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.
Along with being named an All-American in 2021 and 2022, Barnett finished with a 106-41 career record. He also is one of only nine Badgers wrestlers at 118, 126 or 125 pounds to finish fourth or higher at the NCAAs.
Phoebe Bacon is a national champion once again. The University of Wisconsin senior on Saturday won her second career NCAA title in the 200-yard backstroke at the national swimming and diving meet in Athens, Georgia.
A 1-0 loss to the Buckeyes was a cruel way for the Badgers to have to pack things for the season and fly home Sunday night. But turnabout was fair play: Ohio State had to do the same a year earlier, wondering about all the things that could have been different in a one-game championship decided by one goal.
Echo Tap and Grill in Madison saw a sea of Badger supporters on Sunday, all united in cheering for the Wisconsin Women’s Hockey team. “I come here often, and I never have a bad experience at all; everyone is super friendly,” said Logan Peirick, a patron at the bar watching the game. “It’s all about the camaraderie.”
Get your brackets ready. Four Wisconsin teams are headed to college basketball’s ultimate arena, the NCAA Tournament.
The Marquette and Wisconsin Badgers men’s teams and the Marquette and UW-Green Bay women’s teams are each vying to win it all.
The yearly tradition started with the work of three students at UW who were looking to raise money for the Badgers’ athletic teams at the time. In 1982, Tom Grantham, Ken Sparks and Rich Backus approached Elroy Hirsch, who was the current Athletic Director, the website home page said.
Samuel Lateju stepped off the plane for his Junior Day visit with the Wisconsin football program and immediately could see he was in Badger Country.
The UW logos and merchandise inside the terminal at the Dane County Airport seemed everywhere. People wore Badgers gear.
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.
