For a team coming into the season with aspirations simply to be bowl eligible, consistently picked fifth in the West Division in the preseason, Minnesota has a chance to head to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship with a win Saturday.
1. Gordon rewriting the record books
Wisconsin (5-0) continued its scorched-earth run to begin the season, downing UAB (2-2) 72-43 in their fifth straight win of 20 points or more to begin the season. This was the Badgers' first game in the loaded Battle 4 Atlantis tournament.
Week 14 remains one of the most important weeks in the college football season as in-state rivalries and crucial division games are played. This week several teams will look to clinch their division and wrap up their last game of the season.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
A multitude of incentives drive the teams of the Big Ten going into this final weekend of the regular season. The bottom teams play for pride, the middle plays for bowl placement, Minnesota and Wisconsin play for the division and Ohio State plays to gratuitiously humiliate Michigan.
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The Badgers dropped their second straight game of the season, losing to Drake 89-77. Even though Drake (1-3) was ahead for most of the game, the Badgers (1-2) only trailed the Bulldogs 43-38 at halftime.
Wisconsin (0-8-0) is still sputtering to start the season, losing two games in Colorado this weekend. They fell against Colorado College on Friday and to No. 10 Denver Saturday.
Both the Badger men and women teams registered a tenth place finish in the NCAA Championships in Terra Haute, Indiana this past Saturday, closing out another successful season for one of Wisconsin’s most successful programs.
No. 2 Wisconsin (17-1 Big Ten, 27-2 overall) completed its season sweep of No. 20 Ohio State (10-8, 19-11) Friday, sweeping the Buckeyes in Columbus, Ohio. The win extended the Badgers’ win streak to 17 as Wisconsin improved to 9-2 against ranked opponents this season.
Behind a stellar performance by senior forward Frank Kaminsky, No. 3 Wisconsin cruised to a 78-54 victory over Boise State Saturday night.
IOWA CITY, Iowa— In a wildly entertaining game, No. 14 Wisconsin knocked off Iowa, 26-24, to set up a winner-take-all game next week against Minnesota for the Big Ten West title.
Wisconsin’s historic season came to an end Friday in Tallahassee as the Badgers fell to Central Florida 3-2.
Though the Badgers started off with an explosive 17-2 run against the Vanderbilt Commodores, they ultimately fell 67-58 in Wednesday's contest at the Kohl Center.
Like many college basketball fans, I tuned into the Champions Classic, watched Kentucky destroy Kansas 74-40 and came away with one very strong conclusion: Kentucky is college basketball’s Death Star this year. They are literally and figuratively the biggest team in the country and it’s going to take perfect execution from something very specific to take them down (I’m thinking outside shooting from stretch forwards).
Last week’s 59-24 drubbing of Nebraska was Wisconsin’s most impressive victory since, well, the previous meeting between those two teams, a 70-31 Badger beatdown in the 2012 Big Ten title game.
1. Is Joel Stave the final answer at quarterback?
Usually as a season progresses, teams become more predictable, falling into patterns of play where, on a week-to-week basis, fans and opponents know what to expect. In the case of the Iowa Hawkeyes, that is far from the truth.
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