Two renovation projects at Camp Randall Stadium have entered the final push now that the University of Wisconsin’s spring commencement is in the rearview mirror.
Cameron Huss capped an exceptional four-year University of Wisconsin golf career with his first trip to the NCAA Division 1 National Championship, but the senior fell just short of reaching Monday’s final round in Carlsbad, California.
Five University of Wisconsin track and field athletes earned spots in the NCAA Outdoor Championships next week in Eugene, Oregon, after turning in impressive showings under tough conditions at the West First Round last week in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The Badgers will play Butler next season in a neutral-site game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, according to Jon Rothstein of College Hoops Today, at an unknown date and time.
Former University of Wisconsin and NFL fullback Derek Watt will be the featured speaker at the Milwaukee High School Sports Awards show, presented by Festival Foods. The live show is at 7 p.m. Friday, June 14 at the Riverside Theater.
Ross Kopfer knows all about facing head on life’s unforeseen obstacles. Decades before he would have to fight for his life in the wake of a tragic car crash, he was forced to make a “leap-of-faith” decision on his life’s trajectory before his final year of college.
The five members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coaching staff will earn more than $5 million in combined salary in the 2024-25 season.
At the NCAA Regional Tournament in West Lafayette, Indiana last week, Huss carded a 211 over three rounds (66-74-74), the best 54-hole score by a Badger in the tourney since 1991.
Michigan took first place and their second consecutive title while Wisconsin finished sixth in the championship.
The Badgers are welcoming seven other Big Ten crews to Wisconsin this weekend for the conference regatta. It’s the fourth time the state has held the event and the second time for Devil’s Lake State Park in Baraboo as the body of water chosen for racing.
The return of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and men’s hockey teams to the NCAA Tournament in 2024 meant higher bonus payouts for the athletic department.
The collective, launched in the second half of 2022 to facilitate name, image and likeness deals for Badgers players, released its first tax filing Thursday. It showed nearly $3.5 million in contributions and more than $1.7 million in payments to athletes.
The Badgers on Wednesday hired Lance Randall as an assistant coach. Randall rounds out the Badgers coaching staff, joining Joe Krabbenhoft, Sharif Chambliss and Kirk Penney.
Kirk Penney, Wisconsin’s special assistant to the head coach, will be inducted to the FIBA Hall of Fame’s class of 2024 during a September ceremony in Singapore.
When Wisconsin hosts Alabama on Sept. 14, the premier college football matchup will be televised on FOX as part of the network’s Big Noon kickoff.
Meghan Duggan took the call earlier this year and couldn’t believe her ears. The University of Wisconsin was inviting the former Badgers hockey star back to campus to deliver the keynote address at the spring graduation.
“I thought to myself, ‘Really? Me?’” she said.
Meghan Duggan is the Commencement Speaker for Wisconsin’s 2024 Graduation Ceremony, an opportunity the Gold Medalist couldn’t have fathomed when she graduated from UW-Madison in 2011.
Some of the memories that Meghan Duggan carries from her University of Wisconsin commencement ceremony are vivid more than 12 years later.
Duggan, a three-time national champion with the Wisconsin women’s hockey team, remembers sitting in the rows of chairs on the Kohl Center floor in the December 2011 ceremony next to her teammate and one of her best friends, Kelly Nash.
The University of Wisconsin softball team had its impressive run at the Big Ten Conference Tournament cut just short of a championship-game berth.
University of Wisconsin runner Adam Spencer came up just short of winning the Big Ten title in the 800 meters last season, finishing second in the event as a sophomore, but he wouldn’t be denied the top spot Sunday at the conference’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Wisconsin hockey legend and three-time Olympic medalist Meghan Duggan returns to the big stage in Madison as the upcoming keynote speaker for the 2024 Spring Commencement. The 2011 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Winner joked how “surreal” it is being invited to address over 6,200 undergrads and their families at Camp Randall.
For Victoria Heiligenthal, Madison Mooney and Alexa Westley — not to mention the teammates who’ve already reached this point and for those teammates whose time with the Badgers isn’t quite done — there’s a bond that can never be broken.
Kirk Penney is getting a sizeable pay raise for his second season on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coaching staff.
The Badgers will play all four conference newcomers just once, as they will travel to Washington and Oregon while hosting Southern Cal and UCLA at the Kohl Center the Big Ten announced Tuesday.
Dr. Sterling Johnson, a study author who leads the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention at the University of Wisconsin, said it would be very important for clinical trials to start to take participants’ APOE4 status into account.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard used to have more time. But ahead of his cancer foundation Garding Against Cancer’s signature event Friday, he still needed to run back to his office and print out the night’s script so he could present in his bright blue suit — “The future is bright” is the theme — and, for just a while, escape from the transfer portal.
Good Karma Brands won the rights to Badgers volleyball games and will air them on 100.5 FM in Madison and 620 AM in Milwaukee.
The Badgers’ Dec. 10 game against Clark and Iowa had 12,142 tickets scanned, by far the highest since Wisconsin started using digital scanners at gates in 2006.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team hosted an NCAA Tournament game for the first time in five years in 2024. As usual, it was among the most attended contests of the season at LaBahn Arena.
Sales for the season totaled more than $1.3 million at Wisconsin basketball and hockey home games.
The Badgers’ success early in Hastings’ first season, however, apparently made a difference in bringing fans back to the Kohl Center. The average number of ticket scans ended at 7,444, the highest figure since 2014-15 and a 58% gain over the previous season.
