Davis was named to the United States Basketball Writers Association All-America first team Thursday. He also earned first-team honors from Sporting News, AP and NABC to make him a consensus pick.
Daryl Watts ended her NCAA hockey career as a four-time All-American.
The trophy will go somewhere else this season after Northeastern won 4-2 at Matthews Arena, using two power-play goals and a timely strike at the end of the first period to fuel a bit of revenge.
UW earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament’s Midwest region. The NCAA selection committee rewarded the Badgers’ 24-7 season by sending them about 80 miles to Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum for the first two rounds.
Johnny Davis earned Big Ten Player of the Year honors by both media and the conference’s coaches on Tuesday. UW’s Greg Gard won the Coach of the Year award in votes by both media and the conference’s coaches, while Brad Davison, Tyler Wahl and Chucky Hepburn also earned all-conference honors. That’s four Badgers players named to a team despite no player earning any recognition in the preseason.
Over a month after the original incident, a Tweet identified former University of Wisconsin student Eric Kotek as the individual who made racist gestures toward the student section at a Northwestern basketball game Jan. 18, 2022.
The south end zone is adding a premium seating section for special events
Wisconsin Badgers star sophomore Johnny Davis was named The Associated Press Player of The Year in the Big Ten Conference and first-team All-Big Ten by both the coaches and media.
Badger fans knew it all along, but now its official: Johnny Davis is the Big Ten player of the year.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s Johnny Davis was named to his first All-American list of the season. Only one voter for the Sporting News All-America team didn’t have Davis listed on their first team.
Former University of Wisconsin assistant men’s basketball coach Lamont Paris will appear in the NCAA Tournament for the first time as a head coach courtesy of a remarkable overtime buzzer-beater by Chattanooga’s David Jean-Baptiste on Monday night.
DJay Mando was watching closely from his perch in the Kohl Center during the last 15 seconds of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s game against Purdue on Tuesday.
Both of UW’s coordinators now are making at least $1 million with Leonhard’s raise. First-year offensive coordinator Bobby Engram, who was hired in February, will make $1 million this year and $1.1 million in 2023.
Cindy Bremser arrived on campus only a couple years after the implementation of Title IX, which forbid gender discrimination at federally funded institutions. Bremser was an All-American track runner at UW-Madison but wasn’t recruited by someone. She was recruited by something.”[It was] handwritten note that said they were looking for people to join the track team. There was a time and a date so I showed up,” said Bremser.
Marisa Moseley is riding a roller coaster of emotions on the sidelines and it’s fascinating to watch. One minute, the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach is drop-kicking the air in celebration after one of her players makes a 3-pointer; the next, she’s twirling in frustration after a breakdown on defense leads to an open shot for the opponent.
Video: University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Marisa Moseley sat down with columnist Jim Polzin to discuss her first season leading the Badgers.
Former Wisconsin Badger hockey star Sarah Nurse made a statement in Beijing helping lead Team Canada to a 2022 gold medal. She’s also been a playmaker well before then by using her voice to promote diversity and inclusion in the sport.
Juwan Howard, the head coach of men’s basketball at the University of Michigan, has been suspended and fined after slapping an assistant coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team in the head after his team’s loss on Sunday, The New York Times reported, citing the Big Ten collegiate athletic conference.
Michigan coach Juwan Howard and Wolverines players Moussa Diabate and Terrance Williams II also were suspended. Howard, who struck UW assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft in the face during the altercation, won’t coach in Michigan’s five remaining regular-season games and was fined $40,000.
Following the Big Ten’s official announcement which included fines and suspensions, UW Athletic Director Chris McIntosh issued a statement calling the $10,000 fine to be a “Wisconsin fine” and not a “Greg Gard fine.” McIntosh went on to add the university will assume the responsibility for paying the fine.
Michigan men’s basketball head coach Juwan Howard will be suspended for five games, through the end of the regular season, after he tried to throw a punch at Wisconsin’s assistant coach.
The end of the game was marred by an exchange of punches from players on both teams. Michigan head coach Juwan Howard and Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard got in each others’ faces before the fight, and Howard appeared to slap Wisconsin assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft in the face.
Michigan coach Juwan Howard slapped Badgers assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft after he disagreed with a timeout by Greg Gard following Sunday’s game. The conflict began when Wisconsin coach Greg Gard and Howard began exchanging words in the handshake line, at which point players and coaches began crowding around them.
