The ideal candidate was someone who’s worked at different levels, as a head coach and an assistant, with various levels of program support and, yes, with goaltending experience to fill in a gap on the staff in that area. Murdock checked the boxes. He was announced Thursday as an assistant coach and was heading to Madison to start putting things in place.
UW will pay UW-Platteville up to $150,398 in facility rental costs and for lodging and food during the Aug. 1-8 stay in southwestern Wisconsin. That doesn’t include transportation to and from Platteville, a 72-mile drive from the team’s facilities at Camp Randall Stadium.
The UW System: A total of $1.7 billion will go to projects across the UW System statewide. Some of the big ticket items in there include $285 million for replacing Camp Randall Sports Center and turning it into an indoor football facility, $347 million for replacing the Engineering Building and demolishing the Computer Aided Engineering Facility at UW-Madison, and $231 million for demolition of Phillips Hall and the completion of a new Science/Health Science Building at UW-Eau Claire.
Inside linebacker Jordan Turner, expected to be one of the key members of Wisconsin’s defense this season, has been suspended indefinitely after violating the athletic department’s student-athlete discipline policy.
The University of Wisconsin football program announced Friday that a key member has been suspended.
“My parents raised me to do the right things in life and unfortunately this time, I didn’t,” Turner said. “I made the wrong decision. I’m very disappointed and embarrassed and I want to personally apologize to my parents, my teammates, my coaches, the fans and the University of Wisconsin.
J.J. Watt is back in the NFL, but this time at the analyst desk.
The Pewaukee native and former University of Wisconsin defensive end announced on Twitter Thursday that he’ll be joining CBS Sports as an NFL studio analyst this fall on a multiyear deal.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team may have fallen short of its lofty goal of repeating as NCAA champions during the 2022 season, but the Badgers turned in plenty of thrilling performances, and there was no shortage of fans eager to catch the reigning champs in action.
Imagine a Big Ten West Division with the University of Wisconsin football team joined by familiar foes Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern along with newcomers UCLA and Southern Cal.
University of Wisconsin running back Braelon Allen hosted his second annual charity softball game inside Herr-Baker Field on Saturday afternoon. A press release by the Fond du Lac Spiders, a Northwoods League team, in February announced that proceeds would “benefit The Braelon Allen Fund, the Fond du Lac Boys & Girls Club, the Fond du Lac YMCA, and the Fond du Lac Junior Football League.”
Allen was arrested in April at the Mifflin Street block party, an end-of-year celebration for University of Wisconsin- Madison students.
Wide receiver Markus Allen made the announcement himself on social media Friday morning, saying his name will officially enter the transfer portal soon.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team was less than a year removed from the program’s first NCAA national championship when coach Kelly Sheffield’s squad faced one of the toughest tests in program history.
Chalk up one more award for J.J. Watt. The future NFL Hall-of-Famer will be headed to the University of Wisconsin’s Hall of Fame this year.
The Varsity Collective is separate from UW but has worked with UW athletic director Chris McIntosh and others in the athletic department to ensure its program is aligned with the university’s NIL guidelines. The collective signed a deal in 2022 with Opendorse, the NIL platform UW uses with its athletes, to create the infrastructure for connecting athletes with NIL opportunities.
Changes in NCAA coaching rules have some University of Wisconsin teams waiting to see how many people will be on staff next season.
The Badgers announced Thursday they will play three games in Italy on a trip from Aug. 6-15. The trip will start in Rome with a game Aug. 8 before a game in Florence on Aug. 11 and the final game in Venice on Aug. 13.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team’s path to a fifth straight Big Ten Conference championship is known.
The University of Wisconsin Women’s Hockey team was recognized on Monday at the White House for winning the 2023 NCAA National Championship.
They arrived from all over to be part of College Athlete Day at the White House, get a tour of the U.S. Capitol, meet Wisconsin’s senators and take in the sights.
