In the history of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey program, the Badgers have never seen this amount of support.
Saturday night’s contest against No. 6 Harvard at the Kohl Center was an open call to area hockey fans across the state, and the Wisconsin faithful answered that call to the tune of 5,125 fans, the second-largest crowd in women’s college hockey history.
As it turns out, the Badgers needed every bit of that support they could get.
Things didnâ??t turn out all that bad for the Badgers after all.
Never fear, Badger fan, if you want to see the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team play in the NCAA Midwest Regional first- and second-round games at the United Center in Chicago. There are literally hundreds of seats to choose from.
But it’ll cost you, especially if you want to score a suite at the “House That Jordan Built.”
How much? Up to $9,909 for a lower-level suite for 20 people attending the second-round session on Sunday afternoon, according to prices listed on one of two major online ticket brokers touting tickets to “March Madness.”
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. â?? The University of Wisconsin won the NCAA indoor track and field national championship meet, which concluded Saturday.
Chris Solinsky failed in his bid for a third straight 3,000-meter title, but his second-place finish gave UW a comfortable lead over second-place Florida State.
When Alando Tucker heard the name of the University of Wisconsin’s first-round NCAA tournament opponent Sunday evening, the Badgers senior star was, well, a bit surprised.
Texas A&M? Tucker thought. Didn’t they finish, like, second in the Big 12? Aren’t they ranked, like, seventh in the country?
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s road to the NCAA Final Four will be a lot like the streets of Madison are this time of year – treacherous, and full of potential potholes.
CHICAGO – Maybe, just maybe, Ohio State is that good.
Maybe the Buckeyes, with their fabulous freshmen now fully acclimated to the rigors of college basketball, are an NCAA championship waiting to happen.
That would be one plausible explanation for the 66-49 hurt the Buckeyes put on the University of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Conference tournament final Sunday at the United Center.
A Big Ten championship eluded the Wisconsin men’s basketball team, but the highest NCAA tournament seeding in school history did not.
MADISON, Wis. — March Madness has begun, but the American Medical Association and others are urging the NCAA and universities like the University of Wisconsin-Madison to “Stop the Madness” and curb alcohol advertising.
The AMA said that the alcohol industry spends more than $52 million on college sports advertising.
On the UW-Madison campus, contracts with Anheuser-Bush and Miller are worth $425,000, WISC-TV reported.
CHICAGO – Bo Ryan is nothing if not consistent.
Ask the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach which is more significant, a regular-season or a conference-tournament title, and his answer never changes: Winning a two-month marathon is more important than winning a weekend sprint.
Full-page ads in college newspapers Friday call on university leaders, athletic conferences and the NCAA to “stop the madness” by banning alcohol marketing from college sports.
The ads, tied to March Madness and sponsored by the American Medical Association, were scheduled to run in college papers in six cities, in advance of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Dick Bennett loves his son like, well, a son. In fact, Bennett loves his son so much, he begged him not to follow him to Washington State.
“I told him he should stay at (the University of) Wisconsin,” Bennett recalled. “We knew they had a good thing going there.”
Kids being kids, Tony Bennett insisted on joining his father in Pullman, Wash., which is only slightly less isolated and rural than northern Tibet.
It’s hard to tell right now who will face the biggest test Saturday night at the Kohl Center. Is it the top-ranked University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, which plays host to perennial power Harvard in an NCAA regional game that will send the winner to the Frozen Four?
With every stroke she takes, University of Wisconsin women’s swimmer Yi Ting Siow isn’t just pulling herself through the water. She’s pulling for her school.
“She’s definitely the leader on our team, in terms of point production, and she knows that,” said UW coach Eric Hansen.
She’s pulling for her country…..And she’s also pulling for her family, still living far back home in Seremban, Malaysia.
On Tuesday, Alando Tucker picked up the phone, answering a call from teammate Kammron Taylor.
It was then that Tucker heard the news: Taylor had made all-conference second team â?¦ oh yeah, and Tucker was Big Ten Player of the Year.
At the end of October, Alando Tucker was tagged with the moniker of Big Ten Conference men’s basketball preseason player of the year. For the 31 games over the four-plus months that followed, the University of Wisconsin senior forward lived up to that billing.
