Category: Athletics

Coach Gard’s late-game timeout and alleged touching of Juwan Howard sparked an eye-opening altercation after Sunday afternoon’s game.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst has landed his No. 1 target for UW’s new offensive coordinator:

Bobby Engram.

According to a UW source, the Executive Committee of the UW Board of Regents on Friday approved Engram’s compensation package.

The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved standard contract extensions for three fall sports coaches.

The five-year contracts of football coach Paul Chryst, volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield and women’s soccer coach Paula Wilkins were extended by one year to January 31, 2027.

Missed the final match? No worries; Cardinal sports reporter Taylor Smith will catch you up with her thrilling recount of the final match.

Head football coach Paul Chryst’s five-year contract was extended through Jan. 31 of 2027.

Andrew Ernst has worked with Team USA Bobsled and Skeleton for the past six years.

According to multiple reports, Bobby Engram is leaving that position in order to become the offensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin.

The team lost a plethora of different coaches during the 2021 offseason, and it appears it will be that way again in 2022. After announcing that they had parted ways with defensive coordinator Don Martindale, it was reported Tom VanHaaren and Jamison Hensley of ESPN that the University of Wisconsin is targeting current Baltimore tight ends coach Bobby Engram to be their next offensive coordinator.

There are several programs that can attempt to lay claim to the mantra “running back U”, but it’s pretty difficult to argue against the University of Wisconsin as the true home to RBU.

Winning a national championship is a dream come true — but for UW coaches, it’s also a big payday. On top of his $362,000 salary, University of Wisconsin-Madison volleyball head coach Kelly Sheffield earned a bonus of about $109,000 for winning the national championship in 2021, plus a bonus of about $18,000 for winning the Big Ten, according to the UW Post Season Bonus Policy.

A University of Wisconsin fan who made a racist gesture directed at Asian-American fans during the UW men’s basketball game against Northwestern on Tuesday has been banned from UW athletic events going forward.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has banned a fan who was caught on video making racist gestures during a basketball game between the Badgers and the Northwestern University Wildcats from buying tickets to future sporting events, the university said Thursday.

The University of Wisconsin has banned from all athletic events an individual accused of “abhorrent anti-Asian activities” during Tuesday’s men’s basketball road game versus Northwestern.

The individual is not a UW-Madison student or employee and will be notified that they are no longer welcome at any future UW Athletics event. The individual is prohibited from purchasing tickets through the athletic department.