The 2020-21 season is scheduled to begin Wednesday night with a game against Eastern Illinois at the Kohl Center. Those words – scheduled to – are as necessary as ever when discussing what comes next for the No. 7 Badgers.
The Badgers’ new season opener is now set to take place this Sunday when they host Western Illinois at the Kohl Center at 2 p.m. As of Tuesday, the game against MIA-OH has not been rescheduled.
The University of Wisconsin football team will not play Minnesota on Saturday in the Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, marking the first time since 1906 the programs haven’t played one another.
Minnesota has been battling rising coronavirus numbers within the program and school officials announced Monday night the team will not practice Tuesday.
COVID-19 may call off another University of Wisconsin football game this season, but this time it’s not the Badgers’ fight with the virus that’s causing the problem.
The Bears, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Capitals, announced her hire without any “first” caveats, but Emily knew the weight it carried. She had worked for years under Tony Granato as an assistant for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team. Now, she will finally get her shot.
What is college football for, anyway? Not for our entertainment or our diversion, not ideally. Not to make billions. At least it shouldn’t be. It’s meeting challenges. It’s sportsmanship. It’s gaining life lessons and handling them with the learned skills of discipline, delayed gratification and truly understanding what it means to be part of a team.
How many COVID-19 road blocks will stand in the Badgers’ way over the next months remains to be seen, but at least they have a path that begins next week when they host Eastern Illinois on Wednesday at the Kohl Center.
The University of Wisconsin football team will host Minnesota for this year’s edition of the oldest and most-played rivalry in college football, with kickoff time set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28. The game at Camp Randall Stadium will be televised on Big Ten Network.
The University of Wisconsin football season to this point has felt like rush-hour traffic on the Beltline. Start and stop. Slowly get moving, then stop again. Get a head of steam, screeching halt.
After two cancelled games, Regent Street business owners are glad the Badgers are back, but they say they want to make safety a priority.
During the layoff, more than two dozen players and staff members tested positive for the coronavirus. University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez made the decision to pause football activities on Oct. 28. That meant canceling games against the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Purdue Boilermakers.
The early signing period for college basketball recruits began Wednesday.Top athletes signed letters of intent to play at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University next season.
Wisconsin men’s and women’s basketball and men’s and women’s hockey home games will continue to hold home games, just without fans in the stands. The update applies to both LaBahn Arena and Kohl Center.
Extending a decision made for University of Wisconsin football games at Camp Randall Stadium, parents of Badgers players won’t immediately be allowed to watch basketball and hockey games in person this season.
Wednesday night originally was scheduled to be the start of the 2020-21 season, and it would have been a doozy of a matchup for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
The situation is certainly not unique to Navy. The SEC is dealing with outbreaks at several programs, and 10 Football Bowl Subdivision games were either canceled or postponed this past week. The University of Wisconsin has canceled two games and reported 27 active cases last week. Sports Illustrated reported that there has been a 14.7 percent postponement/cancellation rate for games this season.
UW researchers are analyzing the viral samples to determine whether there was one point of introduction that led to the spread or if the outbreak included multiple clusters of the virus. That could take weeks to find out because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now involved in the analysis of the outbreak.
After coronavirus forced the cancellations of its past two games, the University of Wisconsin is getting ready for its return to the gridiron this weekend.
The University of Wisconsin football team announced Monday that it is anticipating playing Saturday at Michigan after a COVID-19 outbreak within the program caused two games to be canceled. It will continue monitoring the team’s COVID-19 testing closely to ensure that can happen, but the team began regular practices Monday morning.
The Holiday Face-Off tournament at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum was officially unveiled on a Tuesday morning last March. A week later, the sports world was starting to shut down because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases.
Coach Tony Granato admits the flashiness quotient of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team has been scaled down between last season and the one that’s about to begin.
By the time the Western Collegiate Hockey Association starts playing its 2020-21 season, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team will have waited more than eight months to play a game.
While hope remains UW can get its season back on track after this disruption, frustration with the Badgers’ situation is evident in the Big Ten Conference. UW canceled games against Nebraska and Purdue, which not only denied those teams’ players one of their limited opportunities to play this season, but also kept the nearly 100 healthy UW players off the field.
According to a release from the program Saturday morning, the Badgers have had two individuals, one player and one staff member, test positive in the past four days, a significant decrease from the past two weeks. UW has had 17 student-athletes and 13 staff members test positive for the virus since Oct. 21. But this week marked the first time the program has gone a day without a positive test since the outbreak began.
A party host who faces the possibility of thousands in fines for allegedly violating Dane County’s public health order limiting gathering size is an assistant with the outbreak-stricken UW football program.
For the second consecutive week, the University of Wisconsin canceled a football game because of a coronavirus outbreak in the program.
The University of Wisconsin canceled this weekend’s planned football game against Purdue University after at least 27 positive cases within the program, including Coach Paul Chryst. Wisconsin had previously canceled its game against the University of Nebraska.
Midway through a second week of a COVID-19 shutdown, the players of the University of Wisconsin football team are in a holding pattern.
