The expansion project for new athletic practice facilities at the Kohl Center will now include new luxury seating area, a measure that is hoped to bring in revenue for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department.
Shawn Eichorst is stepping down as executive associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin to become athletic director at Miami (Fla.), multiple sources have confirmed. A formal announcement is expected later Tuesday.
Eichorst, a Lone Rock native who attended UW-Whitewater and earned his law degree from Marquette, has served as the No. 2 administrator for UW athletic director Barry Alvarez for the past five years.
The University of Wisconsin?s spring football game will be 1 p.m., April 23, at Camp Randall Stadium.
If Bobbie Kelsey can coach and recruit to the level she can charm and dream, then the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program has been placed in capable hands.
Bobbie Kelsey, a former Stanford player and an assistant coach at the national power the past four years, was introduced Monday as the sixth head coach in the program?s 38-year history.
Eric Hansen, who took the University of Wisconsin men?s and women?s swimming programs to uncharted heights, is moving on. Hansen has accepted a similar dual role at Arizona, where he worked as an assistant for three seasons prior to coming to Madison 12 years ago.
College basketball coaches often speak of their teams in terms of family. In that context, the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball players have been orphans for three weeks since Lisa Stone was fired as coach. Monday they were adopted when UW announced the hiring of Stanford assistant coach Bobbie Kelsey as the head of the Badgers basketball family.
UW-Green Bay?s Matt Bollant admitted that he was relieved Monday when University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez called to say the Badgers were going a different direction in their search for a new women?s basketball coach.
Speaking with an intoxicating mix of passion and poise, Bobbie Kelsey didn?t hesitate to share her vision for the Wisconsin women?s basketball program.
“This is a top program or I wouldn?t be here,” Kelsey, an assistant at Stanford the last four seasons, said Monday after she was introduced as the sixth head coach in the history of the UW program. “I could have just stayed at Stanford and be satisfied with that.
When Arizona?s swimming and diving head coach Frank Busch announced his resignation in February, people were left wondering who would replace the coaching legend.
The wait is over for Matt Bollant, and fortunately for the UW-Green Bay Phoenix his coaching career in Green Bay is not over.
Mike Bruesewitz?s stunt to raise money for MS has far exceeded its original goal of $3,100.
MADISON — UW officials have confirmed that Stanford women?s basketball assistant coach Bobbie Kelsey will take over as the Badgers new women?s basketball head coach.
The University of Wisconsin will introduce Stanford assistant Bobbie Kelsey as its new women?s basketball coach on Monday, sources told Madison.com sports. The hire was first reported on the Green Bay Press-Gazette website. UW has called a press conference for 4 p.m. at which Kelsey will be introduced.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison wants to add a club seating area at the Kohl Center in time for the 2011-12 basketball and hockey seasons.
Madisonian Kirk Daubenspeck is making a startling recovery from a brain injury, but friends and family of the former University of Wisconsin men?s hockey goaltender are still trying to raise money to fund his rehabilitation. The latest effort will take place Saturday, April 9, at Village Lanes in Monona.
After a two-year hiatus, the University of Wisconsin football team will renew its rivalry with Iowa starting with the 2013 season. The Big Ten Conference released its conference football schedules for 2013 and 2014 on Wednesday and the return of the Hawkeyes highlights the Badgers? two schedules.
UW-Madison’s Mike Bruesewitz had his flaming red tresses reduced to bristle, all for charity. UW teammate and good friend Jon Leuer did the honors, shaving Bruesewitz down to the nub in the interest of supporting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Bruesewitz?s coif has been a topic of conversation since the forward from St. Paul, Minn., showed up for his sophomore season with a perm. The curls evolved into wild, burnt orange thicket that drew all sorts of attention during the NCAA tournament.
As they await the selection of Lisa Stone?s successor as University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coach, her three former assistant coaches are in the running for various head coaching positions.
It was the most volatile offseason in the history of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team. Seven seniors left. Four underclassmen turned pro. Two assistants took head coaching jobs elsewhere. As a result, the Badgers went from playing in the national title game to missing the NCAA tournament completely.
If Butler knocks off Connecticut for the NCAA men?s basketball title Monday night, it will provide an asterisk to University of Wisconsin followers. UW lost to the Bulldogs in the Sweet Sixteen, which would no doubt provide a measure of consolation if they cut down the nets in Houston.
His new potential teammates on the University of Wisconsin football team have been filled with questions about Greg Russo?s experiences during two tours of duty in Iraq for the Wisconsin Army National Guard. What was it like? What did he do? Did he see combat? Russo, who graduated from Lake Mills High School in 2003, hopes to join the University of Wisconsin football team after an extended tryout during spring practices. It took his experiences in the military to convince himself to give it a try.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is off the market. Bielema mentioned last Saturday to a Wisconsin State Journal reporter he had become engaged, then announced it publicly on a radio show on WTSO (1070 AM) on Friday morning. Bielema, 41, who has never been married, offered no details, other than to say on April 9, he was holding an engagement party.