As a result, a more prestigious and permanent title came Tucker’s way on Tuesday.
Alando Tucker was still enjoying a sweet dream when the news hit the streets.
Kammron Taylor was the first to let his teammate know he was named the Big Ten Conference’s player of the year via text message. When Tucker didn’t respond quickly enough, Taylor followed up with a phone call.
Alando Tucker, who has led the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team during a record-setting season, was named the Big Ten Conference’s Player of the Year by both the coaches and media, it was announced this morning.
Tucker, a 6-foot-5 senior forward from Lockport, Ill., who needs to score 23 points to become the Badgers’ all-time leading scorer, is the second Badger in four years to earn the player of the year award. Devin Harris won it in 2004.
One hundred and six days ago (thatâ??s 15 weeks; 2,544 hours; 152,640 minutes, etc.), I sat here and told you that the athletic department did a disservice to UWâ??s football senior class.
Members of the University of Wisconsinâ??s Faculty Senate fired questions at the director of the Athletic Board Monday, scrutinizing several recent decisions.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Tony Bennett calls his father “one of the best coaches ever.”
At the rate Tony is going, Dick Bennett and a lot of other people are going to be saying the same thing about Tony in the not-too-distant future.
Bennett, who played for his father at UW-Green Bay and coached under him at Wisconsin, on Monday was named NCAA Coach of the Year by Basketball Times magazine.
Pick any numbers you like to define college football’s premier teams â?? points scored, yards allowed. Or the big money earned by their coaches. The sport’s dizzying salaries spiral has come to this, a USA TODAY study finds: The million-dollar coach, once a rarity, is now the norm.
MINNEAPOLIS – Yes, it’s true. The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team actually allowed a goal.
The Badgers saw the puck hit the back of their own net for the first time in more than five games, but it didn’t stop them from beating Minnesota 3-1 in the WCHA tournament championship game Sunday at Ridder Arena to claim their second straight title.
It took just a few hours for the footage to make it to YouTube.
Not long after Kammron Taylor drained a three-pointer with 3.9 seconds left Saturday to lift the University of Wisconsin to a 52-50 victory over Michigan State, someone posted a video of the moment on www.youtube.com, giving fans a chance to relive the moment over and over albeit through shaky, hard-to-see footage taken from the upper deck of the Kohl Center.
The U-W Madison athletic department is celebrating a big milestone. Collectively student athletes are posting the highest GPA in the school’s history, on the heals of a darker spot on the university’s academic record. Last year the basketball Badgers were plagued with ineligibility that likely hurt them on the court, but this year the team is rebounding with the help of additional resources and a dedicated staff.
Wisconsin forward Alando Tucker is one of the five finalists for the Oscar Robertson Trophy.
The trophy is a national men’s basketball player of the year award given by the United States Basketball Writers Association.
As expected, the Mid-American Conference has provided the University of Wisconsin with its final non-conference opponent for the 2007 season.
Since 1988, Matt Lepay has had a courtside seat for University of Wisconsin men’s basketball games.
So, when Lepay considers all the fourth-ranked Badgers have to offer – from standout senior forward Alando Tucker’s versatility to how they defend, get to the foul line and take care of the basketball – you listen a little more intently.
University of Wisconsin guard Jolene Anderson has been named first-team all-Big Ten Conference in women’s basketball in both the coaches and media voting.
Painful though it was, Rae Lin D’Alie eventually had to relinquish her job as quarterback of her Pop Warner football squad.
“I couldn’t see over the top of the linemen,” said the University of Wisconsin freshman point guard, who apparently has topped out at 5-foot, 3-inches. “I couldn’t find my receivers.”
University of Wisconsin forward Alando Tucker is one five finalists for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, the national player of the year award given by the United States Basketball Writers Association.
The Badger women’s basketball team plays tomorrow in the Big Ten tournament.
It’s a game one former Badger would give anything to be playing in.
In some sense Shawna Nicols life has come full circle in just the last 6 years.
The former Badger women’s basketball player had a short playing career that covered 3 years, two coaches and a whole lot of pain on the court that has changed her life forever.