For the first time in over a week, University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst can return to work at his office at Camp Randall Stadium.
The University of Wisconsin has canceled its home game against the Purdue Boilermakers this game because of recent COVID-19 infections.
The Badgers are No. 1 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine preseason poll released Tuesday, making it the sixth time coach Mark Johnson’s team has started a season in the top spot.
The program announced Tuesday it canceled this Saturday’s game against Purdue, marking its second straight cancellation after last week’s game at Nebraska also was wiped out due to the outbreak.
As the search continues for what started the COVID-19 outbreak inside the University of Wisconsin football program, athletic director Barry Alvarez and others are trying to learn from the situation to prevent from it happening again.
When University of Wisconsin officials announced the cancellation of the Big Ten football game at Nebraska because of rising coronavirus numbers, they did so knowing the move could eventually hurt the Badgers’ chances of qualifying for the league title game. If UW’s home game Saturday against Purdue is cancelled – a move school officials are considering – the margin of error for Paul Chryst and his players will be close to zero.
UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said on ESPN’s “College GameDay” Saturday morning that the program now has 22 active cases.
University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst had completed his daily testing for the COVID-19 virus by early afternoon Oct. 23. Chryst’s result came back negative that Friday, as did every other rapid-response antigen test from a group that included his staff, players and other game-day personnel.
While the president has played down the pandemic in his visits, Wisconsin has been setting records for cases and hospitalizations. The state university’s ranked football team, the University of Wisconsin Badgers, had to cancel its Oct. 31 game against Nebraska when multiple players and the coach tested positive.
University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic director Barry Alvarez says the total number of positive COVID-19 cases within the Badgers’ football program has increased to 22.
“I just got a report this morning, today we are at 10 staff, 12 players, a total of 22,” UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said Saturday on ESPN’s “College GameDay.” “So we are still having additions in our cases, and that’s something we have to get our arms around and control of.”
UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez told ESPN’s College GameDay Saturday that 10 staff members and 12 players tested positive, adding 6 new cases since UW’s Thursday update.
’We’re still having additions in our cases and that’s something we’ve got to get our arms around and control,’ athletic director says.
UW released updated numbers Thursday night, stating that there are 16 active cases currently within the football program — three cases that were pending tests came back positive between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
COVID-19 once again is proving to the University of Wisconsin football team that it cares little about routines.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is scheduled to host Louisville on Dec. 9 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge this season.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says the number of active COVID-19 cases within the football program had increased to 16 as of Thursday morning.
Wisconsin’s Big Ten football game set for Saturday at Nebraska has been canceled because of positive COVID-19 tests among players and staff, including head coach Paul Chryst, UW officials announced Wednesday.
UW announced Wednesday morning that Saturday’s game at Nebraska is canceled and it is pausing all team-related activities for seven days “due to an elevated number of COVID-19 cases” within the program. The No. 9 Badgers are scheduled to host Purdue on Nov. 7, but it seems unlikely that game will be played due to the outbreak within the team.
The Big Ten Conference has the most restrictive rules of any Power Five conference on when a football player can return to the field after a positive COVID-19 test.
Sitting in his home speaking to reporters via a Zoom call, University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst said he didn’t have any symptoms following his COVID-19 diagnosis.
The Badgers will pause football activities for at least seven days after a dozen people in the program, including coach Paul Chryst and starting quarterback Graham Mertz, tested positive for COVID-19 in the past five days.
Barry Alvarez addresses the issue.
The Wisconsin Badgers football team announced Wednesday morning that they have paused team activities and as a result Saturday’s contest between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Wisconsin Badgers will be cancelled as a result of multiple cases of COVID-19 on the Badgers’ football team.
The Big Ten Conference has put in place protocols that determine when a game is to be canceled, but institutions are in charge of monitoring their COVID-19 situations and making choices based on that data.
State Journal sources confirmed Tuesday that starter Graham Mertz and backup Chase Wolf have tested positive using a rapid antigen test. CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd reported Tuesday morning that Mertz’s confirmatory PCR test came back positive. The status of Wolf’s PCR test is not known.
Since the Journal Sentinel and the State Journal published their reports, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Athletic Department has kept quiet on Mertz’ condition, issuing a statement Sunday citing medical privacy as the reason it won’t release coronavirus test results for any student athletes.
The Badgers will kick off their next home game against Purdue at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at Camp Randall Stadium.
“I will not and cannot and should not, therefore, comment about anything dealing with our testing and coronavirus,” Chryst said on a Zoom call with reporters Monday morning. “Certainly as a team, a program, we’re following the guidelines that were set in place by the Big Ten. A lot of work went into those and I feel confident with that. As a team, each day you try to keep working on things you can do to best take care of everyone in the program.”
There are multiple reasons why the University of Wisconsin decided to move men’s hockey games to LaBahn Arena for the 2020-21 season, senior associate athletic director Jason King said.
Badgerville turned into Boringville to avoid Covidville. Yes, the Wisconsin Badgers opened their delayed and shortened season on Friday with a 45-7 victory over Illinois, but without 80,000 fans.
