Junior setter Lauren Carlini was named Wednesday to the American Volleyball Coaches Association first-team All-America squad for the second consecutive season. She also earned second-team honors her freshman season.
Gard woke up on Tuesday as the associate head coach of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team. When his head finally hit the pillow early Wednesday morning — it didn’t remain there for long — he was the Badgers’ interim coach, a promotion that followed the retirement of longtime mentor Bo Ryan.
Freshman members of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band won’t make the trip to San Diego for the Badgers’ Dec. 30 game against USC — a result, the band’s leader said, of the Holiday Bowl’s lower payout to participating universities.
What University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans dreaded for months became reality Tuesday night when Bo Ryan officially announced his retirement, effective immediately.
Omnipresent in Bo Ryan’s career was his high level of intensity, an insatiable desire to continually get better from play to play and, above all else, success. Another more impactful constant in Ryan’s coaching life has been Greg Gard.
When Ryan first announced that the 2015-’16 season would be his last as head coach of Wisconsin in June, he made it clear he wanted Gard to be his successor.
After nearly four decades as a coach at the collegiate level, Bo Ryan has finally decided to hang up the whistle for good.
The Bo Ryan era at Wisconsin has come to an end.
Wisconsin running back’s coach John Settle told reporters Tuesday night that running back Corey Clement will return to Wisconsin for his senior season. That’s what Settle said he was told by Clement. When Clement last spoke to the media in late November, he said unless he received a first or second round NFL Draft grade from scouts, he would return for his senior season. There is no word on whether Clement ever did receive a draft grade.
The Holiday Bowl will likely be the final game Alex Erickson will play in a Badgers uniform. Wisconsin’s coaches are awaiting an appeal on Erickson’s eligibility. Erickson enrolled at Wisconsin in the fall of 2011 as a student, but did not join the football team until the spring of 2012. He redshirted the 2012 season, but is still classified as a redshirt senior by the NCAA. Regardless of the result of the appeal, Erickson says he’s “probably” done with his college career and will focus on the next level.
Following the Badgers’ victory over Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Badgers head coach Bo Ryan announced his immediate retirement as the Wisconsin men’s basketball coach.
The news of Wisconsin head basketball coach Bo Ryan’s immediate retirement is making its way around campus.
Current and former Wisconsin basketball players took to social media Tuesday night after hearing the announcement that Bo Ryan’s retirement will take effect immediately.
Badgers basketball head coach Bo Ryan announced he will be retiring effective immediately, instead of at the end of the season.
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Badgers basketball head coach Bo Ryan announced he will be retiring effective immediately, instead of at the end of the season.
The methodical brand of basketball that Bo Ryan ran at Wisconsin rarely surprised opponents as it piled up wins and two trips to the Final Four over the last two seasons.
Ryan saved the biggest shocker of his career for his final game.
The 67-year-old coach abruptly retired on Tuesday night, 12 games into the season after his Badgers beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi two weeks before Big Ten play begins.
Bo Ryan’s 494th game as Wisconsin’s head men’s basketball coach was his last.
Looks like it’s time for the University of Wisconsin Madison Athletic Department to take the band’s advice to “Eat a Rock!”
Bo Ryan has believed for a long time that Greg Gard is ready to run a program. Gard will get that chance on an interim basis after Ryan announced Tuesday night that he’s stepping down as the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach.
Bo Ryan turned an ordinary Tuesday night after a nonconference Wisconsin men’s basketball game at the Kohl Center into an extraordinary outpouring of emotions.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced his retirement following the Badgers’ 64-49 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday night.
Longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison basketball coach Bo Ryan announced on Tuesday that he was retiring, effective immediately.
Badger men’s golf coach Michael Burcin announced the hiring of former South Carolina golfer Blaine Woodruff, as his assistant coach. Woodruff replaces Robbie Ziegler, who took a position with Taylor Made.
Wisconsin Badgers redshirt sophomore Riley Dearring announces on his Twitter account Sunday night that he’s decided to leave the UW program.
