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.
Badgers running back Corey Clement has been cited with two counts of Disorderly Conduct in the fight that happened November 8 at the Hub apartment building in Madison. Three others are cited in the incident, as well.
Madison Police say the story released by Wisconsin Athletics earlier this month was not reflected in the video footage obtained during their investigation, going so far as to say the news release was not factually accurate.
University of Wisconsin running back Corey Clement was cited for two counts of disorderly conduct, after a fight inside The Hub, Clement’s downtown apartment building.
The fight was witnessed by a few residents and was captured on security and cellphone cameras.
One cellphone video shows the tail end of a fight. Clement heads down the stairway at the beginning of the clip, and a security guard and a few others remain by the elevators.
Wisconsin junior running back Corey Clement has been cited for two counts of disorderly conduct for his role in a Nov. 8 fight at his off-campus residence, according to a release from UW Athletics.
“We were informed yesterday by Madison police that Corey Clement was cited for two counts of disorderly conduct for his role in an incident on Nov. 8. When we first became aware of this incident, we knew this was a possibility,” the release said.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team earned the No. 6 overall seed for the NCAA tournament and will face Oregon in a first-round match on Thursday at the UW Field House.
There was something fishy about the dozens and dozens of coconut doughnuts delivered this week to the campus police at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Clement on Tuesday received two citations for disorderly conduct in connection with the incident, while two men from the opposing group, and a girlfriend of one of those men, received one citation each for disorderly conduct. The incident occurred in the early-morning hours after the Badgers’ victory the previous night against Maryland. Clement, who has been struggling to recover from a sports hernia operation, did not make that trip.
The Wisconsin women’s hockey program and head coach Mark Johnson announced the signing of seven student-athletes for the 2016-17 season on Tuesday.
Joining the Badgers next fall are goaltenders Alyson Baldwin (Richmond, Texas) and Nicole Cece (Oakville, Ontario), forwards Alexis Mauermann (Janesville, Wisconsin), Presley Norby (Shorewood, Minnesota) and Abby Roque (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) and defensemen Maddie Rowe (River Falls, Wisconsin) and MeKenzie Steffen (Centerville, Minnesota).
Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens has made the adjustment from growing up in Quebec, Canada to going to school in Madison, Wisconsin.
Desbiens recently set an NCAA record of 543 minutes and 57 seconds of consecutive shutout hockey, breaking Jessie Vetter’s mark.
A man who was kicked out of Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday’s Wisconsin football game let UW-Madison police know he wasn’t happy about what happened — but that there were no hard feelings — by sending them 240 coconut doughnuts on Monday.
In 1966, an “American Graffiti” atmosphere was giving way to the tumult of the Vietnam War era on the UW campus in Madison. Many of these photos from that year are from the UW-Madison Archives.
Almost a half a century ago, as the Wisconsin Badgers prepared to play the Minnesota Golden Gophers in their season finale, the campus was on the verge of melting down over the Vietnam War, beloved coach Milt Bruhn was pressured out of his job two days before the game and, unlike today’s well-funded and popular squad, the team was disrespected and unloved. Somehow they overcame all of this to play one of the most memorable games in Badger history.
University of Minnesota football coach J.E. O’Brien had always refused to play in Madison because he said the Badgers weren’t worth the trouble of the trip.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department received a strange, anonymous delivery of 20 dozen coconut doughnuts on Monday, the department posted on Facebook.
A California man sent 20 dozen coconut doughnuts to police officers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as payback for getting kicked out of a Badger football game.
In a letter to Wisconsin Badger fans, UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez declared his disappointment in the “snowball throwing incidents” that took place Saturday during the Badgers’ game against the Northwestern Wildcats. A game the Badgers lost 13 to 7.
The University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics is reacting to the snowballs thrown at Camp Randall on Saturday.
As the vendors passed me with the warm chocolate for sale at $8.25, I realized coming to this game was like being invited to a friend’s house and entering a dirty home. UW had the ability to minimize the snow with some effort, they just chose not to. They were a very poor host.
(Video) Badgers fans braved the cold at Camp Randall Sunday for the team’s last home game.
(Video) Officials say a winter storm rolling through Southern Wisconsin Friday evening will cause increased wait times at Saturday’s Badger football game, as traffic moves slower and security personnel search fans’ coats. Dannika Lewis reports.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police report more than 100 fans were ejected from Saturday’s Big Ten football game against Northwestern at Camp Randall Stadium.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports fans threw snowballs and ice at each other and onto the field as the season’s first big snow hit Madison.
Friday and Saturday’s winter storm brought about 4 inches of snow to Madison. With snowfall ending around noon Saturday, crews did not have time to clear seating sections before the 2:30 p.m. game against Northwestern. Fifty people were ejected from the stadium for throwing snowballs and other hard objects, according to UW-Madison police.
The Wisconsin cheerleaders were forced to leave the field and hide in a stadium tunnel after being pelted by snowballs thrown by the Badgers faithful, according to multiple reporters on the scene.
When it comes to kicking fans out of Big Ten football games, Wisconsin is the runaway leader and Penn State hovers near the middle, according to data obtained by PennLive from the five conference schools with the largest stadiums.
The University of Wisconsin announced there will be an increased police and security presence at Saturday’s football game versus Northwestern.
Madison is under a winter storm watch starting Friday evening and ending at 3 p.m. Saturday, not long after the 2:42 p.m. kickoff, with the forecast calling for a snow accumulation of between 4 inches and 7 inches.
Associate head coach Greg Gard is on a mission. Well, two of them, actually. There’s his job as Bo Ryan’s right-hand man, and Gard is doing everything he can to help the young Badgers … grow up in a hurry. The other objective is more personal for Gard, whose father, Glen, died last month at the age of 72 of glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer.
Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan and his team went 1-1 Tuesday, losing a key battle off the basketball court before dispatching North Dakota, 78-64 on the court.
Even if Wisconsin’s Corey Clement plays again this season, the junior tailback soon will face a significant and complex decision.
Freshman forward Andy Van Vliet has officially been ruled ineligible for the 2015-16 season after the NCAA upheld their initial decision following an appeal by UW.
Van Vliet has sat on the end of the bench through Wisconsin’s first two games of the regular season, waiting patiently for a decision to be made regarding his eligibility, and with the decision now final, that is where he will remain for his freshman year.
Wisconsin softball head coach Yvette Healy struck gold in the 2016 signing class. Healy and the rest of the softball coaching staff will bring in four top-notch softball players, including the 2015 Wisconsin Gatorade Player of the Year and some of the Midwest’s top talent, to Madison next fall.
“The class of 2016 is filled with some of the top Midwest talent in the country,” Healy said. “Anytime you can sign two prolific, first-team, all-state Wisconsin kids, like Kayla Konwent and Jordan Little, exciting things are happening in the state. Kate Menz and Sydney Lawson are two of the top athletes to emerge from the state of Iowa.”
For the second consecutive season, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team unfurled an NCAA Final Four banner prior to its opener.Unfortunately, the similarities between last season and this season ended once the banner took its place in the Kohl Center rafters.
Former coach Gary Andersen fled Madison after only two seasons, causing some UW fans to scan the national scores every Sunday morning and revel in his latest loss at Oregon State. Fans have had their share of fun, too, because Andersen has seven losses in nine games with the Beavers. But there is no reason for UW fans to act like jilted lovers. Instead of laughing derisively as Andersen’s losses pile up, they should be thanking him profusely for realizing what has become apparent in the 11 months since he left: His hiring at UW was a colossal mistake.
The University of Wisconsin has issued a release detailing how running back Corey Clement suffered a cut to his hand following an assault at his off-campus apartment early Sunday morning.
According to the release, Clement was returning to his apartment building when he witnessed a dispute between a security guard and a group of people. Clement stepped in to the dispute. According to UW, Clement and the security guard were then assaulted by the individuals.
The rise of social media has put college athletes face-to-face with both fans and detractors while also forcing those players to be cognizant of what a simple sentence or two could do to the reputation of themselves or the school they attend.
Morris, who played football at Alabama in the early 1990s, has worked in the UW Athletic Department since 2010, when he joined the department’s business office. He became director of financial operations in 2014.
University of Wisconsin running back Corey Clement suffered a cut on his hand following an incident at his off-campus residence early Sunday morning, according to a university release.
As Wisconsin freshman Andy Van Vliet waits to learn whether he will be eligible to play basketball in 2015-’16, his fate rests with UW’s ability to successfully argue the case is unusual and doesn’t fit the NCAA eligibility rule in question.
In arguably the best signing class of head coach Bobbie Kelsey’s tenure, Kelsey and the Wisconsin women’s basketball team have signed six recruits for 2016-17, including one top-100 recruit and three who have been in the top 100 at some time in their careers. The recruiting class is ranked as the No. 15 recruiting class in the nation by Blue Star Basketball.
Kelly Sheffield doesn’t expect his 2016 recruiting class to be as highly ranked as his 2015 class, which was pegged No. 3 in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com.
It’s been nearly two decades since Mark Vershaw stood on the mound of dirt that eventually would become center court at the Kohl Center.
When University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced his retirement plans over the summer, even some in his extended basketball family were surprised by the news.
(Video) The Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey team is off to a 10-0 start and ranked number one in the nation.
It’s one thing for a collegiate men’s basketball program to finish fourth or better in its conference for 14 consecutive seasons. It’s an entirely different matter when it happens at a school that has little basketball tradition and plays in a conference that is as deep and strong as any in the nation. Only in that context can we fully appreciate what Bo Ryan has done since he was named coach at the University of Wisconsin in 2001.
If Koch Industries is trying to recruit new hires at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “they’re making waves in the wrong pool,” Kyle Dunn, a Madison resident and UW alumnus, told the Wisconsin Gazette at halftime last Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
When the University of Wisconsin football team plays Maryland today, it will be the second time in three games Badgers coach Paul Chryst will look across the field and see a coach wearing an “interim” tag.
According to a report released Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Defense spent $6.8 million on sports marketing contracts since 2012.
After receiving two consecutive WCHA Defensive Player of the week nods, Wisconsin women’s hockey netminder Ann-Renée Desbiens was named the WCHA Defensive Player of the Month, announced by the conference on Thursday.
Freshman Andy Van Vliet did not dress for Wednesday night’s game while a pending eligibility issue is resolved.
The University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brewers have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Wisconsin Army National Guard for ceremonies honoring soldiers and their families, renditions of “God Bless America” and other military promotions, according to a report from two senators who deride the marketing strategy as “paid patriotism.”
The 1997 season was something of a watershed for the University of Wisconsin volleyball program. The Badgers posted a 30-3 record, advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight for the first time and shared the Big Ten Conference championship, beginning a five-year run that would include three titles.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Bill Battle is near the 30-yard line with his fellow alumni, gripping hands and flashing a lighthouse smile, reassuring one and all that all is right in the University of Alabama athletics department, which he runs. Near the edge of the field, Molly Brautigan and fellow sorority sisters laugh and plot their postgame festivities.
decade ago, the University of Wisconsin was in the midst of a national championship season. It was churning out NHL players left and right and packing the Kohl Center.
In the past few years, the Pentagon spent $6.8 million to pay for patriotic displays during the games of professional sports teams.
