The Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey team defeated Minnesota State 8-1 at LaBahn Arena Sunday afternoon to clinch the WCHA regular season championship. It was the Badgers’ first regular season title since the 2011-12 season.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department had to work around having one fewer home football game and a conservative projection for men’s hockey ticket sales in putting together its budget for the 2016-17 season.
The No. 2 Badgers defeated Minnesota State-Mankato 8-1 to clinch the program’s fifth Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season title, their first since 2011-12, in front of 2,273 at LaBahn Arena.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team crushed Minnesota State, 8-1, at the LaBahn Arena in Madison to win its fifth regular-season WCHA title.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department expects to lose $3 million from the absence of a seventh home game during the Badgers’ upcoming 2016 football season and likely won’t receive a previously expected $1.5 million in state funds to assist with a new roof for the Kohl Center.
Former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan is among the finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016, the organization announced on Friday.
Ticket prices for the University of Wisconsin’s football game against LSU at Lambeau Field on Sept. 3 will range from $91 to $118, the university announced on Thursday. Student tickets will cost $48.
Outside linebacker Joe Schobert, offensive tackle Tyler Marz and quarterback Joel Stave were part of a list of 332 invited participants that was released Thursday.
Letter to the editor in support of the UW men’s hockey team.
Ticket prices for Wisconsin’s 2016 football opener against LSU on Sept. 3 at historic Lambeau Field will range from $48 to $118, according to UW officials.
University of Wisconsin junior point guard Bronson Koenig was asked about the challenges of playing on the road. Koenig’s shooting numbers are significantly higher in home games this season, so it was fair to wonder about the difficulty of playing in an unfamiliar environment and, of course, using a different ball. “I’d say it’s a little overblown,” Koenig said. “Out of the Big Ten, the Under Armour balls at Maryland is the only place I really, really didn’t like the balls.”
University of Wisconsin sophomore Morgan McDonald, who broke the school record for the indoor mile at Saturday’s Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York, was named the Big Ten’s co-track athlete of the week on Wednesday.
As the Wisconsin swimming and diving program wrapped up its regular season at home last weekend, four Badgers earned Big Ten Conference weekly honors for their outstanding performances at the meet against in-state foe Green Bay.
UW’s pair of Danielle Valley and Cannon Clifton swept Big Ten Swimmer of the Week honors, while Hazel Hertting earned women’s Big Ten Freshman of the Week and Clark Carter was chosen as men’s Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week.
During last Friday’s dual meet against Green Bay, four UW Natatorium pool records fell, including a pair set by Olympic gold medalists in 2003 and 2004.
After breaking the Wisconsin men’s track and field record in the indoor mile last Saturday at the Armory Collegiate Invitational, sophomore Morgan McDonald was named the Big Ten Conference Co-Track Athlete of the Week, the league announced Wednesday.
It marks the first time that McDonald has earned a Big Ten track athlete of the week award in his career, as he shares this week’s award with Penn State’s Isaiah Harris.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez has brought a lawsuit against a former attorney, claiming the lawyer failed to do everything possible to help the Alvarez family recoup more than $1 million in losses as the result of a Ponzi scheme.
University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic director Barry Alvarez and his family, who lost $1 million to a $930 million Florida ponzi scheme, have now sued the Madison lawyers they hired to try to recoup some of that investment.
Daronte’ Jones, who recently finished his first season as Wisconsin’s defensive backs coach, is leaving for the National Football League.
Gard has UW (14-9, 6-4 Big Ten) on a roll as it reaches the stretch run of the regular season. The Badgers are 7-4 since Gard took over late on the night of Dec. 15 and have won five consecutive games heading into a matchup with Nebraska (13-11, 5-6) tonight at the Kohl Center.
A former Badger turned NFL player was in court Monday for allegedly battering his girlfriend early Friday morning. Madison police said Montee Ball, 25, was at the Hampton Inn and Suites on West Johnson Street at 3:43 a.m. when he was physically violent toward his girlfriend.
Former NFL and University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball won’t face felony charges related to an incident early Friday in which police say he injured his girlfriend during an argument at a Downtown hotel.
Former Wisconsin tailback Montee Ball on Monday was charged with two misdemeanors — battery and disorderly conduct — for his alleged actions during two incidents involving his girlfriend.
