Category: Athletics

University of Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst was named the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year, the league announced on Tuesday.

On the day he was introduced as the 30th head coach in the history of the Wisconsin football program, Paul Chryst was asked whether returning to his alma mater represented his dream job.

The University of Wisconsin is the No. 3 seed in the NCAA volleyball tournament, the highest seed in program history.

Although many had experienced the same thing when Bret Bielema left for the, um, greener pastures of Arkansas in 2012, the University of Wisconsin football players were still shocked two years later when coach Gary Andersen told them just hours after the Big Ten Conference Championship Game that he was fleeing for the, um, academic flexibility of Oregon State.

The attorney for one of the two former UW football season-ticket holders whose tickets were used by two people in costumes that depicted President Barack Obama in a noose said his client “condemns” their actions.

The University of Wisconsin football team moved up one spot to No. 6 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night.

“On Wisconsin” is a song Wisconsinites hold near and dear, especially during football season. Not only is it the famed fight song for the University of Wisconsin-Madison football team, it is also the official state song, just with different lyrics.

The NCAA title hopes came to an end for the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team Friday night.

It could have been a season to forget for the University of Wisconsin cross country teams.

Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy, one of the NFL’s most interesting players and an activist who speaks out for human rights and against domestic violence, has called breaking Joe Paterno’s leg “my proudest moment in college”.

The Wisconsin basketball players Nigel Hayes and Jordan Hill took a step behind their teammates during the national anthem before the ninth-ranked Badgers’ season opener on Friday. It was another in a long series of visible protests from one of college basketball’s most socially aware locker rooms.

For the second-straight week, the trio of Ethan Happ, Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig were all named to another major national award watch list.

After the No. 12 Wisconsin men’s cross country team stole the show at the 2016 NCAA Great Lakes Regional, UW Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Mick Byrne and junior Morgan McDonald have earned Great Lakes Region Coach and Athlete of the Year honors, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced Tuesday.

The University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team gave the nation’s top-ranked team all it could handle in the Big Ten Conference tournament final.

Bolstered by four runners in the top 17, the University of Wisconsin women finished in third place on Friday at the NCAA cross country Great Lakes regional meet at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course at University Ridge — and made a strong case for an at-large bid to the NCAA championships in the process.

Many fans missed the opening tipoff and a good portion of the first half during Friday night’s game because of long lines formed from newly implemented security measures at the Kohl Center.

UW-Madison police officers had a relatively quiet time Saturday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium during the Wisconsin-Illinois football game, with only 20 arrests made and 21 citations issued.

When the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced the 2017 Naismith Trophy watch list on Thursday, only four schools in the country had three nominees named to the 50-player list.

Like it did in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls earlier in the week, the University of Wisconsin moved up one spot to No. 7 in the College Football Playoff rankings, which were released Tuesday night on ESPN.

When the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team gathered for the start of its eight-week summer session in June, there were three new players on the roster.

The University of Wisconsin will be one of six Big Ten schools to host a Friday night football game next season, the conference announced Tuesday.

The goals are listed on an 8½-by-11 inch sheet of paper and, Nigel Hayes reports, there are enough to fill nearly an entire page.

University of Wisconsin football players opted not to provide further comment following the Twitter release of a collaborative message by school athletes Monday night calling for UW to more aggressively address how students of color are treated at the university.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank apologized Monday for her school’s mishandling of a situation at an Oct. 29 football game against Nebraska in which two fans were not asked to leave after depicting Donald Trump hanging Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama with a noose.

When the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team gathered for the start of its eight-week summer session in June, there were three new players on the roster.

Just three months off of a gold medal performance at the Rio Olympics, triathlete Gwen Jorgensen s already looking ahead to the 2020 games in Tokyo.

Ann-Renée Desbiens’ name is already littered all over the NCAA record book, but on Sunday, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s goaltender cleaned up one particular entry.

University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Wednesday that the university will change stadium policies in the wake of an incident Saturday when the Badgers took on Nebraska at Camp Randall Stadium.

It was the unmistakable scream of a distraught child,with the drama playing out just inside gate C of the UW Field House.As the mom led her weeping child away, she offered up a sigh andan explanation for the meltdown: “The volleyball match is sold out.”