Xavier?s Kevin McGuff may yet coach a UW women?s basketball team, but it won?t be at the University of Wisconsin. McGuff, who interviewed for the vacant UW job earlier this week has withdrawn from consideration, according to a source who has spoken with McGuff.
The University of Wisconsin has interviewed at least two candidates for its vacant women’s basketball coaching position. The first two candidates brought to campus for interviews this week were Matt Bollant of UW-Green Bay and Kevin McGuff of Xavier.
Official word came down Thursday that the University of Wisconsin football team has moved its 2011 season opener up two days to Sept. 1, a Thursday meeting with Nevada-Las Vegas under the lights at Camp Randall Stadium. Earlier this week, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez outlined several reasons for making the move. Here?s one more: The Badgers have won 11 straights night games against non-Big Ten Conference opponents and have prevailed in 26 of their last 29 night games.
It?s not always easy to add up the millions of dollars that major universities spend on their athletic departments. But each year, the NCAA collects dozens of revenue and expense items from each of its sanctioned schools. USA TODAY, through public-records requests filed to about a hundred Football Bowl Subdivision universities, examined several years? worth of line-by-line athletic revenues and expenses. Often times, the sources of revenue, when adjusted for inflation, have increased since 2005.
When the men?s Final Four coaches face off this weekend, more than bragging rights will be at stake. Collectively, the coaches stand to gain up to $1 million in tournament bonuses. But dangling incentives to make sure a coach gets athletes through school is controversial. On the one hand, a significant bonus might keep a coach?s focus on academics. On the other, should coaches be paid more for a fundamental part of their job?
Win or lose, the coaches in the NCAA Division I men?s basketball tournament will make $1.4 million on average this season, according to a USA TODAY analysis of contracts and other compensation documents. Coaches’ pay ? for both football and men’s basketball ? has continued to increase amid pay freezes and cutbacks on many campuses, prompting protests at some schools. At the same time, about a dozen athletic departments in Division I operate without university or student fee funding.
The NCAA?s new president is adamant that, on his watch, there?ll be no straying from college athletics? most time-honored tenet: “It?s grossly unacceptable and inappropriate to pay players ? converting them from students to employees,” Mark Emmert says. But as the NCAA basketball tournament?s Final Four gathers here this week ? capping a three-week showcase that generates more than $771 million a year in television rights alone ? Emmert acknowledges it?s time for a serious discussion about whether and how to spread a little more of the largesse to those doing the playing and sweating.
While the search for a new coach for the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team is almost certain to include UW-Green Bay women?s coach Matt Bollant, don?t be surprised if some candidates from outside the box emerge.
What is wrong with this picture? Mediocre UW-Madison women?s basketball coach Lisa Stone is dismissed by Wisconsin and receives about a $280,000 buyout…I guess we finally know who those overpaid public employees whom we?ve heard so much about lately actually are.
The Wisconsin Badgers likely will open the 2011 football season on national TV on Thursday night, Sept. 1, the Las Vegas Sun reported Sunday.
A number of names have been mentioned as a possible new coach of the UW women’s basketball team to replace Lisa Stone. Perhaps first among those candidates is Matt Bollant, currently coach of UW-Green Bay.
NEW ORLEANS ? The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team, like just about everyone else in the Crescent City, was swallowed up by Jimmer-mania this week. Instead of getting Jimmered in the NCAA tournament?s Southeast regional, however, the Badgers got Butlered.
Just how attractive is the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coaching job? The easy answer is that it?s one of the four best jobs open, along with the other BCS schools with vacancies ? LSU, Virginia and Washington.
The more nuanced answer is that attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder. To an upwardly mobile mid-major coach or an accomplished assistant at a major program with a winning tradition, UW could be a dream job.
Mark Johnson of the University of Wisconsin was named Coach of the Year by the American Hockey Coaches Association on Thursday, the fourth time in six seasons he has garnered that honor in the wake of the Badgers winning the NCAA title.
Left for dead in their NCAA Southeast regional semifinal after missing 17 straight shots and trailing by 20 points with a little more than 11 minutes left, the Badgers clawed their way back within four points before falling 61-54 on Thursday evening at New Orleans Arena.
The Chronicle of Higher Education posted a short Q & A with Duke professor Charles Clotfelter, who just published a new book titled “Big-Time Sports in American Universities.” The cover of the book features a packed Camp Randall Stadium on a Badgers football game day.
….In his book, Clotfelter said he tries to explain to readers what role commercial sports play at American universities, and what the costs and benefits associated with big-time athletics are.
Badger cheerleaders and Bucky Badger made a surprise visit to a local school to hold a pep rally, and are tuning young New Orleans fans into Badger faithful. Many of the kids were decked in Badger hats and “Teach Me How To Bucky” T-shirts.
