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Top ranked Badger women edge Ohio State in series opener

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The top-ranked Wisconsin Badger women’s hockey team scored a pair of third period goals to knock off number-4 Ohio State, 2-1, on Friday afternoon at LaBahn Arena.

Senior Daryl Watts and junior Nicole LaMantia scored at 9:29 and 13:39 in the final period to give the Badgers (4-1-0  4-1-0-0 WCHA) their first home win of the season.

Neither team was able to dent the scoreboard in the first period.  Ohio State (4-3-0, 4-3-0-0 WCHA) finally found the net in the second period on a Paetyn Levis tally.

Wisconsin’s Kennedy Blair, the reigning WCHA Goaltender of the Week, stopped 28 of the 29 shots she faced to earn her fourth win as a Badger.

UW remains perfect on the penalty kill this year, killing all 11 of its penalties.

The Badgers wrap up the series with Ohio State on Saturday with a none game at LaBahn Arena.

Badgers hold off Indiana in double overtime (AUDIO)

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File Photo – D’Mitrik Trice(Photo by David Stluka)

Tyler Wahl made back-to-back threes in double-overtime to help 8th ranked Wisconsin hold off the Indiana Hoosiers 80-73 on Thursday night at the Kohl Center.  Wahl finished with a career high 12 points for the Badgers (10-2, 4-1 Big Ten).

Senior point guard D’Mitrik Trice had 21 points and seven assists to lead the Badgers.  Eleven of his 21 came in the final 1:03 and the two overtimes.  Nate Reuvers added 14 points and Micah Potter had 10 as Wisconsin won for the seventh time in the last eight games.

Wahl had been 2 of 9 on 3-point field goal attempts before Thursday as the Badgers extended their Kohl Center winning streak against the Hoosiers to 18 games.

Badger freshman guard Jonathan Davis had six points but matched his career high with eight rebounds and a career-best three steals while playing a career-high 41 minutes.

Indiana (7-5, 2-3) was led by Trayce Jackson-Davis, who scored 23 points on 10-of-16 shooting.  Jackson-Davis had 16 points in the second half, but just one point in the two overtimes.  He came into the game averaging 20.3 points a game [Read more…]

Fox Sports Wisconsin to carry 12 more Wisconsin men’s hockey games

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After over five weeks off, the No. 12/14 Wisconsin men’s hockey team is set to return to the ice this weekend in a Border Battle clash against No. 1 Minnesota as the second half of the season gets underway.

Like the first half of the season, all of UW’s home contests will air live on television from LaBahn Arena.

Fox Sports Wisconsin or Fox Sports Wisconsin PLUS is scheduled to air all 10 Badger home games.  Fox Sports Wisconsin PLUS will also carry the Badgers games at Minnesota on Feb. 5-6.

This weekend’s games with the Gophers are set to air at 4 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.

Fox Sports Wisconsin TV schedule

Saturday, Jan.   9    Minnesota       4 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin
Sunday, Jan.    10   Minnesota       4 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin
Friday, Jan. 15        Arizona State   7 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin PLUS
Saturday, Jan. 16   Arizona State    7 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin
Friday, Jan. 29       Michigan St.      7 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin PLUS
Saturday, Jan. 30   Michigan St.      3 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin
Friday, Feb.   5       at Minnesota    7 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin PLUS
Saturday, Feb.  6   at Minnesota     7 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin PLUS
Friday, Feb. 19      Notre Dame      7 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin PLUS
Saturday, Feb. 20  Notre Dame      4 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin
Friday, Feb. 26      Ohio State         7 p.m.      Fox Sports Wisconsin
Saturday, Feb. 27  Ohio State         TBA         Fox Sports Wisconsin

 

U.S. blanks Canada to win World Junior Championship

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Alex Turcotte – Photo Courtesy of USA Hockey

The U.S. National Junior hockey team knocked off host Canada 2-0 to capture the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton, Alberta on Tuesday night.  It is the fifth gold medal for the United States in the tournament and fifth medal overall in the last six years for the Americans.

Former Wisconsin Badger forward Alex Turcotte’s first-period goal turned out to be the game winner for the U.S.  Turcotte and current Badger Cole Caufield are the 11th and 12th Badgers to win gold medals in the tournament.  Current Badger Dylan Holloway captured a silver medal with the Canadians.

Goaltender Spencer Knight made 34 saves in the shutout for the Americans.  He stopped all 15 shots he faced from the Canadians in the final period.  Trevor Zegras scored the games other goal just :32 into the second period.

Turcotte, Caufield and Holloway return to Madison and will rejoin the Badgers when they return to the ice in the second half of the Big Ten season against top ranked Minnesota at LaBahn Arena this weekend.

Wisconsin Volleyball ranked #1 in AVCA Preseason Poll

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Badger Coach Kelly Sheffield (File Photo) – Courtesy of UW Athletics

The Wisconsin women’s volleyball team drew the number-one ranking in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) preseason poll, released on Tuesday.

The Badgers finished the 2019-20 season as national runner-up and ranked second.

