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Quintez Cephus leaving Wisconsin early for the draft

College Football Talk

The reason for Cephus not playing in 2018 stemmed from an off-field issue.  The University of Wisconsin announced in mid-August that Quintez Cephus had been reinstated and was again a student in good standing at the school, two weeks after being found not guilty on a pair of sexual assault charges and almost immediately seeking reinstatement.

Wisconsin Fans Turn Downtown LA Red Before Rose Bowl

Wisconsin Public Radio

In addition to fans donning their “Beat Oregon” pins, the pep rally drew University of Wisconsin-Madison dignitaries like Chancellor Rebecca Blank and athletic director Barry Alvarez. Monday marked Alvarez’s 73rd birthday. Fans sang to him before he gave a rousing speech.

Jason Joyce: UW volleyball is killing it

The Capital Times

Coming off decisive victories over Illinois State and UCLA in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament last weekend, Wisconsin, the fourth seed, faces 13th seeded Texas A&M at 1 p.m. Friday. The winner of that match will face, on Saturday, the winner of the 3:30 p.m. Nebraska/Hawai’i tilt for a trip to the Final Four next week in Pittsburgh.

Badgers assistants Alando Tucker, Joe Krabbenhoft take teaching to next level as members of scout team

Wisconsin State Journal

It’s all worth it to Krabbenhoft and Tucker, who seem to thoroughly enjoy their time on the scout team that goes against UW’s rotation players in practice. Not only does it help fill a competitive void for two of the more cutthroat players in program history, Krabbenhoft and Tucker see it as a great, on-court teaching mechanism as they try to get the Badgers ready for the next game.

Rose Bowl berth rewards Badgers for 10-3 season

Wisconsin State Journal

UW stayed at No. 8 in the final College Football Playoff rankings, good enough to earn the Big Ten’s bid to the Rose Bowl, where the team will take on No. 6 Oregon. The game is a rematch of the 2012 Rose Bowl, when the Russell Wilson-led Badgers fell to the Ducks 45-38.

DJ Shawna is the Bucks official DJ, opened for Lizzo, and still plays at the small bar where she started

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: UW took notice and hired Nicols to be the Badgers’ official DJ in 2018-’19 for all home football and men’s basketball games. She returned again this year for the football season.

“I feel very lucky at Camp Randall to push play for ‘Jump Around’ and 80,000 people shake the stadium. That blows my mind,” she said about the Badgers’ post-third-quarter tradition. “And to get 80,000 people to sing “(Build Me Up) Buttercup”? At a football game? I get choked up. I literally get choked up.”