In a back-and-forth battle which saw 13 ties and 13 lead changes, No. 13 Illinois came out on top over Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament championship game, 93-87.
The fair will be held from 1-3 p.m. on April 7 as part of UW-Madison’s 175th anniversary Community Open House. There will be a live band, inflatables and giveaways.
Without a third-party service for securely selling student tickets, students that miss out on season tickets are forced to use social media to seek out and purchase student tickets.
E.J. Whitlow’s contract to be the University of Wisconsin defensive line coach includes a raise and two bonuses in the second year that boost the overall value of the deal to $650,000 over two years.
Four players on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team earned All-Big Ten honors following a fifth-place finish in the conference standings, the Big Ten announced Tuesday.
Between construction, parking and two athletic events, sports fans can expect traffic congestion downtown this weekend – beginning as early as Thursday.
Maybe Alvarez has never even been in a position to quote Twain. Until now, that is, when Alvarez states, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.’’
Last week, there was a rumor on the internet that the 77-year-old Alvarez had died.
National Player of the Year Sarah Franklin, middle blocker Carter Booth and opposite Devyn Robinson are among the 17 collegiate players training in Anaheim, California, through Friday with a scrimmage scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday. They also will get to train with a pair of Olympic gold medalists in outside Jordan Larson, who played at Nebraska, and setter Jordyn Poulter, who played at Illinois.
The team began competing at the national competition last week Friday in Rice Lake and after six games over three days, they became national champions Sunday.
How the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team handled the opening 10 minutes of Saturday’s WCHA championship game against top-ranked Ohio State was paramount for coach Mark Johnson.
The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track and field teams turned in some stellar performances at this season’s NCAA Indoor Championships, with 11 of the 12 Badgers athletes competing in Boston securing All-America honors during three days of fierce competition.
Add former University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez to a growing number of folks who are worried about the future of college football.
University of Wisconsin junior wrestler Dean Hamiti was nearly speechless last year after winning a Big Ten championship, a dream he’d harbored since first putting on a singlet.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is headed to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the 2024-25 season.
Moore’s family was involved in a tragic auto accident on Memorial Day weekend in 2019 that claimed the lives of Moore’s wife, Jen, and 9-year-old daughter, Jaidyn.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is celebrating 50 years of its women’s athletics programs.
It’s a journey that dates all the way back to 1895, when coach Andrew O’Dea consented to being the women’s boating crew coach. Women’s basketball was soon to follow in 1897.
Howard Moore made his return to the Kohl Center on Saturday afternoon to a long and rousing ovation from the crowd.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh welcomed each of Howard Moore’s family members to center court at halftime on Saturday at the Kohl Center.
Prior to the opening tipoff against Illinois — on a day dedicated to honoring Moore and his family — there was a video on what has befallen him. Some old teammates were featured.
Reflecting on everything the Wisconsin men’s basketball program endured during the 2019-2020 season conjures so many memories, some dreadful and some delightful.
Nine University of Wisconsin women’s hockey players earned all-league honors Thursday, including first-team selections for Caroline Harvey, Casey O’Brien and Kirsten Simms.
Dzick started with a simple cheer he’d done as a student at Wisconsin-Madison, where he graduated in 1969 with a degree in political science. He started spelling out “B-A-D-G-E-R-S” and it caught on. Wisconsin went on to win the series and the program’s third national title a week later.
Former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Edwina Qualls, the first Black women’s basketball coach in the Big Ten Conference, died earlier this month. She was 76.
The State Building Commission signed off on plans to build a new football practice facility on the site of the Camp Randall Sports Center and McClain Center, and that project also includes money for the Kohl Center rink project that was estimated to cost about $2.5 million.
The University of Wisconsin football program’s new assistants are set to make a bit less than their predecessors.
Jackson Sharp, Adam Spencer, others emerge victorious in Ohio on Saturday.
A journalist sued the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its fundraising arm after the university denied his request for an athletic department consulting agreement that could shed more light on the name, image and likeness era of college athletics.
The Badgers announced their spring schedule on Wednesday, featuring three matches in the month of April including one at the UW Field House.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is reportedly donning a lab coat for injured NFL athletes.
Former University of Wisconsin center Larry Petty, who played for the Badgers from 1977-81, died last month at his home in Poynette. He was 65.
Former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Edwina Qualls was recently inducted into the Big Ten Impact Pioneers Class of 2024.
Bo Ryan, Wisconsin’s coach of 15 years before retiring in December 2015, is one of 14 finalists in consideration for the 2024 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class. The finalists were announced on the Hall of Fame’s live show on NBA TV Friday afternoon, a lead-in to coverage of the NBA’s All-Star Weekend.
