The University of Wisconsin and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association were absorbing the news Wednesday that North Dakota is dropping its women’s hockey program.
Bob Bostad applied for the Badgers’ defensive coordinator position before joining Paul Chryst’s staff as inside linebackers coach, according to a list of applicants obtained by the State Journal through an open records request.
University of Wisconsin sophomore forward Ethan Happ was named an Associated Press Third-Team All-American on Tuesday. Happ becomes the sixth UW player to be named to the AP’s All-America team since the award was first given out in 1948.
It’s pretty common for players who just finished their collegiate careers to pen a note on social media thanking fans, the university, their teammates, etc. (see: Vince Biegel, T.J. Watt, Ryan Ramczyk, and Zak Showalter).
NEW YORK — In the past two decades, through unconventional approach, Wisconsin has elevated itself to college sports royalty.
Bucky Badger is spreading UW goodwill all over the Big Apple. The University of Wisconsin mascot and a bunch of other Badgers fans were on the Today Show Thursday morning, photobombing the hosts during the live broadcast on the plaza.
Remember to wear red Friday. Governor Scott Walker declared Mar. 24 “Badger Red Day” throughout Wisconsin ahead of the UW-Madison men’s basketball Sweet 16 game against the University of Florida Gators.
Observant Badgers fans may be wondering why legendary UW band director Mike Leckrone has been missing from the NCAA tournament basketball games.
Carlini, who completed her storied University of Wisconsin volleyball career in December, still is a regular around the UW Field House. Three days a week she arrives at 6:15 a.m. for workouts with her former teammates.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team has once again sold out its share of tickets to see the Badgers play in the Sweet 16.
CHICAGO — Howard Moore loves busting brackets.The Taft graduate and former UIC head coach is an assistant coach at Wisconsin, which shocked No. 1 seed and defending national champion Villanova in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The eighth-seeded Badgers face fourth-seeded Florida in a Sweet 16 matchup Friday at Madison Square Garden.
Wisconsin point guard Bronson Koenig said his team is thinking a lot about the legacy they want to leave these days.
It wasn’t supposed to end this way for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team. The nation’s top-ranked team—statistically and in the polls all season—which also had the best player in women’s hockey fell short of a national championship Sunday afternoon as No. 2 Clarkson defeated the top-seeded Badgers 3-0.
This is brutal. The official University of Wisconsin-Madison Twitter account brought Villanova’s famous “crying piccolo girl” back after the Badgers upset the Wildcats in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. And the tweet was one word: “SWEET.”
The 2016-17 Wisconsin men’s hockey team was within one goal of a Big Ten tournament title and an NCAA bid, but despite outshooting Penn State 52-35 over more than four periods of play, the Badgers fell, 2-1, to the Nittany Lions on Saturday at Joe Louis Arena.
For the fourth straight season, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s run at a national championship ended in Frozen Four heartbreak.
The Masters of March are off on yet another mad dash through the NCAA men’s basketball tournament brackets.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has all of the trophies it could have claimed to this point .A prominent individual entry joined the team awards Saturday, when senior goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens became the fifth Badgers player to win the Patty Kazmaier Award as Division I women’s hockey’s top player.
There’s been a great disturbance in the force-of-brackets. As if millions were suddenly thrown in the trash. Chances are: Your bracket’s probably worthless, or at least one-fourth worthless, now that the Wisconsin Badgers took down defending champion Villanova in the second round of the tournament.
Hayes has been on the floor for 113 wins at UW, which trails only Josh Gasser (118) and Frank Kaminsky (114). Koenig is at 112; four days after making his debut against St. John’s, he never left the bench in the Badgers’ 59-53 home win over Florida.
The expectations started early, with the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team picked to win the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and given the No. 1 national ranking in preseason polls.
Goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens was named a first-team All-American for the second straight year on Thursday, and three of her University of Wisconsin women’s hockey teammates earned spots on the second team.
Lauren Carlini has been named a finalist for the AAU James E. Sullivan Award, presented annually to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.
Bob Bostad will earn $300,000 to coach the University of Wisconsin’s inside linebackers this season, according to documents released to the State Journal via an open records request.
Zak Showalter has experienced the zenith and nadir of the NCAA Tournament.
One thing that hasn’t changed much over the past two seasons is the starting lineup for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
Wisconsin sophomore guard Khalil Iverson sensed trouble as he walked off the Verizon Center floor Friday night in Washington, D.C.
The sophomore swingman for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team thought something was odd when he saw his brother waiting for him on his way to the locker room. The look on Kevin Iverson Jr.’s face made his younger brother realize something terrible had happened. Khalil Iverson soon learned two of his cousins had been shot to death on the north side of Columbus, Ohio.
Walker is picking the University of Wisconsin Badgers to win it all, even though the Badgers enter the tournament as a No. 8 seed in the East Region.
There are memories everywhere, every day, even when Lamont Paris is locked in on his responsibilities with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
Granato was named the Big Ten Conference’s coach of the year on Monday after leading the Badgers to a second-place finish in his first season.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s basketball team has been crushing it lately and we’re not even talking about on the court. Recently the Badgers have been taking time out of their very busy schedules – what month is it again? – to make the dreams of some very special fans come true.
