One year ago, the Penn State Nittany Lions dug themselves out of a 2-0 hole to beat the Badgers 3-2 in overtime, effectively spoiling UW's at-large postseason bid. With the Big Ten title on the line and the tournament just weeks away, Wisconsin was not about to let history repeat itself this weekend.
Nebraska is fourth in the Big Ten standings. The weird part: It’s in basketball.
Although they came out with a powerful start and dominated play for most of the game, Wisconsin (3-13 Big Ten, 10-19 overall) could not hold on in overtime and lost in the first round of the Big Ten championships to Minnesota (8-9, 20-12) Thursday night in Indianapolis.
A recent and unfortunate trend in college basketball right now is the on-court behavior by coaches.
This weekend, the best wrestlers from the nation’s best wrestling conference will take to the mats as Wisconsin hosts the 2014 Big Ten Conference Championships.
On a Friday night in March 2012, Michigan goalie Shawn Hunwick lost his final collegiate hockey game. Following the fateful overtime shot, Hunwick skated over to the opposing team’s bench and handed the puck over to its rightful owners.
In a season defined by scoring records, win streaks and plenty of adversity, No. 9 Wisconsin (12-5 Big Ten, 25-5 overall) wrapped up its final home game with a team victory over Purdue.
When No. 2-seed Wisconsin takes the ice Friday and squares off against No. 3-seed North Dakota in the semifinals of the WCHA Final Face-Off, it'll be looking to not just advance to the finals, but to exact a little revenge as well.
The drums are starting to beat.
The early season tournament tour will continue in California for Wisconsin (7-7) when the Badgers head to Fullerton for the Judi Garman Classic Friday.
When the lights dim in the Kohl Center Wednesday night, there will be one senior whose achievements the whole crowd will feel lucky to remember: Ben Brust.
As the Big Ten season closes, so do the college basketball careers for three Badgers.
Roger Federer is back in the game.
It is done. The Wichita State Shockers finished their regular season Sunday and are undefeated. I don’t care what conference you’re in, that’s an incredible achievement. But not many people agree with that statement.
Men’s Basketball
The Badgers found themselves down 21 points with just four events to go, but came up big down the stretch to win their second Big Ten Indoor Track & Field Championship in a row and their 10th in the last 15 years.
As conference-tournament play began in Madison, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team (21-5-2 WCHA, 27-6-2 overall) defeated the Minnesota State Mavericks (7-20-1, 13-23-1) 2-1 in a best-of-three series.
In the last home game for seniors Morgan Paige, Taylor Wurtz and Daria Kryuchkova, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team (3-13 Big Ten, 10-18 overall) lost a hard-fought battle to Northwestern (5-11, 15-14) 77-73 in overtime Sunday at the Kohl Center.
The 2014 Winter Olympics officially came to a close this past week, but not before the United States, and the world, learned the name of a very unique 18-year-old.
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team (11-5 Big Ten, 24-5 overall) started off college basketball’s most notorious month with a victory at Penn State Sunday afternoon.
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