Coming off the team's first bye week since the winter break in December, the Wisconsin men's hockey team (7-13-2 WCHA, 12-14-2 overall) will host No. 10 Denver in their final home series of the regular season.
Both the Wisconsin men and women's basketball squads couldn't hang with Michigan State on Thursday night. The Kohl Center hosted the women's edition of the budding Big Ten rivalry, and the Spartans left Madison with an easy 62-46 victory over the Badgers.
The No. 1 Wisconsin women's hockey team (22-2-2-1 WCHA, 28-2-2 overall) will host Ohio State (12-13-1, 15-13-4) this weekend in its final regular season series.
In late January, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-8 Big Ten, 8-16 overall) pulled off a string of quality conference wins against Northwestern, Minnesota and Michigan to pull itself right into the middle of the Big Ten standings.
The past few weekends haven't gone as planned for the Wisconsin men's hockey team (7-13-2 WCHA, 12-14-2 overall). The Badgers have dropped four straight games and as a result, find themselves well outside their goal of securing home ice advantage for the WCHA playoffs.
When the No. 15/17 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (8-4 Big Ten, 19-6 overall) takes on Penn State (3-10, 11-15) Sunday the athletic department will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 Badgers team.
In its final road series of the regular season, the No. 1 Wisconsin women's hockey team (22-2-2-1 WCHA, 28-2-2 overall) swept St. Cloud State (4-22, 5-25-2). The Badgers clinched at least a share of the WCHA regular season championship with the six points they earned over the weekend.
The Wisconsin men's hockey program has a history of being the launch pad for some of the most talented forwards in the NHL, but a run of elite offensive defensemen may be changing their reputation.
The No. 21/22 Wisconsin men's basketball team (8-4 Big Ten, 19-6 overall) rebounded from its most recent loss against Ohio State, albeit not easily, as it defeated Minnesota (5-7, 17-8) in the 190th meeting of the Border Battle Thursday night, 68-61 in overtime. This was the Badgers' first win at The Barn since 2008.
With the regular season coming to a close, the Wisconsin women's hockey team (20-2-2 WCHA, 26-2-2 overall) knows its weekend series against St. Cloud State 4-20-0, 5-23-2) will be the last time it has a guaranteed a road game. After this weekend, if the Badgers are to play away from home they will need to earn their tickets to Duluth, Minn., for two weekends: the WCHA Final Face-Off and the NCAA Frozen Four.
Three days after setting the school record for the most three-pointers made in a game, the Wisconsin women's basketball team couldn't get anything to fall from behind the three-point line. The Badgers shot 1-for-12 from three-point range in a 69-54 road loss to No. 18 Penn State (9-3 Big Ten, 19-5 overall) Thursday night.
The No. 21/22 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (7-4 Big Ten, 18-6 overall) looks to rebound off its streak-snapping loss to first place Ohio State Thursday night when it travels to The Barn in Minneapolis to play the border rival Golden Gophers (5-6, 17-7).
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-7 Big Ten, 8-15 overall) hopes to end its two-game losing streak against No. 18/21 Penn State (8-3,18-5), which stands in fourth place in the Big Ten standings.
As head coach of the No. 21/22 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (7-4 Big Ten, 18-6) Bo Ryan is all about improvement. That’s why before the Badgers battled Penn State to a hard fought 52-46 conference victory, Ryan handed his players an article by Pulitzer prize winning columnist and author Thomas Friedman about the pitfalls of not having a college degree as a worker in the 21st century.
Ohio State senior guard Samantha Prahalis scored a career-high 34 points to lead the Buckeyes to a 72-58 victory over the Wisconsin women’s basketball team Monday night at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
The Wisconsin men’s hockey team (12-14-2, 7-13-2 WCHA) had a chance to grab four crucial points and make a leap forward in the WCHA standings, but the Badgers fell flat this weekend and were swept at the hands of conference foe St. Cloud State (12-14-4, 9-10-3).
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (4-6 Big Ten, 8-14 overall) looks to avenge last Thursday’s overtime loss against Iowa and begin a new winning streak against No. 11 Ohio State (7-2, 20-2) Monday in Columbus, Ohio.
The WCHA playoffs may not begin until March 9, but for the Wisconsin Men's Hockey team (7-11-2 WCHA, 12-12-2 overall), they may as well start Friday night. With a dwindling amount of regular season games left to play, the Badgers have to take advantage of every opportunity left to give themselves a shot at home ice advantage for their postseason run.
Over the past two weeks, the Wisconsin women's basketball team has shown that it can hang with any Big Ten team for 40 minutes, home or away. But against Iowa at the Kohl Center Thursday, it was the overtime period that did the Badgers in.
Months before Urban Meyer was officially hired as Ohio State's football coach, rumors swirled about his arrival in Columbus. Nearly immediately upon accepting the Buckeyes' offer, the school had a waiver that allowed Meyer to recruit and build a new staff while interim head coach Luke Fickell prepared the 2011 OSU squad (3-5 Big Ten, 6-7 overall) for the Gator Bowl.
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