The two-week athletic shutdown at Michigan that was announced late Saturday didn’t have an immediate impact on the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team schedule.
The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams kicked off the start of their seasons in winning fashion Saturday at the inaugural meet in the Soderholm Family Aquatic Center.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team had a few stars in the 1970s, the decade when it came of age. In retrospect, none was as big as Mark Johnson.
With the unprecedented spring season finally set to begin Friday against No. 13 Purdue, Sheffield responded to five key questions about his team.
It never really had been an issue before this season that LaBahn Arena was built with only one fully appointed visiting locker room.
Saunders Nordeen, who oversaw Badgers women’s athletics after the UW Athletic Board approved varsity status in 1974, died Jan. 1 at age 80. She suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, according to an obituary.
Centers Alex Turcotte and Quinton Byfield were the Kings’ first-round picks the past two years but both might see short stints this season so as to not burn any time on their entry-level contracts. Neither player is in camp because they are participating in the World Junior Championship. Turcotte, who was the fifth overall pick in 2019, might have the edge in staying up for the full season after having nine goals and 17 assists at the University of Wisconsin last season.
Greg Gard, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin, postponed the planned Sunday game against Penn State University. “I couldn’t honestly look at my parents and their players and say: ‘I’m confident in the environment we’re walking into,’” Gard told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Before the 2020-21 season began, Greg Gard said multiple times he’d err on the side of caution when it came time to give his opinion on whether particular games should be played during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Badgers, coming off a runner-up finish in the NCAA championship in 2019, were voted No. 1 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s preseason poll released Tuesday.
The annual turnover of the roster will be markedly different this season after the NCAA approved a blanket waiver that didn’t count this year against players’ eligibility, which opens the door for seniors to return to their programs if they choose.
Nathan Dupont gets some interesting looks from fellow shoppers when he’s standing in line at the store with hundreds of dollars’ worth of toys in his possession.
The University of Wisconsin football team will play Wake Forest in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl on Dec. 30 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
We see the three and a half hour games on Saturday.
What we don’t see:
Wisconsin defensive end Matt Henningsen’s bicep torn off and rolled up in his arm after the Michigan game. It required reattachment surgery four weeks ago.
After an increase of COVID-19 cases on the roster wiped out six of the eight Badgers games scheduled for November and December, coach Mark Johnson said before Wednesday’s release the rest of the slate had to be easily moldable into whatever form is needed.
The lead researcher of the study at Wisconsin, Tim McGuine, said in an interview in August that “the greatest risk [to student-athletes] is not covid-19. It’s suicide and drug use.” The study caught the eye of the organization overseeing high school sports, the National Federation of State High School Associations, which was already dealing with an uptick in reports from state athletic directors about mental health concerns for teen athletes whose seasons were in flux.
It had an even more profound impact on the University of Wisconsin’s athletic department, whose coffers dwindled as its conference postponed the football season totally in August, only to decide weeks later to play the season in the fall after all.
Noted: It also includes some of the losses sustained by the University of Wisconsin athletic department and the Green Bay area following the cancellation of October’s scheduled football game at Lambeau Field between the Badgers and Notre Dame.
Chryst said he hasn’t had conversations with his team about playing or not playing a bowl game, but sounded as if he would support playing if the Badgers are afforded that chance.
It sounds like Barry Alvarez thinks too much was made of the Big Ten’s decision to reverse course on its rules and allow Ohio State to play in the league’s football championship game.
“We felt there was nothing to hide,” said Barry Alvarez, the athletic director at Wisconsin, which recorded at least 112 cases in athletics, missed back-to-back football games during an outbreak and had a third game canceled because of cases within Minnesota’s program. “We felt that it was in our best interest and everyone else’s best interest to put out accurate information, particularly if we had to cancel a game, so you wouldn’t have rumors or misinformation.”
The first scheduling snafu this season arrived for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, and nobody within the program was particularly surprised or discouraged.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s final two series of 2020 have been postponed due to a rising number of COVID-19 cases with the Badgers.
The Badgers, who already were in East Lansing as part of a road trip that began last week at Ohio State, started returning home Sunday night after learning earlier in the day one of their players had a confirmed positive test for the coronavirus.
Badgers coach Greg Gard knew all along that it would be a matter of when, not if, the schedule would have to be adjusted on the fly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That moment arrived four games into the season and No. 13 UW will host Rhode Island on Wednesday at the Kohl Center — tipoff is at 3:30 p.m. to accommodate the Big Ten Network — instead of playing Louisville as previously scheduled.
“Badgers give back is the philanthropic arm of Wisconsin athletics” said Jackie Davenport, the Director of Community Relations for UW Athletics. She added “They say we are the heart of Wisconsin athletics. We coordinate all engagement with the community and non-profits in our area.”
The status of Wisconsin’s basketball game Wednesday against visiting Louisville in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge remains uncertain because of at least one positive COVID-19 test within the Cardinals program.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s series at Minnesota was postponed Friday, less than 12 hours before it was supposed to begin because of at least two positive COVID-19 tests in the program.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez believes the Big Ten Conference may need to change rules regarding the conference’s football championship game if Ohio State isn’t eligible.
The stands were empty save for some cardboard cutouts of “fans” behind the team benches. Piped-in crowd noise is better than silence, but it hardly can be considered an atmosphere.
There weren’t many applicants for the Southwestern eighth-grade boys basketball coaching job in the fall of 1990, as Bill Taylor remembers it, and the field was whittled down even further when a couple of them didn’t bother returning his calls.
Nelson, a redshirt junior safety, is also playing with a purpose deeper than winning football games. He’s playing for the memory of a late friend and trying to be an example for people who are going through mental health struggles like he was to reach out for help.
In the seven years since, Engel-Natzke has developed alongside the players she has worked with as a video coordinator, most recently with the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team.
The Badgers’ regular season is scheduled to end with a road game at Iowa, but the slate beyond then is up in the air.
The men’s basketball team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison knows the road ahead could be rocky as they embark on a basketball season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
For the third time this college football season, Wisconsin’s players and coaches have lost a game to coronavirus.
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team’s season opener against Miami (Ohio) on Wednesday has been postponed due to protocols related to COVID-19 for the Redhawks.
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.
