“The safety and well-being of our student-athletes, staff and fans is our highest priority,” University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic director Barry Alvarez said in a statement. “We fully support the Big Ten Conference’s move to cancel conference-related sports events and activities for the remainder of the school year.”
“The decision was made in consultation with local and state public health officials to discourage and limit large gatherings in light of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation. Many other sporting events and tournaments across the country have also canceled their events, including the Big Ten and NCAA tournament,” Lovicott wrote in a release.
The University of Wisconsin football program will not host unofficial recruit visits this spring until further notice.
But there will be no postseason for the red-hot Badgers, whose 2019-20 campaign ended abruptly Thursday when the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments were canceled due to concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Sports in general are on hold or in question across the U.S. as pro, college and high school leagues try to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The WIAA boys’ basketball tournament will go on as planned at the Kohl Center, however, the number of tickets allotted to each team headed to the WIAA boys’ basketball tournament will be limited, the University of Wisconsin announced Thursday morning.
Penn State, Swarthmore, West Virginia’s Marshall University, the University of Virginia, the University of Tennessee system and the University of Wisconsin at Madison joined the rapidly expanding list of schools announcing plans to send students home and hold classes remotely.
“There’s a potential of closing the campus down,” Alvarez said, explaining he had just received an email from deputy athletic director Chris McIntosh alerting him of the meeting of senior staff. “I’m not exactly sure.”
The NCAA took the unprecedented step Wednesday of closing the doors of its March Madness basketball tournaments and other championship events to most spectators in response to the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Spring practices start Tuesday for the University of Wisconsin Badgers football team.
At the end of an emotional news conference Saturday afternoon at Indiana, the three men sitting to the left of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard put in some plugs for their boss.
Letter to the editor: UW-Madison needs to ring the arena floor with students, making the Kohl Center a tough place for visitors to play.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team has to share its first Big Ten regular-season championship in five years.
It is not clear why the team is offering a promotion with a school outside of the state.
In the depths of the Kohl Center, home of the University of Wisconsin’s Badgers men’s hockey team, another week has ended much like the one before it — and the one before that.
In April 2015, University of Wisconsin star forward Frank Kaminsky was named Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year. Kaminsky, who had just led the Badgers to two straight Final Four appearances, became the first Wisconsin player to ever receive the award.
University of Wisconsin senior center Abby Roque was named Wednesday as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association offensive player of the year.
Rick Giles, the president of event promoter Gazelle Group, said he wants the Holiday Face-Off that will feature the University of Wisconsin to be the top college hockey event of the season.
Whitted, who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons and Oakland Raiders during his NFL career, replaces Ted Gilmore, who left UW for Michigan State last month.
After high school, Williams was recruited by West Virginia University, the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana’s Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Connecticut, the University of Iowa, Virginia’s Old Dominion University and more, according to a 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer profile.
More spectators used their University of Wisconsin football tickets for games at Camp Randall Stadium in 2019 than the year before.
The Badgers will open spring practices on Tuesday, March 10, and have another on Thursday, March 12. After taking a week off for the university’s spring break, UW gets back on the field Sunday, March 22.
They were the longest five seconds of his life.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus stood inside a Madison, Wis., courtroom six months ago, on trial for two sexual assault charges. As Judge William Hanrahan prepared to read the verdict, a bevy of thoughts suddenly raced through Cephus’ mind.
Tight end Luke Benzschawel has played his final football game for the University of Wisconsin.
The graduate of Grafton High School announced via Twitter on Monday he has decided to quit playing because of lingering issues with his surgically repaired right knee.
Noted: Heiden said afterward he didn’t relish the idea of being on cereal boxes or other forms of publicity. He did what he could to return to a quiet life and obtained his medical degree. He first attended the University of Wisconsin and then completed his undergrad work at Stanford University before completing his medical degree in 1991. He became an orthopedist like his father, Jack Heiden.
When UW Athletics Director of Inclusion Sheridan Blanford joined the university in August 2017, she was at the forefront of Diversity and Inclusion efforts in collegiate sports.
When UW Athletics Director of Inclusion Sheridan Blanford joined the university in August 2017, she was at the forefront of Diversity and Inclusion efforts in collegiate sports.
One of the sayings that Mark Johnson is fond of using as coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team is that every game has a story. With one game, however, that is a dramatic understatement.
Mark Johnson has led the University of Wisconsin-Madison to five national championships as head coach of its women’s hockey team. As a player, he holds the record for career goals by a Badger. Though he went on to play 11 seasons in the NHL, Johnson’s most famous achievement came as an amateur in Lake Placid, New York.
The University of Wisconsin women’s swimming team won the 800-yard freestyle relay on Day 1 of the Big Ten Conference swim and dive championships on Wednesday.
Former University of Wisconsin football head coach Barry Alvarez, who led the successful turnaround of the Badgers program during his 16 seasons at the helm, will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.
