Category: Athletics

University of Wisconsin senior Kelsey Card was named the co-Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week, the conference announced on Wednesday.

Noted: Levy played at UW from 2005-08 and was drafted in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft by the Lions.

The University of Wisconsin will officially announce Jonathan Tsipis as its new women’s basketball head coach on Thursday.

Tsipis comes to UW after four years as the head coach at George Washington.

The loss of All-Big Ten Conference wide receiver Alex Erickson is one the University of Wisconsin football team might be able to overcome.

A recurring theme during the introductory news conference for University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Tony Granato and his staff Wednesday was their determination to bring in elite level recruits in the coming years.

The No. 1 priority for Gard is filling out his staff. Gary Close informed Gard earlier this week that he was resigning after 13 seasons as an assistant at UW.

Throughout his career as University of Wisconsin athletic director, Barry Alvarez has occasionally had to address the perception of short shrift for Wisconsin’s men’s hockey program from the department.

On Wednesday, his best answer to those critics may have been the three men sitting to his right on a stage set up on the Kohl Center’s sheet of ice.

Following a standout season that culminated in a pair of top-10 finishes at the NCAA championships, Wisconsin junior Matt Hutchins was selected as 2016 Big Ten Men’s Swimmer of the Year, as announced by the conference on Tuesday.

Hutchins is the first male Big Ten Swimmer of the Year in Wisconsin program history. He is the first Badger to win the award on either the men’s or women’s side since Maggie Meyer in 2011.

Tony Granato will be introduced as the new Wisconsin Badgers head men’s hockey coach at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Kohl Center.

Wisconsin assistant coach Gary Close, who recently completed his 13th season on the men’s basketball staff, has resigned.

University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Gary Close is leaving the program, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The new University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coaching staff and women’s basketball coach will be formally introduced in press conferences Wednesday and Thursday.

One All-America accolade already secured, junior Matt Hutchins of the Wisconsin men’s swimming team secured his second All-America honor of the week on Saturday night with a third-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle at the 2016 NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships in Atlanta, Georgia.

Melanie Cross of the Wisconsin softball team earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors after helping the Badgers to a 4-1 week on the road, as announced by the league on Monday.

The State Journal is reporting that Jonathan Tsipis is expected to be named the next head coach of the Wisconsin women’s basketball program. The UW Board of Regents have scheduled a meeting for 5pm Tuesday to discuss the contracts for a new women’s basketball coach, along with a coach for the men’s hockey program.

Two new head coaches are expected to be officially introduced to the University of Wisconsin athletics department this week.

The UW Badgers football team will hold a spring practice session in Green Bay this weekend. The team will be in Green Bay on Saturday. Head coach Paul Chryst said spring practice is a time when coaches and players can work on self-improvement.

The Executive Committee of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will hold a teleconference Tuesday to approve contracts for new coaches to lead the UW men’s hockey and women’s basketball programs.

The University of Wisconsin will name Tony Granato as the next men’s hockey head coach, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

The only guaranteed departure from a team that went 22-13 and advanced to the Sweet 16 — UW’s fifth trip to the second weekend of the tournament in the past six seasons — is former walk-on Jordan Smith. The fifth-year senior guard finished with four points and two rebounds in nine games, meaning the Badgers could return 99.8 percent of their scoring and rebounding in 2016-17.

If everything had followed the script, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program would be in a state of upheaval right now … Instead, the heavy lifting has been done. After a year of extreme transition involving coaches and players, the program is largely intact and the future looks comfortably familiar, which is to say it looks very bright.

Pinfold touched the wall in 1 minute, 33.79 seconds in the B final after posting the second-best mark in school history in the preliminaries. He was UW’s only competitor in Friday’s finals, helping the Badgers finish the day in 22nd place out of 42 scoring teams with 25 points.

Bayer, a former All-Big Ten Conference setter and assistant coach with the Badgers, will become director of operations. She succeeds Jessica Williams, who is leaving the program after three seasons in that role.

Tony Granato is set to be named the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach, according to multiple reports.Granato, a two-time second-team All-American as a player for the Badgers from 1983 to ’87, will succeed Mike Eaves, who was fired on March 18 after 14 seasons.

A source close to the UW program on Sunday confirmed reports that Tony Granato, who played at UW from 1983 through 1987 and has coached in the National Hockey League for more than a decade, has agreed to take over the Badgers program. An announcement on the hiring is expected this week.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s basketball team are taking on Notre Dame Friday night in the team’s fifth appearance in the NCAA’s Sweet Sixteen in six years. But the Badgers’ success on the court isn’t always matched with success in the classroom.

A top University of Wisconsin-Madison athletics staffer sitting on the sidelines during the Badgers’ tournament run has a past that could call his loyalty into question. Brian Lucas is a communications director who primarily works with football and the men’s basketball team.

