Wisconsin women’s hockey players Ann-Renée Desbiens, Annie Pankowski and Courtney Burke were each named 2016 CCM Division I Women’s Hockey All-Americans.
Desbiens was named a first-team All-American on Thursday at the NCAA Frozen Four Banquet, while Pankowski and Burke were each named to the second-team. All three Badgers earned their first All-America accolades of their respected careers.
Mike Eaves has been relieved of his duties as the UW Men’s Hockey coach after 14 seasons, according to Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez.
Badgers basketball forward Nigel Hayes is at it again at the NCAA Tournament. Last year, Hayes and some of his fellow teammates went viral after they became fascinated with the news conference stenographer. The interaction between Hayes and the stenographer continued throughout the tournament.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez has fired men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves after 14 seasons, UW Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced Friday.
Mike Eaves’ run as men’s hockey coach at Wisconsin’s is over. One day after the Badgers suffered a 5-2 loss to Penn State in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament and were eliminated from contention for an NCAA berth for the second consecutive season, UW officials announced Friday that Eaves will not return for the 2016-’17 season.
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The University of Wisconsin announced Friday that it has fired men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves. Eaves led the Badgers program for 14 seasons and helped UW win its sixth NCAA title in 2006. The Badgers also reached the 2010 NCAA championship game. He finishes with a career record of 267-225-66.
The Badgers saw their season come to an end Thursday with a 5-2 loss to Penn State in the first round of the Big Ten Conference tournament at the Xcel Energy Center.
t’s possible nobody in the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program was more giddy on Selection Sunday than Howard Moore. The assistant coach thought back to 22 years earlier, when he was a player at UW and the Badgers found out they’d made the tournament for the first time in 47 years and would be playing in Ogden, Utah.
The University of Wisconsin women’s swimming and diving team is in 18th place after the second day of the NCAA championships on Thursday night.
Is Wisconsin entering the NCAA Tournament with a bench that is running on empty?
The numbers suggest the answer is yes.
UW’s reserves peaked during the Badgers’ 67-59 victory on Feb. 24 at Iowa by contributing 23 points, eight rebounds and four assists in 50 minutes.
March has become a month when Wisconsin celebrates the muscle of its athletic department. The last 14 years the Badgers have played in a college football bowl game and then qualified for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. It is the longest streak in NCAA history.
Noted: Favor Hamilton is one of the greatest middle-distance runners in U.S. history, a three-time Olympian who won 23 Big Ten and nine NCAA track and cross-country titles at the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin tailback Corey Clement started out 2016 in style.”I took almost a month off my legs just to recuperate,” Clement said Tuesday morning after UW finished the second practice of the spring. “No lifting at all. I’m getting back to it.”
Word spread quickly through the Wisconsin roster, one phone at a time. Shortly after UW returned from Evanston, Ill., where a Jan. 12 loss to Northwestern left the Badgers 1-4 in the Big Ten and 9-9 overall, junior forward Nigel Hayes sent out the communiqué: Players-only meeting. Attendance mandatory.
The leaders of the highest-profile athletic programs at Wisconsin know all about the pride and pressure that come with coaching in their home state. Football coach Paul Chryst is a native son, just like Greg Gard, newly minted as the full-time basketball coach. Both also were former Wisconsin assistants.
Tickets for the Badger men’s basketball game against Pittsburgh in St. Louis on Friday sold out before they were available for public sale.
Teams that aren’t eager or capable of suffering a few bruises from wrestling with coach Jamie Dixon’s Pittsburgh teams generally don’t fare well.
University of Wisconsin forward Luke Kunin was named Monday to the Big Ten Conference All-Freshman men’s hockey team, in a vote of the conference’s coaches and a media panel. Kunin, the only Badger honored, leads the team with 18 goals and ranks second among Big Ten freshmen with 31 points.
This sounds too good to be true, a little too convenient, but I promise you it happened: On the afternoon I went to go see Nigel Hayes at Wisconsin, the Official Word of the Day was “catawampus.”
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team (20-12) received the No. 7 seed in the East Region and will face 10th-seeded Pittsburgh (21-11) in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament on Friday at Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The game time will be announced later Sunday evening.
Greg Gard’s seamless transition — from interim head coach to undisputed leader of the Wisconsin men’s basketball program — received the final stamp of approval Sunday: the Badgers reached the NCAA Tournament for the 18th consecutive season.
Wisconsin fans may wonder why CBS’ NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection program didn’t show the Badgers reacting to their bracket assignment. Fifteen minutes before CBS announced Wisconsin would play in St. Louis, the players started to see on Twitter that someone had leaked the entire NCAA bracket online.
Two celebrations down, one to go. Two goals achieved, one left to attain. That’s the situation the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team is in heading into NCAA tournament play tonight against Mercyhurst at LaBahn Arena.
Editor and Publisher, a newspaper industry trade magazine, has recognized the Wisconsin State Journal in its annual issue that highlights 10 newspapers across the country, “That Do It Right.” The accolades come from the newspaper’s marketing partnership with the UW-Madison Athletic Department.
The University of Wisconsin junior posted personal records in three events en route to a fourth-place finish in the pentathlon at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday in Birmingham, Alabama.
The University of Wisconsin senior won the pole vault and amassed a Big Ten Conference-record 6,173 points Saturday to win the heptathlon title at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
The Badgers (20-12) are in the NCAA tournament for the 18th consecutive season, this time as a No. 7 seed in the East region. They’ll open play at 5:50 p.m. Friday vs. Pittsburgh (21-11) at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, with a possible matchup with No. 2 seed Xavier (27-5) waiting in the second round on Sunday.