Once Jolene Anderson is finished with basketball, she would like to pursue a career as a prison guard.
The junior standout with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team admitted that she has received some strange reactions after sharing her occupational goals with others.
One week after turning down a lucrative offer to return to the National Football League as quarterbacks coach with the Dallas Cowboys and remain at the University of Wisconsin, Paul Chryst sounds at peace with his decision and eager to prepare for the 2007 season.
Jolene Anderson was named to the All-Big Ten Conference first team by both the coaches and media on Tuesday, two days after becoming the first University of Wisconsin women’s basketball player to win the league scoring title.
Wisconsin’s men’s basketball game Sunday at Ohio State delivered the highest national overnight rating for any basketball game carried this season on CBS-TV.
When the game was played, the Badgers were ranked No. 1 in the AP poll and No. 2 in the coaches’ poll, while the Buckeyes were No. 2 in the AP but No. 1 in the coaches’ poll.
Now the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team must pick up the pieces.
The Big Ten regular season championship is out of reach. The Badgers’ premium positioning for the NCAA tournament has been jeopardized. And Brian Butch, their starting power forward, is out four to six weeks with a dislocated elbow.
A lot has happened in a week.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Coach Ed Nuttycombe and the University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team ran their way into the history books on Sunday.
Behind individual titles from Demi Omole and Joe Detmer, the Badgers cruised to their seventh straight Big Ten Conference indoor title, matching the record set by Michigan from 1934-40.
Hard to believe, but here in Big Ten country we tend to get a little provincial and maybe a little too close to our own for the sake of critical analysis. Just as there was a lesson somewhere in that whole Ohio State-Michigan football debate a couple of months ago, the Ohio State-Wisconsin basketball question should also present a vigorous discussion here at the approach of the madness of March.
Kammron Taylor could barely speak and, to be honest, he looked exhausted.
About 30 minutes earlier, the University of Wisconsin senior’s shot at being a hero and a Big Ten champion were rejected by Ohio State’s Ron Lewis, allowing the Buckeyes to preserve a 49-48 victory, claim a second straight regular-season conference title and cause yet another set of fans to rush the floor after a victory over the Badgers.
Dear Editor: It has been reported the UW football coach has been given a $550,000 increase in salary after his first year at Wisconsin. That amounts to a 73 percent addition for winning 12 football games and losing one. This record was very commendable even though it was a relatively easy schedule.
It would be interesting to compare this increase to the proposed raise of 3 percent for thousands of citizens in the Wisconsin Retirement System or the 2-3 percent raise in Social Security benefits for millions of people.
So just who is paying for Bret Bielema’s nice fat raise? It’s not who you might think. When Bielema, the University of Wisconsin football coach, received a hefty bump in his salary earlier this month, it sent the money men in the UW athletic department back to work on next year’s budget, the final version of which was presented to the finance committee of the Athletic Board on Thursday and was forwarded for approval by the full board at its scheduled meeting today.
It goes without saying that members of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team have a specific objective in mind when their postseason begins this weekend.
They want to repeat as NCAA champions.
Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition delivered a giant boot to Chancellor John Wiley Wednesday, urging him to â??give Adidas the bootâ? in protest of alleged workersâ?? rights violations in Adidas factories.
Alando Tucker and Joe Chrnelich are separated by 23 seasons on the UW basketball floor, but the two still share something in common.
If you’ve watched many Big Ten Conference basketball games this season, you’ve seen more stoppages because of problems with the clock than in the last five seasons combined.
It’s not because there’s an epidemic afflicting the clock operators at each conference school. It’s because of a new timing operation put in place at each Big Ten arena called Precision Time Systems.
When you watch the opposing fans flood the floor, like they did Tuesday night when the Badgers’ basketball team lost at Michigan State, you gotta wonder:
Is this No. 1 ranking really such a good thing? Doesn’t it just pin a giant target on the Badgers’ backs?
The answers, according to former Badgers players, are yes and yes.
Or, to quote Charlie Wills: “Heck, yeah! It’s awesome.”
It goes without saying that members of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team have a specific objective in mind when their postseason begins this weekend.
They want to repeat as NCAA champions.