President Joe Biden and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff hosted College Athlete Day on the White House’s South Lawn on Monday, celebrating several women’s and men’s NCAA champion teams from the 2022-2023 season.
Members of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team are headed to Washington, D.C., on Monday to be feted for the NCAA title they won in March. But UW officials until recently thought they had been forgotten in the process.
Football or education? The priorities for our right-wing, gerrymandered Legislature seem to fit nicely with the UW-Madison athletics department’s desire for a new training facility and hopeless dreams of a national championship.
The University of Wisconsin’s men’s and women’s track teams turned in a well-rounded performance this week at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin, Texas.
New conference commissioner Tony Petitti announced the league’s new schedule system and unveiled home and away opponents for the 2024 and 2025 seasons on a Big Ten Network broadcast Thursday afternoon. The new model nixes the division setup the conference has had since 2011, and the top two teams from the new 16-team league will face off for the Big Ten title game at the conclusion of the regular season. The changes were brought about after last summer’s announcement that UCLA and Southern Cal would be joining the Big Ten starting next season.
The PGA Tour Champions in 2021 extended their agreement to host the AmFam at University Ridge through 2027, but there was language in the contract that allowed for the tournament to move before the end of the deal. In actuality, the extensions were signed in two-year increments, so the two parties are still working out details of the contract to host the tournament at University Ridge in 2024, according to Justin Doherty, UW’s senior associate athletic director for external communications.
The University of Wisconsin will spend at least 12% more on men’s hockey coaching salaries in 2023-24 than it did last season.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will host its annual matchup with Marquette on Dec. 2 in the Kohl Center. A tip time has not been decided yet.
Carlini, arguably the greatest player in University of Wisconsin volleyball history, has decided to become part of League One Volleyball (LOVB), one of the professional volleyball leagues that plans to begin play in the United States late in 2024.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department is assembling a team to design and build the next change to the landscape in and around Camp Randall Stadium.
The University of Wisconsin had its men’s and women’s rowing teams competing for national titles in the IRA National Championships in West Windsor, New Jersey, but the squads closed their seasons on a down note when all was said and done Sunday.
Chryst, UW’s anchor from 2015-2022, will assume responsibilities as a special assistant in Austin.
If you had to sum up Gulce Guctekin’s state of mind in the days leading up to the University of Wisconsin volleyball team’s four-country foreign tour, it would be the give and take of those similar yet conflicting feelings.
Martha Johnson, wife to “Badger Bob” Johnson and mother to current UW Women’s Hockey Coach Mark Johnson, has passed away at the age of 88.
UW reported a 95.2% re-purchase rate by season-ticket holders, the highest rate for the program since 2018. Tickets in the remodeled south end zone, club seats and suites are almost sold out, with 99% of the inventory sold.
Nick Oliver’s coaching influences start at home: His dad, Scott, spent 15 years with the hockey and football programs at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Former University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst has taken a new job.
Nick Oliver played in a Frozen Four and coached in one.
His next job will be to help the Wisconsin men’s hockey team get back to the college’s game showcase event.
Badgers coach Mike Hastings announced the hire of Oliver on Wednesday. He comes to UW after earning USHL coach of the year distinction this past season after leading the Fargo Force to the regular-season championship.
For the second consecutive year, in celebration of that milestone date, the Badgers are hosting a statewide “Wisconsin Football 100 Days to Kickoff Scavenger Hunt.” Partnering with communities across the state, UW staff will place 100 mini Badger football helmets in each of four regions across the state. The specific cities where the helmets can be found are: Burlington, Hudson, Madison, Mineral Point, Oshkosh, Sun Prairie, Verona, Waukesha and Wausau.
The confirmation came Saturday, six days after the Badgers finished sixth out of eight teams at the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis. It was the second straight season that UW finished in that spot and missed the NCAA Championship after 13 consecutive appearances from 2009 to 2021.