Hundreds of teams applied, but a team of UW-Madison researchers was one of only eight teams that were chosen in the Mind Matters Challenge co-sponsored by the NCAA and U.S Department of Defense.
Together these two entities have contributed more than $40 million towards the study of concussions. The UW-Madison team consists of Assistant Professor of Human Ecology Dee Warmath and Athletic Training and Kinesiology Professor Dr. Andrew Winterstein.
Over the next two years the team will work with some of the 2,500 student and club team athletes on UW-Madison campus. These students will help them test out new strategies for getting the word out on how dangerous ignoring a concussion can be.
In 30 games this season the Badger women’s hockey team has only lost once. Nearly no one has been able to skate with the Badgers, except for the fans. Sunday at Vilas Park the Badgers held their annual open skate for the fans. Warmer temperatures made the ice more like slush, but the event still allowed fans to get pictures and autographs.
A former Badger turned NFL player is accused of battering his girlfriend early Friday in Madison, police said. Madison police said Montee Ball, 25, was at the Hampton Inn and Suites on West Johnson Street at 3:43 a.m. when he was physically violent toward his girlfriend.
Former University of Wisconsin and NFL running back Montee Ball was arrested early Friday after a woman reported he threw her, injuring her leg.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are planning to study the messaging around concussions, using $400,000 in funding from the NCAA and the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the Mind Matters Challenge.
Sophomore Morgan McDonald took to the spotlight Saturday, breaking the University of Wisconsin record in the mile en route to a fourth-place showing in the invitational section at the Armory Track Invitational. The native of Sydney, Australia, clocked in at 3 minutes, 57.83 seconds, one tenth of a second faster than Austin Mudd’s 3:57.93 set in 2013.
If this National Football League thing doesn’t work out for these Carolina Panthers players, well, maybe they’ve got a future in finance. Dispelling the typical jock image associated with football players, punter Brad Nortman and long snapper Jeffrey Richard “J.J.” Jansen, proved they’ve got skills beyond the gridiron, handling a battery of questions about the stock market.
In honor of Black History Month and former Wisconsin head coach Bill Cofield, the Badgers will be wearing special throwback Adidas uniforms several times in the month of February. UW will be wearing the uniforms modeled after those worn in 1976, Cofield’s first year as head coach in Madison.
The most questionable piece of the University of Wisconsin’s 2016 football recruiting class, it turns out, wasn’t even all that much in doubt.
Chris McIntosh, director of development at the University of Wisconsin since December of 2014, on Thursday was named Associate Athletic Director for Business Development.
Count former Maryland coach Gary Williams among those who are impressed with the work done by Wisconsin interim head coach Greg Gard.
Senior class officers at University of Wisconsin-Madison didn’t choose a famous entertainer, author or politician to give the Class of 2016 commencement address May 14.
When Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst interviewed Daronte’ Jones last year, he asked one critical question: “Do you think the guys on the East Coast would come to Wisconsin?”
Camp Randall is the crown jewel of this campus, but the stadium doesn’t need renovations all the time to keep it that way. Spending millions on something that isn’t really necessary is an absolute waste.
The Big Ten Network announced that it will televise the Wisconsin men’s basketball home game scheduled against Illinois on Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. CT at the Kohl Center.
One of the biggest reasons for Wisconsin’s four-game winning streak is the clutch play of junior Nigel Hayes. In the final minutes, and into overtime against Indiana and Illinois, Hayes went a perfect 17 for 17 from the free throw line. According to UW, in the final five minutes of games this season Hayes is 87% (48-55) from the foul line.
After moving up the NCAA record books last weekend in the No. 2 Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s sweep of St. Cloud State, junior goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens was recognized not only as the WCHA Defensive Player of the Week, but the American Sports Network Player of the Week, the organizations announced Tuesday.
Justin Wilcox’s coaching career, which began discreetly when he took a job as graduate assistant at Boise State in 2001, was trending upward for more than a decade.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Thursday is scheduled to consider amended compensation packages for head football coach Paul Chryst and Joe Rudolph, UW’s associate head coach/offensive coordinator.The board is also scheduled to consider the proposed compensation package for Justin Wilcox, who was recently hired as UW’s defensive coordinator.
Coach Paul Chryst is set to unveil Wisconsin’s 2016 freshman class Wednesday, and although it is too early to project the level of success the players will enjoy on the field, UW officials are encouraged by their academic résumés.