They’ve been going against each other for three seasons, with nothing more than bragging rights at stake.

Wisconsin fans are still buzzing about Bronson Koenig’s three-point buzzer-beater to stun Xavier and send the Badgers to the Sweet 16.

A top University of Wisconsin-Madison athletics staffer sitting on the sidelines during the Badgers’ tournament run has a past that could call his loyalty into question.

After a record-breaking season in net for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team, junior Ann-Renee Desbiens was named the USCHO Player of the Year, the group announced Wednesday.

We’re about 48 hours away from tip off in the Sweet 16 match-up between Wisconsin and Notre Dame. But, if you’re not lucky enough to watch the game in Philadelphia, here are the next best options.

The Badgers have arrived at the Sweet Sixteen. The team pulled into their hotel after 9 p.m.Wednesday night in advance of their matchup with Notre Dame on Friday.

The University of Wisconsin football team will practice in Green Bay before playing LSU in the Carmex Lambeau Field College Classic in September.

U.S. colleges trying to respond decisively to complaints of sexual assault are getting slammed with lawsuits from men who say they’ve been unfairly suspended or otherwise punished.

[T]he Badgers have built a winning tradition on a foundation of 18 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and back-to-back Final Fours. When a program wins year after year, players develop a healthy conceit about success: We’re supposed to win, and we’ll find a way.

College hockey appears to be in great shape. With three first-time champions in the last three years, Arizona State having completed its first season in Division I, and the highest graduation success rate among men’s major sports, it is poised for further growth.

Greg Gard’s trust in his players has been evident all season, but never more than the final seconds of Wisconsin’s 66-63 victory over Xavier on Sunday night at the Scottrade Center.

Redshirt junior guard Zak Showalter entered the game leading UW in charges taken this season with 15. That was 10 more than the No. 2 player, Nigel Hayes with five.

The narrow defeats, each more debilitating than the previous, kept coming.

Wisconsin fell by two points to Western Illinois, by one to UW-Milwaukee and by two to Marquette.

Big Ten losses to Purdue, Indiana, Maryland and Northwestern — by a combined 15 points — left UW 2-7 in games decided by six points or fewer.

When junior point guard Bronson Koenig made a step-back 3-pointer from the right corner as time expired to give the Badgers a 66-63 victory over Xavier, it set off eruptions from UW fans in the (St. Louis) Scottrade Center and beyond.

Jonathan Tsipis, the women’s basketball coach at George Washington University, has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Bobbie Kelsey as coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, according to multiple sources.

Donors and season ticket-holders bought up all of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s allotment of tickets to see the Badgers take on Notre Dame in the Sweet 16, Athletic Department officials said Monday, meaning members of the general public will have to look elsewhere for a seat at the game.

ST. LOUIS — Tom Landry coached the Dallas Cowboys for 29 seasons. Jim Boeheim is in his 40th year leading Syracuse. Connie Mack managed the Philadelphia Athletics for a half-century.

The Wisconsin women’s hockey team saw its season ended by Minnesota for the third-straight year in a NCAA Frozen Four contest, as the Badgers fell 3-2 in overtime to their Border-Battle rivals on Friday at the Whittemore Center Arena.

Junior Isaac Jordan put the cap on an incredible season as he finished as a national runner-up for the Wisconsin wrestling team at the 2016 NCAA Wrestling Championships on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

Connections to the Wisconsin Badgers basketball franchise run deep in St. Louis. One former Badger is making a name for herself in the coaching world.

“That’s a dream. When you’re from Wisconsin, and you can go play at the UW-Madison, is there anything more perfect,” said Nancy Fahey, the Wash U head coach.

It’s a hot topic in Badger Sports after UW’s Hockey Coach Mike Eaves is fired after 14 years.

The assistant coach made the drive from Ohio, where his mom is recovering from a stroke, to be at the Badgers’ game Friday night in St. Louis

After University of Wisconsin junior guard Bronson Koenig hit two 3-pointers in the final 13 seconds to beat the Musketeers, 66-63, in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Sunday, someone changed the first line of Xavier’s Wikipedia page

Ninety-six days after its season was turned upside down, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team strolled into the Scottrade Center Sunday night with a chance to advance to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament.

Bronson Koenig played the hero on Sunday night, hitting two of his six 3-pointers in the final seconds to send the Wisconsin Badgers to a 66-63 win over the Xavier Musketeers in St. Louis.

Wisconsin women’s hockey sophomore Annie Pankowski received the Elite 90 Award for having the highest cumulative grade-point average at the 2016 NCAA Women’s Hockey Frozen Four on Thursday.

A zoology major with a 3.85 cumulative grade point average, Pankowski received the award during a banquet at the Portsmouth Harbor Event Center.