After 19 years, Wisconsin Women’s Rowing Coach Bebe Bryans announced she is stepping down.
University of Wisconsin football receiver Markus Allen appears to be in a legal standstill following his arrest on April 29.
The University of Wisconsin men’s golf saw its season come to an end after the final day of an NCAA regional tournament Wednesday in Bath, Michigan.
Being a born-and-bred Wisconsinite, home has never been out of sight for Tiffany Morton, University of Wisconsin women’s basketball’s newest assistant coach.
Badgers freshman Caroline Harvey and program legend Hilary Knight were unveiled Monday on the list of seven nominees for the International Ice Hockey Federation Female Player of the Year award.
Behind former Badgers Sam Dekker and Jordan Taylor, the London Lions won the British Basketball League playoff final Sunday. Dekker, who last played for UW in 2015, missed the game after undergoing ankle surgery May 9 but Taylor led the Lions to a win with 15 points, seven assists and five rebounds.
Player-coach relationships often last well beyond the years spent working alongside one another.
Mike Lucas, who covered University of Wisconsin athletics in a variety of formats for more than 50 years, is retiring.
University of Wisconsin football and men’s basketball radio broadcasts will sound different next season.
With fifth-seeded UW set to open postseason play against 12th-seeded host Illinois at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament, pitcher Maddie Schwartz and first baseman Katie Keller were named to the all-conference first team after leading the Badgers to a 27-19 record, including a 12-10 mark against conference competition.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team will finish the 2023-24 regular season by playing its two biggest Western Collegiate Hockey Association rivals on consecutive weekends.
University of Wisconsin athletic department officials were reminded recently of the importance of educating student-athletes on the risks of violating NCAA rules by gambling on sports.
Investigations are ongoing at Iowa and Iowa State. More than two dozen athletes across five sports at Iowa are being investigated and more than a dozen across three sports at Iowa State.
Former Wisconsin Badgers linebacker Chris Borland is launching his own athlete storytelling company, ByUs Media. He and his co-founder, Olivia Hancock, join us to share why they started the platform and what they’re hoping to accomplish. Then, a sports media professor joins us to explore what we gain and what when miss out on when athletes tell their own stories, instead of relying on traditional media.
Dropping the puck for the first time, Faust Fest brought back some familiar faces to the Madison Ice Arena, including Badger legends Brianna Decker and Meghan Hunter.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face five teams that were ranked in the top 25 of the final AVCA coaches’ poll and will play three home matches in its nonconference schedule announced Monday.
On a beautiful Friday night there was a gaggle of young kids tossing around a football behind the stands at Feuerstein Field. This being at Pewaukee High School, most of the youngsters were clad in jerseys of the Watt brothers: a Derek fan in an old No. 34 San Diego Chargers jersey tried to wrestle the pigskin away from a ball-carrier sporting T.J.’s No. 90 in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ black and yellow. There were several No. 99s looking on, representing J.J.’s time both at the University of Wisconsin and the Houston Texans.
The largest fundraising benefit for the cancer foundation Gard started after his father, Glen, died of brain cancer in October 2015 is usually on a Friday-Saturday schedule, with the dinner event for donors held on Saturday.
UW Athletics stated that at the time of Kamo’i Latu’s initial enrollment at UW-Madison, the athletic department was not aware of the investigation. It noted the allegations stemmed from when Latu was a minor and the juvenile records are sealed. UW-Madison officials did learn of the civil suit filed last fall.
Kamo’i Latu was a significant contributor in his first season at Wisconsin, starting 12 games and finishing fifth on the team in tackles. The rising senior safety from Honolulu is expected to play a key role in UW’s defense in 2023 under new head coach Luke Fickell.
It’s unclear, however, whether his involvement in a civil suit stemming from a sexual assault case in 2018 will in any way affect his status at UW.
He hadn’t been sleeping anyway, so the night before Walt McGrory lost his left leg was no different. Just pain.