Dearring, a 6-5, 181 pound forward form Minnetonka, Minnesota, played in three of the Badgers’ 11 games this season averaging 0.7 points per game and 0.7 rebounds per game.
University of Wisconsin and former Monona Grove offensive lineman Jaden Gault will end his football career after doctors found blood clots in both his lungs during a hospital visit Wednesday night.
As the Wisconsin volleyball team rolls into Austin, Texas, this weekend for the NCAA Sweet 16, it has left a record to remember at the UW Field House.
Vicki Dowell headed to the Sprint Store on Saturday to update her cellphone. She was still driving when it rang.It was her son, Eau Claire native and professional hockey player Jake Dowell, who several weeks earlier had been tested for Huntington’s disease and was expecting to learn his fate today.
Prestige isn’t the only prize on the line for UW-Whitewater as it competes Saturday for a third consecutive trip to the NCAA’s Division III football championship.
College-application deadlines are looming for many high school seniors across the state.
The Big Ten’s best linebacker has been named one of the nation’s best, as well.
Wisconsin OLB Joe Schobert earned a place on the Walter Camp All-America second team on Thursday, the latest honor for the Badgers’ senior pass rusher. The honor comes on the heels of Schobert being named Butkus-Fitzgerald Big Ten Linebacker of the Year and a first-team All-Big Ten selection.
UW Athletics has issued a statement saying UW Marching Band freshmen aren’t the only ones not going to the Holiday Bowl later this month.
Questions were raised over funding for the university’s trip to the Holiday Bowl after the band announced Wednesday it would not be able to take freshmen and most band staff members along, citing UW Athletics funding restrictions.
In a statement to 27 News on Thursday, UW Athletics says the number of campus staff normally traveling to bowl games will also be adjusted.
University of Wisconsin and former Monona Grove offensive lineman Jaden Gault will end his football career after doctors found blood clots in both his lungs during a hospital visit Wednesday night.
UW Band director Mike Leckrone announced Tuesday that some 85 freshmen and a handful of staff members won’t make the trip. He said that he was not notified until Monday that he could only send 225 members on the trip.
MADISON, Wis. — The first word generally associated with Wisconsin safety Michael Caputo is tough. Football players, by their very nature, are often lauded for their toughness. Yet even by those standards, teammates say something about Caputo’s fierceness and determination just feels, well, extra tough, if that is quantifiable.
Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison band will be left behind when members make the trip to San Diego in a few weeks for the Holiday Bowl.
Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison band will be left behind when members make the trip to San Diego in a few weeks for the Holiday Bowl.
All freshmen in the band won’t be going on the bowl trip for the first time because of budgetary concerns.
WISC-TV (http://bit.ly/1jPjdSy ) reports band director Mike Leckrone says he was told by the university that he could send about 200 members on the trip – so about 85 students and a handful of staff won’t be going.
In a matter of weeks the University of Wisconsin football team will head to San Diego for the Holiday Bowl, but part of the UW Band won’t be along for the trip for the first time in Badger bowl game history.
Band Director Mike Leckrone announced Tuesday that all freshmen in the band will not be going on the trip because of budget issues. He was told by university officials he could only send about 200 members on the trip, so about 85 students and a handful of staff have been cut from the trip.
It’s Halloween morning, and Bryan Keleny is in front of the Adams Street house where he and his wife, Sally, raised two children many years ago. He now rents the house out, along with the one next door. Located less than a half mile from Camp Randall Stadium, they are moneymakers during football season.
Like Josh Gasser, his former Wisconsin teammate, Zak Showalter brings one valuable piece of equipment to every practice and every game.
A mouth guard.
Alex Erickson’s growth as a wide receiver at Wisconsin has been remarkable. . . Imagine what Erickson might be able to accomplish if he had one more season of eligibility.
Well, UW officials are contemplating that possibility.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team strengthened its hold on the top spot in this week’s USCHO.com poll with its weekend sweep of Minnesota.
With only the Holiday Bowl to play, the Badgers are being perceived from two dramatically different angles. Some see UW as a team that was 2 yards away from being 11-1 and earning a spot in the Big Ten Conference Championship Game. Others see a team that has underachieved because, despite its respectable 9-3 record, it doesn’t have an attention-grabbing, signature win on its resume.
