Following a 12-game homestand that ended with a 10-2-0 record, the Badgers men’s hockey team (5-3-0 Big Ten, 14-7-1 overall) will travel to Ann Arbor to take on Michigan (4-2-0, 12-6-2) for their third consecutive conference matchup.
In what is normally a battle for the top of the Big Ten conference, the No. 14 Wisconsin (4-4 Big Ten, 17-4 overall) and No. 24 Ohio State (3-5, 16-5) men’s basketball teams will meet under different circumstances Saturday.
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There’s really no way to cut it, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s (4-3 Big Ten, 17-3 overall) last meeting with Northwestern (3-5, 10-11) was a total beatdown.
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“We’re obviously disappointed in our play today,” Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Bobbie Kelsey said of the team’s 60-44 loss to Michigan Sunday afternoon at the Kohl Center. “Overall, I thought the kids played hard but it just wasn’t enough.”
The nature of this past weekend’s series between Wisconsin and Ohio State mimicked that of a long-standing rivalry, not one that met on the ice for the first time ever.
In the same state where their defense began to stumble, the Badgers were able to regain their footing and continue a very promising season.
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Despite leading the Minnesota Golden Gophers (2-4 Big Ten, 13-7 overall) for the first 27 minutes of the game, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team (2-4, 9-9) could not hold on to the lead long enough to claim a win, settling for a 64-53 loss at Williams Arena in Minneapolis Thursday night.
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It was a night of inversions: an undefeated team falling, a 10-point lead immediately erased by a 12-point run, fans of a perennial college basketball powerhouse storming the court. Indiana, an opponent that Wisconsin hadn’t lost to since sophomore forward Sam Dekker’s middle school years, finally turned the tide.
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