Coach Gard’s late-game timeout and alleged touching of Juwan Howard sparked an eye-opening altercation after Sunday afternoon’s game.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team saved its biggest for last in terms of home crowds on its way to its first NCAA championship. There were more than 7,000 people in the UW Field House for the regional final victory against Minnesota last December that sent the Badgers to the Final Four. Was it the biggest group ever to watch a UW volleyball home game? It’s hard to say definitively, but it’s at least in the top three.
When Virgil Abloh died in November after a two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare cancer, a group of University of Wisconsin athletes wanted to honor the contributions Abloh made to Black culture.
Finley had a brilliant four-year career at UW and was selected 21st overall in the 1995 NBA draft, the first of the amigos off the board: Ford (Illinois Chicago) was taken five picks later and Boyce (Colorado) went in the second round. Finley played 15 seasons in the NBA, making two appearances in the All-Star Game and winning a title with the San Antonio Spurs as a role player in 2007. He’s been just as successful off the court and is now the assistant general manager/vice president of basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks.
University of Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel denounced the actions of Wolverines men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard in a statement Sunday afternoon after No. 15 Wisconsin’s 77-63 victory Sunday at the Kohl Center in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin and Michigan men’s basketball teams had a heated exchange after the No. 15 Badgers defeated the Wolverines 77-63 on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022 at the Kohl Center in Madison.
It was just your garden variety handshake line after the end of a college basketball game.
And then Michigan coach Juwan Howard snapped…and then he slapped.
With Wisconsin’s 77-63 victory already decided Sunday, Howard was upset with Wisconsin coach Greg Gard’s decision to call a timeout with 15 seconds left.
Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh wasted little time in grabbing for his phone.
After seeing Michigan and UW players and coaches engage in a potentially ugly brawl during the handshake line after the Badgers’ 77-63 victory Sunday at the Kohl Center, McIntosh called Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren.
Most troubling was that Michigan coach Juwan Howard hit UW assistant Joe Krabbenhoft in the face with an open hand.
UW-Madison has begun considering serving alcohol at athletic events, the Director of Athletics told WTMJ Radio.
When students and fans head to Camp Randall for Badger Football, they have not been able to purchase any form of alcohol. From beer to hard liquor, nothing was available. That, however, could soon change.
The Athletic Directors at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are taking the changing landscape of college athletics in stride.
During a wide-ranging interview during WTMJ 2022, UW-Madison Athletic Director Chris McIntosh & UW-Milwaukee AD Amanda Braun both said they viewed recent changes to the NCAA that allows student athletes to make money off their likeness and their status as an athlete.
When it was first announced that Caleb Williams was picking between LSU, USC and the University of Wisconsin, the rumor was that he was thinking about Wisconsin because they have a good history of developing NFL players.
Quoted: “Each team, that’s 25 additional roster spots. So there’s more room at the top,” said Carla Pentimone, who played for the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2009-11. Now she’s the owner and founder of Women’s College Hockey Recruiting, helping more than 250 young women navigate the transition to elite-level hockey.
“I have young girls who want to play hockey at Wisconsin or Minnesota, and they wear those sweatshirts. And I think being able to look at those teams that have had so much success and see what can be — the beautiful locker rooms and the amenities and even taking jets to play teams — as females, it’s just, it’s so cool,” Pentimone said.
There was no stopping Canada in the Beijing Olympics women’s hockey tournament, and two former University of Wisconsin players were key in the crowning achievement Thursday.
‘Unique’ is how University of Wisconsin Men’s Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach Jim Snider would describe his path to his profession.
Knight’s coach at the University of Wisconsin, Mark Johnson, said longevity comes to mind when he thinks about his former player. But it all comes back to that keyword: consistency.
Bobby Engram’s contract with the University of Wisconsin will see him earn $1 million this year as the football team’s offensive coordinator.
The Wisconsin Badger men’s and women’s crew teams rowed their hearts out Thursday to raise money for brain cancer research. The teams took part in a yearly challenge that pits some of the top universities against each other for the cause.
If Olympic teams could compete by college instead of country, Wisconsin Women’s Hockey could field its own roster. There are five Badger alumni competing for Canada in the Winter Games: Kristen Campbell, Emily Clark, Ann-Renée Desbiens, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull.
Tight end Jake Ferguson (144th-ranked prospect at Pro Football Focus), inside linebackers Leo Chenal (#35) and Jack Sanborn (#120) and tackle Logan Bruss (#172) all project to be drafted within the first five rounds. Former Badger quarterback Jack Coan, who wrapped up his college career at Notre Dame, will also make an appearance at the combine.
Officials at Iowa are investigating fans’ behavior at Carver-Hawkeye Arena after University of Wisconsin wrestler Austin Gomez reported he and his family were harassed at a dual match Saturday.