The 42nd annual Crazylegs Classic, with a 5-mile run and 2-mile walk, is expected to draw more than 9,500 participants to Downtown Madison on Saturday.
Three Wisconsin football players (Joe Tippmann, Keeanu Benton and Nick Herbig) were taken in the 2023 NFL draft, marking the seventh straight year that three or more Badgers were selected in the annual event.
And Wednesday, Gard seemed calm amid the seeming firestorm, acknowledging there being no shortage of short-term options into the transfer portal while also emphasizing heavily into a long-term vision of how the Badgers can adapt to a new world dominated by big money.
Work to replace the Camp Randall Sports Center — more commonly known as the Shell — and the McClain Center is scheduled to begin later this year. Wisconsin officials are planning to give an informational presentation about the project to the Joint Campus Area Committee on Thursday.
Jack Bicknell Jr. was the team’s offensive line coach last season but was reassigned in the program following the bowl-game loss to LSU. But Bicknell’s new role as the program’s executive director of football operations has already ended, according to a separation agreement turned over to BadgerExtra.
Badgers home games averaged 11,705 tickets scanned, a 15% increase over 2022-23. The average, however, ranked 15th out of 17 available seasons of data, ahead of only 2021-22 (11,335) and 2022-23 (10,205).
Teams from all over the county gathered at the Bakke Recreation Center for the NIRSA National Basketball Championship. Whether they were on or off the court, everyone came together for something special.
The University of Wisconsin athletic board provided no surprises Friday in dealing with UW’s winter sports coaches.
Men’s basketball coach Greg Gard received the standard one-year rollover, which re-establishes his contract at five years.
Greg Gard (men’s basketball), Marisa Moseley (women’s basketball), Mike Hastings (men’s hockey), Mark Johnson (women’s hockey), Chris Bono (wrestling) and Yuri Suguiyama (men’s and women’s swimming and diving) have five-year contracts that now run through the 2028-29 season.
The Athletic Board on Friday unanimously approved a recommendation for a budget that includes $170.942 million in expenses and $170.952 million in revenue. Both were the highest ever presented to the board, and the expenses line was 63% higher than the budget from 10 years earlier.
The timing of Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s yearly appearance in front of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board left the intersection of the transfer portal and name, image and likeness deals as a central theme.
Kelly Sheffield, like seemingly most everybody else in the country, watched the Caitlin Clark phenomenon and the accompanying booming interest in college women’s basketball with great interest.
A reflection on the personal goals that Laila Edwards took into her first World Championship reveals a simplicity that’s striking when compared to the reality that she lived.
Hailey Baumann is coming off of a strong freshman season with the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team, but she knows she’ll have her work cut out for her when she takes the pitch with the nation’s top players in her age group starting Sunday in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Kyle Blackbourn, the Badgers’ director of recruiting and scouting, announced Wednesday morning that he has been named the head coach of the Rockhurst University men’s basketball team, a Division II program in Kansas City, Missouri.
Former Badger football and basketball players participated in a skills academy before a game. Travis Beckum, Marquis Mason, Taylor Mehlhaff, Brett Valentine, Zach Morley, Mike Wilkinson were just some of the many familiar names and faces back in Madison for the cause.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face at least six teams that were in last season’s NCAA Tournament during this season’s nonconference portion of the schedule.
The University of Wisconsin football team will host Marshall to kick off the 2028 season.
High expectations, growing commitments can lead to mental health challenges among student-athletes, but solutions available.
University of Wisconsin volleyball coaches got rewarded for another trip to the Final Four with bonuses totaling more than $115,000.
Bo Ryan is officially a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer. Ryan, 76, on Saturday was named to the Hall of Fame, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was also a Hall of Fame finalist in 2023, but didn’t make the cut despite an impressive resume. Ryan in 2017 was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
Bo Ryan always said he would have been content coaching junior high school basketball for 40 years in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, not far from where he grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Badgers assistant coach Dean Oliver will not return to the Badgers bench for an eighth season, he announced on Twitter Wednesday evening. A source close to the men’s basketball program told BadgerExtra that Oliver’s contract was not being renewed.
A former construction worker at Camp Randall Stadium settled for $22 million from a general contractor after burning over 70% of his body in an explosion in 2022, according to the man’s attorney.
Letter to the editor: The Wisconsin women’s basketball team was fantastic Thursday night in their first postseason game in 13 years, but where were the Wisconsin cheerleaders?
The Badgers were close but not quite close enough. That’s the way the game went Friday and the way the season went down the stretch; they went 7-8-2 after a 10-game winning streak that covered parts of November, December and January.
The billboards took over Minneapolis — featuring slogans for women’s hockey that say “Nobody Does it Better 7x NCAA Champions” and for women’s basketball “Twin Cities Badgers Who’s Next.” As other Big Ten teams were arriving they were seeing these billboards showcase the Badgers and the pride UW has.
The program announced Tuesday that the Badgers will take on the University of California in a home-and-home series in 2029 and 2030. Wisconsin will head to Berkley to face the Golden Bears on Sept. 1, 2029, and Cal will play at Camp Randall Stadium on Aug. 31, 2030. These dates were originally set for matchups against UCLA, but those games were nixed after the Bruins joined the Big Ten.
University of Wisconsin women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson has always been inquisitive about what goes into winning, what goes into building and sustaining a championship culture.