Texas is ranked second and Stanford third in the preseason poll.  The Big Ten has five other schools ranked in the top 25, including Nebraska (5th), Minnesota (7th), Penn State (9th), Purdue (13th) and Michigan (24th).

In-state rival Marquette is ranked 20th in the preseason poll.

The Badgers will open their season against Purdue Jan. 22 & 23 at the UW-Field House.  Start times haven’t been released yet.

 

Coan Leaving Wisconsin for Notre Dame

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Jack Coan

Former Wisconsin Badger starting quarterback Jack Coan has decided to transfer Notre Dame to compete for the starting job in South Bend.  He will have one season of eligibility remaining.

Coan started 18 games for the Badgers in 2018 and 2019 but missed most of last season with a foot injury in preseason training camp that required surgery.  Even when he returned to the sidelines, the Badgers went with Graham Mertz and Chase Wolf at quarterback.

Coan completed 68% of his passes for 3,278 yards with 23 touchdowns and eight interceptions during his time at Wisconsin.  He helped the Badgers win the Big Ten West Division title in 2019.  He completed nearly 70% of his passes and posted the third-highest passing total (2,727 yards) in team history during that season.

Notre Dame has Wisconsin on its schedule next season, a September 25 matchup at Soldier Field in Chicago.

 

Wisconsin Hockey ranked 12th in latest USCHO Poll

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The Minnesota Gophers start the new year ranked number-one in this week’s USCHO.com Division 1 Men’s Hockey Poll.  The Gophers are off to a 9-0 start, earning 39 of 40 first-place votes in this week’s rankings.

The Gophers will travel to Madison, Wisconsin for a pair of Big Ten contests against the rival Wisconsin Badgers (5-5), who are ranked fifth in this week’s poll.

The only other Big Ten team in the top 15 is Michigan.  The Wolverines dropped one spot to ninth.

Boston College is ranked second, followed by North Dakota, Minnesota State and Minnesota-Duluth rounding out the top five.

St. Cloud is number-6, Bowling Green is No. 7, Massachusetts is No. 8 and Clarkson sits tenth.

 

 

Badger Women’s Hockey Sweeps Minnesota State

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Senior co-captain Brette Pettet’s late third period goal gave the No. 1 Wisconsin women’s hockey team a 1-0 win at Minnesota State on Sunday afternoon, giving the Badgers (3-1-0, 3-1-0-0 WCHA) a sweep of the two-game weekend series.

It’s the second goal of the young season for Pettet.

The Mavericks (2-7-1, 2-7-1-0 WCHA) lost for the seventh time this season.

Kennedy Blair stopped all 21 shots to earn her second shutout of the season.  The Badgers held MSU scoreless on all four of their power-play chances Sunday.  UW has now killed all nine of its penalties during the 2020-21 season.

Wisconsin will play its first home games of the 2020-21 season when they welcome Ohio State to LaBahn Arena this Friday and Saturday.

Ferguson, Sanborn, Hicks To Return For UW

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Just days after winning the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, the Badgers found out three key veterans would be returning for their senior seasons at UW.  Redshirt junior tight end Jake Ferguson, junior linebacker Jack Sanborn and redshirt junior cornerback Faion Hicks all announced that they are returning next season.

Ferguson led the Badgers with 30 receptions for 305 yards and four touchdowns.  Sanborn led UW in tackles with 41 1/2 and Hicks had four passes defensed and 10 tackles.

The Badgers will lose a running back after Nakia Watson became the second player to enter the NCAA’s transfer portal.  He joins QB Jack Coan.  Watson started four games and played in five games this season.

The Badgers have three returning tailbacks on their roster, Jalen Berger, Julius Davis and Isaac Guerendo.  They added three more during the early signing period in December.

 

Badgers Come From Behind To Win Duke’s Mayo Bowl

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Paul Chryst

It wasn’t looking good early for the Wisconsin Badgers, who fell behind Wake Forest 14-0 in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl on Wednesday in Charlotte.  The Badgers had two empty possessions, while the Demon Deacons put two scores on the board just 7:39 into the game.

The Badgers (4-3) settled down from there and scored 14 points in each of the next three quarters to go on and beat Wake Forest 42-28.

Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman had thrown just one interception coming into the game, but he threw four picks against the Badgers, who finished the season with a two-game winning streak.  The Badgers got interceptions from Noah Burks, Scott Nelson, Jack Sanborn and Collin Wilder.  Sanborn finished with 10 tackles, two tackles for loss and the pick.

Wisconsin improved to 5-1 in bowl games under coach Paul Chryst.  The 42-points scored is the highest scoring output for the Badgers in a bowl game, surpassing the previous record of 38 against Utah in the 1996 Copper Bowl.

The Badgers improved to 17-15 in bowl games overall and have won 6 of their last 7 bowls, dating back to the 2014 season.

Quarterback Graham Mertz finished 11 of 17 for 130 yards and a touchdown.  He also scored on a pair of 1-yard runs.

Hartman finished 20 of 37 for 318 yards and three touchdowns for Wake Forest (4-5).