IOWA CITY, Iowa â?? The University of Wisconsin is badgering high schools in 16 states to change their logos, claiming the W symbols they use resembles the universityâ??s trademarked W.
Cindy Van Matre, director of licensing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sent notices and question sheets to the schools â?? including Cedar Rapids Washington, Williamsburg and Washington â?? on Jan. 8, saying their use of the W is a trademark infringement.
What has a balanced-tilt, shadow, squared prongs, an arrow-shaped indentation, and is all around Madison? If you said the university’s cardinal red “Motion W”, as it’s called, you’re right. But, UW officials says the “W” is moving off-campus and they’re working to win it back.
The “Motion W” first showed up on Badger football helmets in 1990. It became a registered university trademark in 1996. But, now it’s moving to places it shouldn’t be, according to UW officials.
EAST LANSING, Mich. – The giddiness of finally attaining the No. 1 ranking in the country followed by the sucker-punched feeling 24 hours later from losing a game and seeing the Big Ten Conference title slipping away certainly tests Bo Ryan’s order of staying on an even keel.
But amidst the rubble of the top-ranked Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s 64-55 loss to upstart Michigan State at an electrified Breslin Center Tuesday night, the Badgers were focusing only on fixing what ails them by the time they face Ohio State Sunday afternoon in Columbus.
Paul Chryst acknowledged during an interview a few months ago that he was perfectly content in his current role as an assistant coach with the University of Wisconsin football team.
“I love doing what I’m doing and I’m fortunate to be at a great place working with great people,” he told The Capital Times in mid-November. “The best way you can be appreciative is to do your job, and that’s where I’m at and I love it. I’ve got a pretty good gig going.”
That helps explain why Chryst turned down an offer to be the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterbacks coach in order to remain at his alma mater.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema got the news he was hoping for when offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Paul Chryst informed him he was staying with the Badgers.
As much as I’d like to see a computer geek match the ’57 Braves against the ’82 Brewers in this, the year of our consecrated gold/silver anniversaries, someone ought to program in the vitals of the 1999-2000 Wisconsin Badgers against their contemporary.
Now that would be a basketball game for the ages, the current No. 1 team in the country against the last UW team to make the Final Four. Although in the case of the latter, you might have to define the age: Stone, Bronze or Iron.
Not even the top-ranked team in the nation could overcome a finish like this.
One day after earning its first No. 1 ranking in school history, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team lost to Michigan State, 64-55, on Tuesday night on the strength of some tough defense and rebounding and the hot shooting of Drew Neitzel.
1990 Badger football co-captain Nick Polczinski died Feb. 16 at age 39 in his Oconto Falls home, Gannett Newspapers reported Monday.
When Yoni Macagon heard the news, he went ballistic.
“I was at an airport in Dallas, and I just started going nuts,” he said. Ben Voelkel yelled across his apartment to his roommate, who was in the bathroom.”We sorta shared a moment there,” he said.
Nick Penzenstadler came to a sudden, shocking realization.”We are the big dogs,” he said. “We are Duke and North Carolina this year.”
Finally, respect.
That was the sentiment of the man who started the ball rolling for not only the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program but the Badgers’ athletic department as a whole.
Pat Richter was at Mitchell International Airport on Monday afternoon when he first heard that the Badgers were the top-ranked team in the nation. It’s an accomplishment that few can truly appreciate more than the former UW athletic director can.
The Paul Chryst watch continues.
In the last week the University of Wisconsin’s offensive coordinator has interviewed with the Dallas Cowboys for a vacant position on their staff and received a multiyear contract offer to remain with the Badgers, who finished in the top 10 of both major polls last season.
Yet according to sources, neither Dallas coach Wade Phillips nor UW coach Bret Bielema had learned of Chryst’s plans as of Monday.
The plot thickened Monday when the San Diego Chargers hired Norv Turner as head coach. Turner, who was the San Francisco 49ers’ offensive coordinator last season, worked with Chryst in San Diego for three seasons (1999-2001) and the two remain close.
A season already packed with laurels and team records reached an ultimate high Tuesday.
For the first time in program history, the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team is ranked No. 1.
