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Column: Wisconsin hockey returns to classic venue at Coliseum

By Rex Sheild and Bill Anderson | Mar. 6, 2013

While Wisconsin hockey fans have grown accustomed to the comfortable seating and the rowdy Crease Creatures at the Kohl Center since its existence in late 90s, the program started the makings of their dynasty elsewhere in Madison—Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The current Wisconsin hockey team will relive the Wisconsin glory days at the building former head coach Bob Johnson built this weekend, where they will look to add another WCHA championship banner against St. Cloud State. With the Badgers closing their season at the Coliseum this weekend, it is only appropriate to revisit the once-great spectrum in college hockey.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Women's Basketball: Wisconsin women take on Illinois in opening round of Big Ten Tournament

By Jonah Beleckis | Mar. 6, 2013

The Wisconsin women's basketball team (3-13 Big Ten, 11-18 overall) will need a win against Illinois (9-7, 16-12) to keep their season alive. History is not on the side of the Badgers, as they have lost to the Illini all three times they have met up in the Big Ten tournament and have lost the teams' two meetings this season.

SPORTS

Men's Golf: Badgers finish 16th at USF Invitational

By Vince Huth | Mar. 6, 2013

The Wisconsin men’s golf team fired rounds of 310-303-311--924 at the USF Invitational at the Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club in Dade City, Fla., to finish 16th out of 17 teams.

SPORTS

Badgers prepare for big week across sports

By Jack Baer | Mar. 4, 2013

Women’s Hockey

COLUMNS

Column: ‘March Madness’ finding its way into college hockey

By Matt Masterson and Ben Pierson | Mar. 4, 2013

The term “March Madness” may be colloquially tied to college basketball, but heading into the last weekend of the regular season, it feels like that phrase was tailor made for college hockey, especially in the WCHA.

SOFTBALL

Softball: Badgers gather four wins on west coast trip

By Peter Cameron and Sam Garigliano | Mar. 4, 2013

The Badgers (14-3 overall) took home four wins in their six-game run this weekend at the Easton Invitational in Fullerton, Calif. Wisconsin took on Cal State Fullerton, No. 18 Stanford, No. 8 California, CSU Bakersfield and Cal Poly, playing Cal State Fullerton twice. UW picked up four wins over the weekend but lost games to Cal State Fullerton and California.

SPORTS

Men's Tennis: Fighting Irish too much for Badgers to handle

By Jim Dayton | Mar. 4, 2013

The Wisconsin men’s tennis team (1-0 Big Ten, 7-2 overall) was unable to continue its early season success, losing 5-2 to No. 29 Notre Dame in Sunday’s action at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.

HOCKEY

Women's Hockey: Badgers begin road to WCHA title vs. St. Cloud

By Rex Sheild | Feb. 28, 2013

The race for the 2013 WCHA conference tournament crown is underway and second-seeded and No.6 ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team (17-9-2 WCHA, 21-9-2 overall) will look to build upon their late-season momentum, as they host seventh-seeded St. Cloud State (5-21-2, 9-22-3) in the first round of the WCHA Playoff series—the first ever playoff series at the LaBahn Arena.

HOCKEY

Men's Hockey: Wisconsin looks to rebound in Omaha

By Brett Bachman | Feb. 28, 2013

Following a tough 3-2 overtime loss Monday night, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team looks to regroup and make a run over its last two series of the season.

BASKETBALL

Men's Basketball: Badgers hosting Purdue in final regular season game at Kohl Center

By Vince Huth | Feb. 28, 2013

Five Badgers will suit up for their final game at the Kohl Center Sunday when Purdue (6-9 Big Ten, 13-15 overall) visits Wisconsin (11-4, 20-8) in the midst of UW’s push to capture a share of the regular season conference championship.

SOFTBALL

Softball: Badgers take to west coast for trio of difficult matchups

By Christian Blatner | Feb. 28, 2013

After sweeping the competition last weekend in Orlando and getting off to the best start in school history, the Wisconsin softball team (10-1 overall) will travel to the Golden State looking to continue its success against some top-caliber competition. The Badgers open up Thursday with a game versus Cal State Fullerton before playing in the Easton Invitational over the weekend.

BASKETBALL

Badger basketball teams head into home stretch of Big Ten play

By Jack Baer | Feb. 26, 2013

Women's Basketball

HOCKEY

Men's Hockey: Badgers fall in overtime to Penn State 3-2

By Matt Masterson | Feb. 26, 2013

While it was not lacking in chances, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team could not take advantage of them as they fell to Penn State 3-2 in overtime.

BASKETBALL

Men's basketball: Wisconsin hosts Huskers in Big Ten matchup

By Kelly Kallien and Vince Huth | Feb. 26, 2013

Nebraska (4-10 Big Ten, 13-14 overall) has been more competitive this season than its four conference wins would suggest. While the Cornhuskers have yet to come away with a win against the Big Ten’s upper echelon, they have certainly made things interesting in a handful of such games.

COLUMNS

Column: NFL combine coverage getting out of hand

By Matt Masterson | Feb. 26, 2013

When it comes to overhyped sporting events, nothing takes the cake quite like the NFL scouting combine. What began as simply a series of physical tests for NFL-bound athletes has been transformed by the 24-hour news cycle of the sports media world and their talking heads, desperate for a discussion point.

COLUMNS

Column: Bundesliga has overtaken EPL as best league in the world

By Matthew Kleist | Feb. 25, 2013

Two weeks ago, I subtly made the statement that the German Bundesliga is “the most competitive league in Europe over the past couple of years” in my column. This statement is more than just my opinion; there is some concrete evidence to support this notion.

SPORTS

Men's Tennis: Golden Gophers too much for Wisconsin

By James Dayton | Feb. 25, 2013

Minnesota junior Petr Satral covered the length of the baseline, lunged forward, and fired a forehand winner down the line to break a deadlock with No. 40 Minnesota and claim a 4-3 victory for the No. 75 Wisconsin men’s tennis team on Saturday at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Women's Basketball: Badgers fall to Northwestern

By Cameron Kalmon | Feb. 25, 2013

Wisconsin (3-11 Big Ten, 11-16 overall) could not hold on to the lead Saturday and fell to Northwestern (5-9, 13-14) in a 54-52 thriller.

HOCKEY

Men's Hockey: Rumpel, Barnes power Badgers past Penn State

By Matt Masterson | Feb. 25, 2013

What started off as a dud could not have finished with a louder bang, as the Wisconsin men’s hockey team (11-7-7 WCHA, 14-10-7 overall) took down Penn State (12-14) 5-0 in the first meeting between the two teams.

HOCKEY

Women's Hockey: Badger women earn No. 2 seed in WCHA with a sweep of Bemidji State

By Peter Geppert | Feb. 25, 2013

Some tough defense and some timely scoring by the usual suspects were enough for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team (17-9-2-2 WCHA, 21-9-2 overall) to grab a weekend road sweep over the Bemidji State Beavers (5-22-1, 6-24-2).