After losing the Big Ten Championship game title to Michigan, the Badgers get the No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Wisconsin will face No. 9 Virginia Tech on Thursday in the Buffalo, NY regional matchup.
he Wisconsin Badgers have been slated as an 8th seed in the East Region. The Badgers will face Virginia Tech on Thursday in Buffalo, N.Y. The seed is much lower than previous projections for Wisconsin after UW finished second in the regular season and Big Ten conference tournament. If the Badgers beat Virginian Tech, they will have to go up against top overall seed and defending champion Villanova. Duke is the 2nd seed and Baylor is the 3rd seed in the region.
Free throw shooting has been anything but free for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team this season.
Less than an hour after losing to Michigan in the Big Ten Championship game, No. 24 Wisconsin (12-6 Big Ten, 25-9 overall) learned it would be playing Virginia Tech (10-8 ACC, 22-10 overall) in Buffalo on Thursday.
Vitto Brown almost never wears his two Final Four rings. He knows where they are—in a mural of his athletic achievements at his house in Bowling Green, Ohio—but the rings, for now, are just museum relics on display for visitors of the Brown house to marvel at.
When U.S. Paralympic sled hockey goaltender Steve Cash heard of the death of Jeff Sauer last month, he said one of the toughest realizations was that he could never make his coach proud again.
The emotions started to hit the six University of Wisconsin women’s hockey seniors when they got to LaBahn Arena on Saturday.
Losing to Michigan in the Big Ten Conference championship game was bad enough.The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team didn’t know it was going to get hammered by the NCAA tournament selection committee, too.
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard was diplomatic.Senior Nigel Hayes insisted he missed most of the NCAA Tournament selection show on Sunday after the Badgers learned their fate because he was looking for family.
When U.S. Paralympic sled hockey goaltender Steve Cash heard of the death of Jeff Sauer last month, he said one of the toughest realizations was that he could never make his coach proud again. Cash was one of many who spoke Thursday of their appreciation for Sauer at a celebration of the former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach’s life at the Kohl Center.
Rowers from UW-Madison and Stanford University faced off Thursday for a good cause. The rowers took part in a 100 kilometer ERG challenge to support the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, which raises funds to fight childhood brain cancer.
Former Wisconsin head men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan will be is inducted this fall into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, according to UWBadgers.com.
At this time next year, teams from the Big Ten Conference will be in a holding pattern as they wait for the start of the NCAA tournament or other postseason events. Howard Moore, an assistant coach with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program, knows the feeling.
It was frustrating at the time, but going against Frank Kaminsky on a daily basis paid dividends for Ethan Happ while he was redshirting during his first season with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.Two years later, Happ is an All-Big Ten first-team selection. That honor was announced Monday when the conference revealed its 2016-17 awards.
Five members of the No. 24 Wisconsin men’s basketball team received season-ending awards from the Big Ten Conference on Monday, headlined by Ethan Happ earning first-team All-Big Ten recognition.
Carlini was named Monday as one of 18 semifinalists for the 87th AAU James E. Sullivan Award presented annually to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.
On this senior night, there was a big showing of support for Koenig, as he played his last game at the Kohl Center. Members of the Ho-Chunk Nation met for a watch party at the Double Tree in Madison Sunday evening, to watch the game and celebrate his career with Wisconsin.
Senior Night didn’t start out very well for Bronson Koenig. The senior guard for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team picked up his second foul 5 minutes into the game and was forced to watch from the bench for the rest of the first half as 22nd-ranked UW and red-hot Minnesota were locked up in a tight game Sunday at the Kohl Center.
Only later did Sarah Nurse realize the reason why she frightfully couldn’t hear anything while lying on the ice was that the sellout crowd at LaBahn Arena had gone silent.
Rose Lavelle’s whirlwind year continued Saturday evening when earned her first cap for the Women’s National Team as they battled England in the SheBelievesCup at Red Bull Arena in New Jersey. She became the 14th player to earn a first cap under head coach Jill Ellis.
Until Thursday, only one person from the University of Wisconsin had been a two-time top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award as the top women’s college hockey player.
PHOENIX — About 15 minutes before class, the professor sits down in an office a few doors from Room 550 at Arizona State University’s law school, where he will commence a two-hour lecture titled, “The Power of the Commissioner.”
With spring practice less than two weeks away, one of college football’s best defenses must begin breaking in two of the most unconventional coaching hires of the offseason.
Trades can be an unfortunate part of the business of professional sports. Players are forced to uproot their lives and start over in new cities, with new teammates and new coaches and new surroundings.
MADISON – Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ is among the 10 semifinalists for the 2017 Naismith Trophy, given annually to the top basketball player in the country.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said he peers out his office window “about every day” to reflect on how much Camp Randall Stadium has developed since he took over as the football program’s coach in 1990.
The Big Ten Conference announced Monday that Wisconsin will boast 10 pre-seeded wrestlers heading into the Big Ten Championships in Bloomington, Indiana, March 3-5.
After an overachieving season that saw the University of Wisconsin win its first BCS/New Year’s Six Bowl game in 17 years, Badgers head coach Paul Chryst and offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph have been rewarded with pay raises.
