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Two former Badgers selected in XFL Draft

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Garret Dooley

After a one-year run back in 2001, the XFL is back for another go-around and two former Wisconsin Badgers were selected in their draft process.

The league will feature eight teams, based in Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, New York, Tampa Bay, Washington and St. Louis.

The first Wisconsin player to get selected was former defensive tackle Olive Sagapolu, selected in the fifth round by the Houston Roughnecks.  Sagapolu played nose tackle for the Badgers from 2015-2018.

Sagapolu went undrafted by the NFL but spent some time in the Green Bay Packers training camp.

Linebacker Garret Dooley was the final pick of the open phase portion of the draft, taken by the St. Louis Battlehawks.

Dooley played at Wisconsin from 2015-2017.  He later spent some time with the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions during training camp and the 2018 season.  Now he’ll try to work his way back into the NFL via the XFL.

The XFL season kicks off February 8, 2020, a week after the Super Bowl.

 

Caufield named Big Ten’s second star

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Wisconsin freshman forward Cole Caufield (Stevens Point, Wis.) was named the Big Ten Conference’s second star after debuting with a five-point weekend.

Caufield led the Badgers with four goals and five points, becoming the first player in the modern era of Wisconsin hockey to record consecutive multi-goal games to start his career.

Caufield scored the Badgers first goal of the season and later added a second at Boston College on Friday.  He added two goals and one assist in a victory at Merrimack on Saturday, including a goal six seconds into the third period, one second shy of the school record for fastest goal to start a period.

Caufield and the Badgers skate on home ice for the first time this season this weekend.  They’ll host a pair of games against defending NCAA Champion Minnesota-Duluth on Friday and Saturday.

Wisconsin sweeps Minnesota, sits along atop the Big Ten

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Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield

With the top spot in the Big Ten Conference on the line, number seven Wisconsin swept number six Minnesota in a battle for the top spot in the league on Sunday.

The Badgers swept the Gophers, 25-18, 25-15, 25-20, to earn its third straight sweep, its third win over a top-10 team in its last four matches, and its first Border Battle win since 2014 – also when it won its last Big Ten Championship.

The Badgers held Minnesota to a .188 hitting percentage (31 kills – 12 errors – 101 attempts).  Senior libero Tiffany Clark totaled a match-high 14 digs, and Madison Duello and Danielle Hart finished with three blocks each, holding down the front line.

Offensively, junior Dana Rettke finished with a match-high 16 kills, hitting an even .500 (16-2-28) on the day.  Molly Haggerty added 12 kills for the Badgers. [Read more…]

Badgers blank Michigan State for 4th shutout of the season

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The Michigan State Spartans tried to close the door on Wisconsin’s Heisman Trophy candidate Jonathan Taylor on Saturday.  While they held him to a season-low 80 yards on 26 carries, the Badgers found other ways to pull out a 38-0 victory at Camp Randall Stadium.  Taylor did score two rushing touchdowns, and continues to lead the nation in scoring.  He has 14 rushing touchdowns and eight receiving touchdowns on the season.

It’s also the 13th time in his career, that Taylor has rushed for multiple touchdowns in a game.

The Badgers did rush for 222 yards for the game.  Wide receiver Kendric Pryor scored on a 66-yard run.  Kakia Watson added 34 yards and Aron Cruickshank added 28.

Badger quarterback Jack Coan completed 18 of 21 for 180 yards and a touchdown and the Badgers defense did the rest, pulling out their 6th straight win to start the season.  Coan completed passes to eight difference receivers, with tight end Jake Ferguson and wide out Danny Davis leading the way with four catches each. [Read more…]

Hockey Badgers picked to finish third in the Big Ten

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Penn State was tabbed the favorite in the 2019-20 Big Ten hockey preseason coaches’ poll.

Last season, Penn State made their second Big Ten Tournament championship game appearance in three years.  The Nittany Lions completed the year leading the nation in almost every offensive category, setting team records for goals (177), assists (301), points (478) and goals per game (4.54).  Penn State either broke or tied 37 team, individual, career, single-season or single-game records throughout the course of the 2018-19 season and return 20 letter-winners this year.

Notre Dame was selected second in the preseason poll, with the Wisconsin Badgers picked to finish third.

Two Badgers found their way on the Preseason All-Big Ten Hockey First Team.  Defensemen Wyatt Kalynuk and K’Andre Miller are part of the six-player first team.

Wisconsin freshman Cole Caufield was voted to All-Big Ten Honorable Mention.