On Sunday afternoon, just hours after the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team claimed its fourth NCAA title in the last six years, an e-mail showed up in my inbox from a man who wanted to express his appreciation for the team?s many fans.
A group of 22 first-graders near New Orleans will don their ?Teach Me How to Bucky? T-shirts today for a morning pep rally with UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, Badgers cheerleaders, band members and their favorite Wisconsin mascot. Badger Nation can thank Woodmere School teacher and Madison native Alissa Schneeberg, 24, for this youthful outpost in Harvey, La., on the west bank of the Mississippi River across from the Big Easy. Schneeberg, a La Follette High School and UW-Madison graduate, is in Louisiana with Teach For America and exposed her class to the Badgers before the football team?s Rose Bowl appearance.
They are integral parts of both the present and future of Wisconsin basketball.
Guard Josh Gasser is the freshman starter, more poised and with an all-around game more advanced than anyone could have imagined.
Forward Mike Bruesewitz is the sophomore reserve, a player whose performances and personality can be as brilliant as the red mop that adorns his head.
NEW ORLEANS (WKOW) — The Badger men?s basketball team is in the Big Easy, but they know they?re not here to tour Bourbon Street; they?re here to win a game.
This is the time of year when almost everyone is a sports fan. It?s hard to miss the NCAA tournament, and who would want to? It provides some of the best entertainment around. And it was hard not to come to work Monday morning without a bit of a glow after the way Wisconsin?s teams performed.
To borrow a line from Martin Sheen and Michael Douglas, is Bud Selig set to become the most popular history teacher at the University of Wisconsin?
Officials from Northern Illinois have narrowed their list of potential head coaches for its men?s basketball program down to four and one of them is Greg Gard, according to Dave Kaplan of csnchicago.com. Gard, the associate head coach for the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball program, was listed in the report along with Gonzaga assistant Ray Giacoletti, Purdue assistant Paul Lusk and South Dakota State head coach Scott Nagy.
The most compelling aspect of the new Big Ten Conference for men?s hockey may be how its members will co-exist with peers in their soon-to-be abandoned leagues. Will it be business as usual with the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Western Collegiate Hockey Association, or will there be resistance when it comes to scheduling and other administrative matters?
It?s not often you get to see a breakthrough act and dynasty appear on the same stage, but that?s what the marquee said Monday. In a stroke of promotional smarts, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department took a moment to acknowledge two of its best stories. Nearly 600 people came to the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion to appreciate two keepsake moments: The UW women?s hockey team, fresh off winning its fourth NCAA title since 2006, and senior Maggie Meyer, who became the first athlete in the history of UW women?s swimming and diving to win an NCAA individual title.
Lisa Stone was brought in to lift the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball program to a new level. But after eight seasons of modest success mixed with disappointments, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez concluded it wasn?t going to happen. So one day after the Badgers completed a tantalizingly frustrating season with a loss to Illinois State in the WNIT, Alvarez decided it was time for a change.
Of all the hockey-related things that Meghan Duggan has been able to accomplish during her remarkable young career, she did something late Saturday morning that she never had before.
University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coach Lisa Stone is out of a job after her team again failed to make into the NCAA tournament.
Regular-season conference champions, conference playoff champions, winners of 37 games, a team led by the nation?s most valuable player and now, after one of their best games of the season, national champions.
Erie, P.A. ? Four national championships in six years. It doesn?t get much better than that.
The Wisconsin women?s hockey team claimed the Western Collegiate Hockey Association conference trophy and playoff trophy, and now it completes the trifecta: bringing the National Championship trophy back to Madison after beating Boston University 4-1 Sunday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team drained 3-pointers from all over the court, played suffocating defense and methodically wore down Belmont for a convincing 72-58 victory in their NCAA tournament opener Thursday night.
Meghan Duggan has won the Patty Kazmaier Award, becoming the third University of Wisconsin player to be named the nation’s best women’s college hockey player.
Maggie Meyer has become the University of Wisconsin women?s swimming program?s first national champion. The senior won the 200-yard backstroke event in record time at the NCAA championships Saturday night, clocking in at 1 minute, 50.76 seconds ? almost a second ahead of the runner-up, Dominique Bouchard of Missouri.
The coach says he’s yet to ponder the opening at Penn State or other jobs.
The Badgers survived a 38-point onslaught by Kansas State and secured the fourth Sweet 16 berth of the Bo Ryan era for a 70-65 victory on Saturday night.
Butler is beating up on college basketball?s big boys, taking down No. 1 seeds, booking tickets for big-city destinations and winning the hearts and minds of college basketball fans with a long NCAA tournament run. Again. After beating ninth-seeded Old Dominion on Matt Howard?s last-second tip-in Thursday, the Bulldogs (25-9) upset top-seeded Pittsburgh in one of the wackiest finishes in tourney history Saturday to set up a Sweet 16 matchup against the University of Wisconsin this Thursday in New Orleans.