The topline story in the New York Times “Sports Sunday” section of Feb. 9 likely brought a smile to anyone interested in women’s intercollegiate athletics. It concerned the robust rivalry between the women’s basketball teams at the University of Oregon and Oregon State Universities. A recent game drew more than 12,000 fans.
University of Wisconsin officials on Friday released ticket information for the Badgers’ non-conference football game against Notre Dame on Oct. 3 at Lambeau Field.
The UW-Madison rowing team spent the evening in a competition for a good cause.
For the first time since 1977, the Badgers have home-court advantage for the ITA Division I National Men’s Team Indoor Championship at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. Matches start Friday, with the championship on Monday.
It’s impossible to know how the Badgers’ all-time stats will look a decade down the road, but as of now, Roque and Campbell are building impressive legacies.
The cost of construction work at the University of Wisconsin’s three most prominent athletic facilities weighs heavily into an 18% budget increase requested by the athletic department for the next fiscal year.
Construction work on three capital projects designed to improve the Kohl Center, Camp Randall Stadium and the University of Wisconsin Field House is set to begin soon.
Target released a statement apologizing for some misprinted onesies bearing the name “Minnesota Badgers” in the familiar University of Minnesota maroon and gold, releasing a statement to WCCO-TV.
“Color us red,” the statement began. “As a Minnesota-based company, we know we are home to the Gophers.”
There wasn’t a playbook to follow as a small group within the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program tried to navigate the uncomfortable aftermath of Erik Helland using a racial epithet in front of players last month.
The spectator count for University of Wisconsin volleyball matches at the UW Field House has never been higher than it was during the 2019 season.
As the University of Wisconsin makes a final push to equal its U.S. women’s hockey attendance record in Sunday’s Fill the Bowl game at the Kohl Center, coach Mark Johnson said his players’ preparations can only go so far.
This was a day to reminisce, to celebrate the past and to honor a coach and a group of players who helped lay the foundation for the heights the Wisconsin men’s basketball program has since reached.
The abrupt resignation of Erik Helland, the strength and conditioning coach for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team for the last six-plus seasons, appears to have hit the players hard.
Words of support poured out for Erik Helland a day after he resigned as the strength and conditioning coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
The proposal, which Big Ten athletic directors submitted to the NCAA in October, calls for student-athletes across all sports to be allowed one transfer in their five-year eligibility window without sitting out a year-of-residence at their new school.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletics spokesman Patrick Herb said in a news release Thursday that Erik Helland, director of strength and conditioning, resigned his position Thursday afternoon. Helland had been the strength and conditioning coach for the Wisconsin men’s basketball program since 2013.
A University of Wisconsin men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach, Erik Helland, resigned Thursday after a school probe into allegations that he used a racial epithet around at least one Badgers player.
Erik Helland, the strength and conditioning coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, resigned Thursday after officials concluded an investigation regarding his use of a racial epithet in front of players more than a month ago.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s basketball coach resigned Thursday after the university confirmed he used a racial slur in front of players while telling a story about his time working in the NBA. It wasn’t directed at any specific players, the university said.
The Wisconsin Badgers won 10 games last year and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they lost by one point to the Oregon Ducks. That marked the final game of running back Jonathan Taylor’s University of Wisconsin career. He’ll go down as one of the program’s all-time greats.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said college athletics’ “only alternative” in response to multiple states passing or considering laws allowing athletes to capitalize on their name, image and likeness is to seek clarity through federal legislation.
University of Wisconsin women’s hockey juniors Daryl Watts, Grace Bowlby and Breanna Blesi were chosen Tuesday as Western Collegiate Hockey Association players of the week.
Hilliard averaged 15.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game with a .520 field-goal percentage as the Badgers split two conference games last week.
The UW Athletic Board met Friday afternoon and approved the following recommendations of the UW Department of Athletics regarding contracts for Paul Chryst, Kelly Sheffield and Paula Wilkins the university announced on Friday.
Pewaukee High School and University of Wisconsin product J.J. Watt gave comedy a swing as host of Saturday Night Live on Feb. 1, and it was a pretty successful debut in the late-night showcase.
In arguing a case for the University of Wisconsin to host the NCAA women’s volleyball championships at the Kohl Center, Badgers coach Kelly Sheffield comes armed with details.
In a promo for his hosting gig on this Saturday’s “Saturday Night Live,” Pewaukee native and former University of Wisconsin Badgers star J.J. Watt gets a “test” from “SNL” regular Kyle Mooney.
In the wake of news that Kobe King was leaving the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, another prominent player to move on from the Badgers program chimed in with some thoughts in a Twitter exchange.
“After talking with my family and friends I have decided that the best step for my future basketball aspirations, as well as my love for the game, is to immediately step away from the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program,” King wrote. “This has been a very tough decision for me … however, after spending almost three years in the Wisconsin program I have realized that this program is not the right fit for me as a player and person.