 

Badger men’s basketball picked sixth in Big Ten preseason poll

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D’Mitrik Trice File Photo – by David Stluka

The University of Wisconsin has been picked to finish sixth in a poll of Big Ten media members released on Monday.

The Badgers were picked to finish sixth last season as well but finished fourth.

This season, the Badgers will be tasked with replacing Big Ten first team selection Ethan Happ, as well as forwards Khalil Iverson and Charlie Thomas.

The Badgers do return six of their top eight scorers from last season, led by guard D’Mitrik Trice (11.6 ppg) and Brad Davison (10.5).

Michigan State was picked to finish first by the Big Ten media, followed by Marland, Ohio State, Purdue and number-five Michigan.  Following Wisconsin at number six is Illinois, Iowa, Penn Sate, Indiana, Minnesota, Rutgers, Nebraska and Northwestern.

Michigan State’s Cassius Winston is the preseason Player of the Year and Ohio State’s D.J. Carton was voted as the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.

The five member All-Big Ten first team follows:

Cassius Winston – Michigan State
Lamar Stevens – Penn State
Ayo Dosunmu – Illinois
Anthony Cowan – Maryland
Kaleb Wesson – Ohio State

Wisconsin’s Orr named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week

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Chris Orr (Photo by David Stluka).

Wisconsin senior linebacker Chris Orr was named the Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.

Orr recorded nine tackles (5 solo), two sacks and a forced fumble in the Badgers 24-15 win over the Northwestern Wildcats at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday.

Orr anchored a defense that allowed just 255 yards, recorded 14 tackles for loss, 5 sacks and two defensive touchdowns.

This is Orr’s first career Defensive Player of the Week honor.

 

Badger defense saves the day against Northwestern

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Zach Baun

The Wisconsin Badgers scored a touchdown on their opening drive for the fourth straight game, then saw their offense disappear for the remainder of the game.  Yet UW, thanks to their defense, pulled out a 24-15 win over the Northwestern Wildcats to improve to 4-0 on the season and 2-0 in the Big Ten.

The offense went 54-yards on 10-plays to go up 7-0.  Over the next 12 possessions, the Badgers managed one field goal.

The Northwestern defense made Jonathan Taylor work for everything.  He finished with 119 yards on 26 carries with the games opening touchdown.  It’s just the first 100-yard rushing day for Taylor against the Wildcats in three tries.  He has now going over 100 yards 26 times in 31 games.  Taylor also moved into fourth place on the Badgers career rushing list with 4,730 yards, moving past Anthony Davis (4,676).

The Wildcats spent much of the game in a zone defense, making life difficult on Badger quarterback Jack Coan. [Read more…]

Wisconsin’s Taylor named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week

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Jonathan Taylor

Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor rushed 23 times for 203 yards and a pair of touchdowns, topping the 100-yard rushing mark for the 25th time in his 30-game career, was named the Big Ten’s Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season and the sixth time in his career.

Taylor became the first Wisconsin player in history to rush for at least 200 yards against Michigan.

Taylor scored his ninth overall touchdown of the season on a 1-year run to open the scoring in the first quarter, carrying eight times for 51 yards on the game-opening drive.

Only Ron Dayne (33) and Montee Ball (26) have more 100-yard games as Badgers.

Michigan State senior linebacker Joe Bachie was named the Defensive Player of the Week.

Illinois punter Blake Hayes was named the Special Teams Player of the Week and Nebraska wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week.

 

Badgers climb in top 25 polls

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Paul Chryst

After blowing out then, 10th ranked Michigan 35-14 on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium, the Wisconsin Badgers cracked the top 10 in both Top 25 polls.

The Badgers (3-0, 1-0 BIG) moved up five spots in the A.P. Top 25 from 13 to 8.  They also moved up five spots from 14 to 9 in the Amway Coaches Poll.

The Wolverines (2-1, 0-1) dropped all the way from 11 to 20 in the A.P. Poll and from 10 to 20 in the Coaches Poll.

Ohio State climbed from sixth to fifth in the A.P. Poll and remained at number-six in the Coaches Poll.

Penn State moved from 13 to 12 in the A.P. Poll and from 12 to 11 in the Coaches Poll.

Iowa climbed from 18 to 14 in both Top 25 Polls, while Michigan State moved into the Top 25 A.P. Poll at number-25.

The Badgers will host Northwestern (1-2, 0-1) at 11 a.m. Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.  The Wildcats beat UW 31-17 last season on the way to a Big Ten West Division title.