The Wisconsin football team will make its first appearance in the Holiday Bowl after accepting an invitation Sunday afternoon to face USC on Dec. 30 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.
The Badgers, whose streak of 14 consecutive bowl trips is the best in the Big Ten, went 9-3 in the regular season, including a 6-2 mark that was good for third in the Big Ten West Division. USC is in a bowl for the fourth-straight year and making its 51st bowl appearance overall. The Trojans are 8-5 after falling to Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship Game yesterday.
Wisconsin is heading west for its bowl game, to face a Pacific-12 power.
The Badgers, the No. 6 seed, raised their game another notch Friday night to sweep Iowa State 25-18, 25-15, 25-21 in a second-round NCAA tournament match before a rowdy crowd of 5,578 at the UW Field House.
Lavelle was named a first-team All-American by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, becoming the first UW player to garner first-team honors since 1991.
The 9-3 Badgers, as nearly every media outlet and sports analyst predicted, will travel to San Diego to play in the Holiday Bowl at 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 30.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team is one win away from the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.
Just-released surveillance video shows Badger football player Corey Clement decking a man with a punch, and then being swarmed by the man and others in retaliation. Madison Police officials relied on the video to reject Clement’s claim he was the initial target of aggression in the incident Nov. 8 at The Hub apartments.
“His assertion that he was defending himself was not represented in the video,” detective Joel Peterson says.
When it comes to setting goals, Lauren Carlini is all about “go big or go home … So as Carlini embarks on her third NCAA tournament run with the University of Wisconsin volleyball team, it’s safe to assume she’s aiming high.
No. 5: When Bo Ryan reneged on a retirement announcement that seemed to put a time stamp of one more year as head coach of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, he might as well have shaken Madison out of a bad dream where there was no Bo in Badgers basketball.
In this edition of Greta Talk, Coach Ryan catches up with UW alumna and Badgers super-fan Greta Van Susteren to talk about all things basketball. The pair also discusses Ryan’s induction into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, the possibility of him retiring after this season, and they even debate the issue of whether or not college athletes should be paid.
Mike Webster’s death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games—220 of them—than any other player in Steelers history.
Letter to the editor: Short of putting up a dome over the stadium, what was the UW Athletic Department supposed to do? With respect to snowballs — even a moron should know it’s dangerous and just stupid to throw a snowball or ice ball when so many people are in the area. W
Through struggles and inconsistency this season, the University of Wisconsin offense still landed four players on the list of All-Big Ten Conference teams that were released Tuesday night.
Wisconsin fans know Alex Erickson’s value to his team.
University of Wisconsin junior Lauren Carlini was named Big Ten Setter of the Year as the conference announced its postseason volleyball awards Tuesday. Carlini also was a unanimous selection for the All-Big Ten team, where she was joined by UW junior middle blocker Haleigh Nelson.
Led by the league’s top linebacker, three key components of Wisconsin’s No. 1-ranked defense were named All-Big Ten on Monday.
Senior OLB Joe Schobert was named Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year and was a consensus first-team All-Big Ten selection, while senior S Michael Caputo earned consensus second-team honors and junior OLB Vince Biegel was named to the All-Big Ten third team by both the league’s coaches and media.
Another five Badgers earned honorable mention All-Big Ten recognition: freshman ILB T.J. Edwards (coaches), senior CB Darius Hillary (coaches), senior S Tanner McEvoy (consensus), sophomore DE Chikwe Obasih (media) and junior CB Sojourn Shelton (media).
Schobert also was the only UW defensive player named a first-team All-Big Ten selection by the media and coaches Monday night. Junior Vince Biegel, Schobert’s partner at UW’s other outside linebacker spot, was a third-team honoree by the coaches and the media.
Paul Chryst’s first season as Wisconsin’s head coach is rapidly nearing its conclusion, with just a bowl game to go.
Joe Schobert’s rise from anonymity to all-star continues.
