Lavelle, which shouldn’t be the case. Lavelle is one of the best college soccer players in the nation and was rated as the preseason No. 2 player in the country by TopDrawerSoccer.com.
Minneapolis, Minn. - When a running back has a big performance, some might say that he was “in the zone.” For redshirt junior Dare Ogunbowale and redshirt freshman Taiwan Deal, that expression was much more literal.
After the Badgers (2-2) dropped two games in a row, head coach Bobbie Kelsey needed her players to step up and show improvement going into the SDSU Thanksgiving Tournament in San Diego, Calif. Fortunately, the Badgers responded by correcting both short-term mistakes and long-term tendencies, ultimately leading to a hard-fought 54-52 win against Delaware (2-2) Friday.
A mediocre first half may have had some fans worried, but a big second half squashed any concerns over a repeat performance of the Western Illinois game at the Kohl Center Wednesday night.
After two consecutive blowout losses to Drake and Dayton, the Wisconsin Badgers are hoping for better results in the SDSU Thanksgiving Classic, where they will face the Delaware Blue Hens and the host San Diego State Aztecs.
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