Greg Gard was announced as the next Badgers head coach on Tuesday. The applications were sent to UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez.In a response to an open records request, the UW released the applications of nine of those who applied for the job.
With Donald Trump continuing to lead the race to be the Republican Party’s nominee in the 2016 presidential election, a few applicants for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball head coaching position cited his slogans and compared themselves to Trump in their cover letters.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez watched intently.He was intrigued to see Greg Gard implement several changes immediately after Bo Ryan’s retirement Dec. 15.
Gard went from his introductory news conference Tuesday afternoon to helping the Badgers (20-11, 12-6 Big Ten) prepare for the Big Ten tournament. UW will face either Nebraska or Rutgers in a second-round game on Thursday night in Indianapolis.
After spending 12 weeks as an interim coach, Gard was rewarded with a five-year deal that will pay him $1.75 million in the first year and increase $50,000 each additional year. Gard began his news conference by saying it was an “extremely special moment for me” and his family. He went on to thank several people, a group that included family, friends, UW administrators, support staff and former coaches, including Bo Ryan.
After six refrains of “On Wisconsin,” Greg Gard on Tuesday finally made it to the podium inside the Nicholas Johnson Pavilion, connected to the Kohl Center, ending an uncomfortable two minutes of athletic department staff members looking around for any sign of the coach.
In elevating Gard — the Badgers’ interim coach since his mentor, Bo Ryan, abruptly retired in December — to the permanent coaching position two days before the start of the Big Ten Conference tournament, Alvarez followed a tried-and-true formula for success at UW. He hired a coach who has lived and breathed Badgers basketball for decades, who brings unquestioned commitment and loyalty to the program, who fully understands how to function and win at the school.
The new head coach of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, Greg Gard, was formally introduced at a news conference Tuesday at the Kohl Center.
The University of Wisconsin announced Friday that women’s head coach Bobbie Kelsey will not be retained.
The UW Board of Regents approved the contract for Greg Gard, making him the 16th head men’s basketball coach in UW history.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletics Department officially announced Greg Gard as the basketball team’s head coach Monday. The UW Board of Regents approved Gard’s contract at a meeting Monday night, which made Gard the 16th head men’s basketball coach in UW history.
Ethan Happ began the 2015-16 season as a bit of an unknown in the Big Ten. It didn’t take long for the redshirt freshman forward to make a name for himself and on Monday he was named the conference’s Freshman of the Year by both the coaches and the media.
Wisconsin teammates Nigel Hayes and Ethan Happ proved during the regular season they were among the better players in the Big Ten Conference.
When Greg Gard leads Wisconsin into the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament later this week he will do so as the Badgers’ full-time head coach.
Gard was named the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Monday evening, the school announced in a news release. The announcement came after the UW Board of Regents Executive Committee met at 5 p.m. and approved a five-year contract for Gard.
The UW Board of Regents approved a new head coaching contract on Monday and Greg Gard was named the 16th head men’s basketball coach in the school’s history.
Deadspin reporter Kevin Draper has had a busy 48 hours.
Saturday morning, his internet news publication story went viral. “I got a few hours of sleep last night, but most of the hard work was getting everything, no so much the writing.”
Printed (with all the source-documents), it’s 36-pages. Draper started working it a month ago after Ryan first announced his retirement. “We started hearing the same rumors a lot of people heard, so we got together a public record request that we thought might get us something, and we did, we got an email that blew this open.”
An attorney for former Badger Men’s Basketball Coach Bo Ryan released the following statement to 27 News Saturday afternoon, in response to allegations of misconduct and a UW investigation that cleared Ryan of any wrongdoing.
A UW-Madison investigation into former Badgers Men’s Basketball Head Coach Bo Ryan has cleared him of allegations that he used university funds while having an affair.
After practice on Friday evening Greg Gard acknowledged that he had heard about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report, that stated UW officials are preparing to offer Gard the full-time UW men’s basketball position.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s head basketball Coach Bobbie Kelsey “will not be retained,” Athletic Director Barry Alvarez said Friday. According to the Badgers Athletics website, the school terminated Kelsey’s multiyear contract.
Retired University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan was cleared of allegations that he misused university resources, according to a statement from Chancellor Becky Blank Saturday.
Greg Gard has been picked to replace Badgers basketball coach Bo Ryan, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
When the Mary B skimmed across the ice of lakes Monona and Mendota in the early 1950s, she shared her exploits in the Wisconsin State Journal sports pages with the University of Wisconsin boxing team, three-time NCAA champion Don Gehr-mann’s ability to run the mile for the Badgers and basketball games at Central High School.
The University of Wisconsin football team will hold its annual Pro Day on March 9, the university announced on Friday.
Five years ago the University of Wisconsin gambled that Bobbie Kelsey’s championship pedigree as a player and assistant coach at perennial powerhouse Stanford could rub off on the UW women’s basketball program.
Before Louis Holland began his battle with Alzheimer’s about five years ago, he was one of the most competitive people Merritt Norvell ever met.
The regular season is over and March Madness officially starts .After starting out just 9-9, the Badgers put together a run of 11 wins in 13 games to finish 20-11 and secure yet another top-4 finish in the Big Ten standings.
With the release of a letter written by University of Wisconsin chancellor Rebecca Blank, rumor finally turned into reality Saturday.
UW-Madison investigated allegations last year that then-men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan misused university resources while having an affair with a woman, later clearing him of any wrongdoing, university officials said Saturday.
The Bobbie Kelsey era ended Friday, mercifully for fans of the Wisconsin women’s basketball program.
University of Wisconsin officials released a statement Saturday saying that former men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan did not misuse university funds during the course of an extramarital affair while he was coach. The statement also said UW did not force Ryan to resign over the affair.