The posting only designates that the position is for a defensive coach and does not list a position applicants would be coaching. The State Journal has reported that Bob Bostad — UW’s inside linebackers coach for the past five seasons — will be moving over to the offensive line to fill the void at that position left by Joe Rudolph’s departure.
If the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team and Notre Dame play a Big Ten series this week, it won’t be on Thursday and Friday as scheduled. The games between the Badgers and the 11th-ranked Fighting Irish have been postponed, UW announced Tuesday evening. The school cited COVID-19 protocols within the Badgers team for the decision.
“The Iowa Athletics Department was made aware of a situation that occurred on Saturday during our wrestling match at Carver-Hawkeye Arena against the University of Wisconsin,” the release read. “One of Wisconsin’s student-athletes reported a fan in the stands yelling racially insensitive remarks directed at he and his family. The University of Iowa denounces any act of hatred and is committed to providing a safe and equitable environment. Iowa’s Athletic Administration has reached out to Wisconsin, and the student-athlete, to apologize for the incident and to let them know we are following up on this matter. Any individual found in violation of our fan behavior policy is subject to being banned from attending future Hawkeye athletic events.”
University of Wisconsin Athletics is denouncing the behavior of a fan who allegedly called one of the Badger student-athletes a racial slur at a wrestling match over the weekend at Iowa.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Director Chris McIntosh issued a statement Monday acknowledging the “vulgar and racially insensitive language” that wrestler Austin Gomez experienced at the University of Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
lex Cavallini’s goaltending career has had several highlights.
Now she has added another milestone.
Before Sunday, Cavallini had an accomplished international career as a member of five world championship teams, most recently serving as the primary goalie during the 2019 title for the U.S. women’s hockey team. As a freshman with the Wisconsin Badgers, she was part of the 2011 national championship team, alongside current national team teammates Hilary Knight and Brianna Decker. Cavallini also holds the distinction of being the first woman drafted by the United States Hockey League (USHL).
Bobby Engram wasn’t looking to leave his post as the Baltimore Ravens’ tight ends coach. He was in a strong organization, coaching one of the best players at the position in the league and learning from a highly respected coach. But the opportunity to become the offensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin was too good to pass up.
It was a first for Alex Cavallini. It was another two for Hilary Knight. The former University of Wisconsin women’s hockey stars were key parts of the U.S. victory against Switzerland at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday.
Hensley has been perhaps the most consistent back-up in the world this fall, saving 93.2% of the 103 shots she faced over seven games in 2021. Unlike Cavallini and Rooney—who played college hockey at powerhouse teams from the University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota, respectively—Hensley cut her teeth at tiny Lindenwood University, outside of St. Louis, Mo. She set just about every goaltending record there was for the Lions and parlayed that success into a spot on the U.S. national team in 2016.
Wisconsin will once again have a say in a Winter Olympics, with a usual array of representation in speedskating, women’s hockey … and don’t forget curling!
As part of their celebration of Black History Month, the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s basketball teams will wear shirts designed by the late UW alum Virgil Abloh, the fashion designer behind the Off-White brand. A 2003 graduate of the UW, Abloh died on November 28, 2021 at the age of 41.
Dousman native Brianna Decker, a former University of Wisconsin star and gold medalist with the United States women’s hockey team in 2018, suffered what appeared to be a significant leg injury in the first minutes of her team’s 2022 Winter Olympics preliminary match against Finland on Thursday.
Roque was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, leading the Women’s College Hockey Association (WCHA) in points (41), while the U.S. women defeated rival Canada in a dramatic shootout to capture gold at the 2018 Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. She helped the Badgers win a national championship the next season. The pandemic cut short her senior season, but she was a top three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the top player in the country.
The players skated around Tuesday afternoon at Wukesong Sports Center without their helmets and — briefly, mercifully — without their masks, stopping and smiling for the camera that would capture the official team portrait of the 2022 U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team, not to mention their own camera phones that were tucked under pads on their hips or their shoulders. After the large group photo came the subsets: first-time Olympians in one shot, the goalies in another; University of Minnesota players followed by those from the University of Wisconsin — rivals in everyday life, teammates here.
A total of 222 athletes will be representing the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and 20 of them have ties to the Badger State. From reigning gold medal teams in men’s curling and women’s ice hockey to breakout speedskating star Jordan Stolz, Wisconsin athletes will be aiming for the podium when the Games begin on Wednesday.
There are six players with Wisconsin connections on the 2022 U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team, which begins play in the preliminary round at 7:10 p.m. Thursday.
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard lost his father, Glen, to brain cancer a little more than six years ago.
He was 72.
Now Gard’s 75-year-old mother, Connie, is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
