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Taylor is headed for the track

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Jonathan Taylor

The Wisconsin football team is wrapping up spring football workouts this week, but running back Jonathan Taylor ended things a week early.

Taylor started practicing with the Wisconsin men’s track team this week.  He plans to make his debut in the 400-meter relay at the Penn Relays Thursday through Saturday.

Taylor is also scheduled to run at UW’s Alumni Classic on May 3 and then at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships May 10-12 in Iowa City.

Besides football, Taylor was also a track star in high school in New Jersey.

Strickland lands at Temple

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Tai Strickland

Former Wisconsin point guard Tai Strickland is transferring from the school to play his college basketball at Temple.

Strickland played one season in Madison and announced in March that he was leaving after averaging just 1.8 points in the 16 games he played in this past season.

Strickland is the son of former NBA player Rod Strickland and originally picked Wisconsin over Big Ten foes Minnesota and Rutgers.

Strickland will have three seasons of eligibility at Temple after sitting out next season in accordance with NCAA rules.

Wisconsin reportedly enters bids to host NCAA Hockey Regionals

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Kohl Center

The University of Wisconsin last played host to a NCAA men’s hockey regional at the Kohl Center in 2008.  The fact that the Kohl Center isn’t a neutral site and is closer to an Olympic size rink, than the preferred NHL-size rink has kept them from hosting again.

However, a lack of bids from teams in the West has allowed for Wisconsin to throw their hat in the ring again.

According to a Wisconsin State Journal story, first reported by hockey writer Todd Milewski, UW has entered bids to host regionals in 2021 and 2022.  The host sites for the 2020 and 2021 events are expected to be announced by the NCAA this week.

In 2008, the Kohl Center drew 9,968 and 9,816 fans for the two days of the tournament.  In the 11 years since, only Minnesota (10,974) drew more fans at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, with a trip to the 2012 Frozen Four on the line.

Badgers learn breakdown of 2019-20 Big Ten schedule

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The Big Ten Conference revealed a breakdown of all 14 schools’ opponents for the 2019-20 Big Ten men’s basketball season on Wednesday.  Conference teams will compete in a 20-game conference schedule, playing seven teams both home and away and six teams once (three home and  three away).

The Wisconsin Badgers will play home games only against Illinois, Maryland and Northwestern and road games only against Iowa, Michigan and Penn State.

The Badgers will play home and away against Indiana, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Purdue and Rutgers.

The season concludes with the 23rd annual Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament (March 11-15) which returns to Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis for the first time since 2016.

U.S. wins Women’s World Championship

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Annie Pankowski (Photo by David Stluka).

The United States beat Finland 2-1 in a shootout, winning their fifth straight gold medal at the Women’s World Championship on Sunday.

The win came after a questionable goaltender interference review wiped out what would have been an overtime goal for the Finns.  Officials spent more than 10 minutes reviewing the play before disallowing the goal for goalie interference.

The U.S. went on to kill off two Finland power plays to get to a shootout.

Amanda Kessel and Wisconsin standout Annie Pankowski scored in the shootout to win it for the Americans.  Former Badger star goaltender Alex Rigsby stopped four of five shots in the shootout to preserve the win for the Americans.

Pankowski scored the Americans’ only goal in regulation in the second period.

Virginia claims first National Championship (AUDIO)

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Tony and Dick Bennett embrace after Virginia wins National Title.

After falling to 16-seed Maryland-Baltimore County in the opening round of last years NCAA Tournament, Tony Bennett and his Virginia Cavaliers came full circle, knocking off Texas Tech 85-77 in overtime.

Bennett and his Cavaliers were the laughing-stock of the college basketball world a year ago, but they used it as a lesson and worked even harder, winning the schools first ever championship.

Bennett handled the loss with grace a year ago and he handled the championship win with grace last night.  And he’s more thankful than ever.

“I’m thankful in a way for what happened because it did, it drew me closer, most importantly, to my faith in the Lord, drew me closer to my wife and children, just because you realize what’s unconditional,” Bennett said.  “In those spots when the world’s telling you you’re a failure, you’re a loser, and you’re the [Read more…]

Wilson gives Seahawks a deadline

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Russell Wilson

Former Wisconsin and current Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson has given the franchise a deadline of April 15 to have a new contract completed.

Wilson will be entering the final year of a four-year, $87.6 million deal that he signed during the 2015 offseason.  He’s set to make $17 million in base salary in 2019, the final year of his current deal.

The Seahawks start phase one of their offseason workout program on April 15 and the Seattle Times reports that Wilson would like to have a contract extension done by then.

The two sides are reportedly in discussion.

Wilson completed 65.6 percent of his passes for 3,448 yards, 35 touchdowns and a 110.9 quarterback rating.  His seven interceptions tied his career low.

Happ, Howard named All-American

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Ethan Happ

The state of Wisconsin has two All-American college basketball players in the same season for the first time ever.

Wisconsin senior Ethan Happ and Marquette junior Markus Howard were both named to the All-American second team by the Associated Press on Tuesday.

Happ, who was also a AP third-team All-American in 2017, is the first two-time AP All-American in Wisconsin.

Averaging 17.3 points, 10.1 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, Happ was the nation’s only player to average at least 16.0 ppg, 10.0 rpg and 4.0 apg.  In fact, in the last 20 years, the NCAA’s only other player [Read more…]

Cephus leaves UW

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Quintez Cephus

Wide receiver Quintez Cephus is scheduled to stand trial on sexual assault charges in July.  After his name was not listed on the Wisconsin Badgers spring roster, it was revealed that Cephus is no longer enrolled at the school.

Cephus was suspended from the team last fall after he was charged with two counts of sexual assault.

Cephus had developed into the Badgers top receiver and was expected to lead that group in 2018.  But he left the team on August 18, anticipating charges of sexual assault.  Those charges cam two days later.

 

UW’s Chryst lands a pay raise

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Paul Chryst

The University of Wisconsin restructured head football coach Paul Chryst’s contract recently, but he still remains in the bottom half of the Big Ten in football coaching salaries.

Chryst 5-year deal gives him a $300,000 annual increase, but he’ll enter the 2019 season no better than ninth among the 14 Big Ten head coaches.  Chryst is set to earn $4.15 million this coming season.

Chryst’s base salary is $400,000.  The remaining $3.75 million comes from the UW Foundation.

The Badgers finished 5-4 in the Big Ten last season and 8-5 overall.  In Chryst’s first three seasons saw the Badgers go 10-3, 11-3 and 13-1.

With Ohio State’s Urban Meyer retiring, Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh becomes the Big Ten’s highest paid coach.  Harbaugh earned $7.5 million last season.  Nebraska’s Scott Frost and Illinois’ Lovie Smith both earned $5 million.

Purdue’s Jeff Brohm earned $3.8 million last season, but after being courted by Louisville, Brohm got a new deal with the Boilermakers that could be worth up to $6 million a year.