Wisconsin men’s hockey head coach Mike Eaves announced on Monday that goaltender Ryan Breon has been added to the roster as a walk-on.
For the third-straight week, Ethan Happ of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team has earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, as announced by the league on Monday.
Recognized as Co-Freshman of the Week, Happ averaged 15.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game and helped lead the Badgers in wins over No. 19 Indiana and Illinois. The forward from Milan, Illinois, poured in a career-high 25 points on 10-of-15 shooting against the Hoosiers, pulling down eight rebounds and swiping a career-best four steals in UW’s overtime win in Madison.
Justin Wilcox was introduced Monday at a press conference as the Badgers new defensive coordinator. Wilcox appeared with head coach Paul Chryst in front of the media four days after being officially hired. Wilcox replaces Dave Aranda who left UW for the same job at LSU. Wilcox comes to Wisconsin after being let go as USC’s defensive coordinator. Wilcox was one of several assistants let go after former USC head coach Steve Sarkisian was fired.
The Wisconsin athletic department is considering “major renovations” to Camp Randall Stadium, according to an email sent to supporters last week.
Alvarez stopped short of speculating about the future of the program on Monday, but he made it clear that Gard has made a solid first impression in the 10 games since he took over for Bo Ryan on Dec. 15.
For almost a decade, Justin Wilcox was a rising star in the college football coaching ranks. … Then USC happened.
The Badgers officially spent $311,013 on (football recruiting) expenses in 2014, which ranked 12th out of 13 Big Ten programs according to documents obtained by the State Journal via open records requests.
When Owen Daniels looks to the sky as he discusses plans for life after the NFL, just know that he’s not searching for an answer.
[A]t the University of Wisconsin, it is business as usual for coach Paul Chryst leading up to college football’s signing day Wednesday. The Badgers will quietly assemble their typical class, one that consists largely of 3-star recruits with a few 4-stars sprinkled in, one that ranks in the 20s or 30s nationally, one that with time and development likely will put UW in contention for a Big Ten Conference title.
Justin Wilcox, who has spent the last 10 years as a defensive coordinator at Boise State, Tennessee, Washington and USC, has been named Wisconsin’s defensive coordinator pending University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approval, head coach Paul Chryst announced Thursday.
As a kid, you might dream of going to the Olympics, but for one former UW athlete that dream is within reach.
Japheth Cato was the first-ever four-time Big Ten Title holder for the heptathlon, and he also still holds three school records for the University of Wisconsin.
Cato is now putting all his eggs in the decathlon basket and training to hopefully be a part of the US team during the Rio 2016 Olympics.
You could say Roichelle Marble was made for a life on the hardwood.
“Honestly I don’t remember not having a basketball growing up, ” Roichelle, better known as Shelley, said after their Tuesday morning practice, “I think I was just born with a natural love for the game. Of course, from my dad.”
Wisconsin head football coach Paul Chryst has filled the lone vacancy on his staff.
Wilcox, 39, was fired from Southern California in December after two years as the program’s defensive coordinator.
There were just 48,289 tickets scanned as fans entered the Oct. 31 game, according to data provided by the Wisconsin athletic department. That means the stadium was nearly 40 percent empty. The announced attendance for Rutgers’ first appearance at Camp Randall as a Big Ten foe was 74,575. That figure represents the number of tickets sold or distributed for the game.
With the inaugural “Super Saturday – College Hoops & Hockey” doubleheader set for Saturday in New York City, the Big Ten announced future matchups for 2017, 2018 and 2019, with Wisconsin set to compete at legendary Madison Square Garden on Jan. 28, 2017.
The doubleheader features conference competition on an annual basis in late January or early February, with nine different Big Ten institutions competing in men’s basketball and/or hockey from 2016-19.
Next season, the Badgers will take on Rutgers in men’s basketball and Ohio State in men’s hockey.
Former Southern California defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox is finalizing terms to take the same position with the Badgers, according to FootballScoop.
Justin Wilcox, who served as defensive coordinator at USC for two seasons before being fired last month, appears poised to replace Dave Aranda at Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is returning to the Big Apple in 2017.UW is scheduled to participate in the Big Ten’s second “Super Saturday – College Hoops and Hockey” event next winter.