“For people who have certain injuries, a gait analysis can help us correct the mechanics that might cause it to recur,” said Dr. Bryan Heiderscheit, a professor in orthopedics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of Badger Athletic Performance in Madison.
Letter to the editor: For years we were stuck watching losing hockey on TV. Finally we have a product worthy of being televised each and every week. Even the local station used to show a few games every year. Evidently nobody seems to care.
Wisconsin college coaching legend Bo Ryan is on the doorstep of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame after being selected as finalist for the Class of 2024 on Friday evening in Indianapolis.
JJ Watt had an eventful Super Bowl broadcast, and it wasn’t for anything the CBS commentator said.
The Pewaukee native, former University of Wisconsin star and future NFL Hall of Famer debuted a hairstyle that seized control of the internet discourse during parts of Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers. His spiky … 90s inspired? … look was met with some major curiosity. And comparisons.
A collection of our favorite Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball photos from 1941-2012 includes a national championship and a Final Four run.
Photo package of Greg Gard.
While striving to make it back to the Olympics for a second time, University of Wisconsin-Madison swimmer Phoebe Bacon is making sure she prioritizes her love for swimming leading up to her return to the Olympic Trials stage.
There’s a consensus who the closest University of Wisconsin women’s basketball teammates are away from the court: Ronnie Porter and Serah Williams.
It’s not a bad way to start a career.
Former Wisconsin Badgers star linebacker Leo Chenal is now 2-for-2 in Super Bowl-title seasons, winning another ring with the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night in the 25-22 victory over San Francisco.
There are a few layers to what could trouble the athletic director of a Division I program, and Chris McIntosh listed them to the Wisconsin Board of Regents on Thursday.
Kamari McGee remembers being caught off guard: Lamb chops? For breakfast? McGee didn’t even know what those were.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents authorized a reconstruction project for the Camp Randall Sports Center Thursday which would turn the former workout facility into an indoor football training center.
A new sports facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one step closer to breaking ground after the Capital Planning and Budget Committee of the UW Board of Regents approved the plans in a unanimous vote.
Wisconsin sophomore Serah Williams is one of 15 players in the nation named to the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Watch List, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Wednesday.
Why haven’t the Badgers already passed 100 seasons? Put some of the blame on the Great Depression and slushy ice that sometimes forced the team to practice on roller skates in the Red Gym.
A sea of red, white and black snaked around the Kohl Center and slithered its way down to W. Dayton Street early Sunday morning.
Badger fans bundled up and set up tents outside of the Kohl Center ahead of the Wisconsin versus Purdue matchup.
Over a day of conversations between University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh and Mike Hastings last March in Minnesota, the topic of a rebuilding timeline for the men’s hockey team never rose to the surface.
UW-Madison listed at #20.
With four new programs set to enter the conference in the next academic year, the Big Ten announced plans to expand the conference tournaments — but to 15 teams, excluding the three worst-performing of the 18 programs that will be members of the Big Ten next season.
Luke Fickell received his first contract extension as University of Wisconsin football coach Friday, but — as with other Badgers coaches — it was a formality.
Volleyball’s Kelly Sheffield, women’s soccer’s Paula Wilkins and men’s soccer’s Neil Jones all have five-year agreements that now run through Jan. 31, 2029.
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved contract extensions for four fall sports coaches: Luke Fickell (football), Kelly Sheffield (volleyball), Paula Wilkins (women’s soccer) and Neil Jones (men’s soccer).
Fickell signed a seven-year contract in November 2022. He receives a $100,000 raise and is due to be paid $7.6 million from April 1 of next year through March 31 of 2025.
The event is hosted by former Marquette University basketball greats Steve Novak and Travis Diener, as well as former University of Wisconsin-Madison football player Travis Beckum and current running back Chez Mellusi.
Though the Green Bay Packers were left lamenting a narrow loss to the San Francisco 49ers, perhaps even more so after Detroit suffered an even greater heartbreak in an NFC championship-game loss, there are several Wisconsin connections heading to Super Bowl LVIII in two weeks.
When the school’s annual financial report to the NCAA for the same time period came out this month, the total expenses line was much higher — in excess of $194 million.
Joslyn Boyer, a fifth year senior, says she was diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age, but there weren’t a lot of resources. “Thankfully, my parents were huge advocates for me and marched in the principal’s office and said, ‘This is what she has, this is what she needs.’”
Conference: Big TenAverage Annual Athletics Revenue: $130 millionFootball Revenue: $75 millionMen’s Basketball Revenue: $15 millionWomen’s Basketball Revenue: $680,000
Both Darrell Bevell and Joe Rudolph played important roles on the University of Wisconsin football team’s offense during it’s 1993 season, which culminated in the Badgers’ first Rose Bowl win.
