by Bill Scott | Feb 25, 2016
The unranked Wisconsin Badgers won for the ninth time in their last ten games, knocking off 8th-ranked Iowa 67-59 at Carver Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday night. Wisconsin became the first team to knock off the Hawkeyes in Iowa City this season and at ten-and-five in the...
by Bill Scott | Feb 22, 2016
After an ugly first half and a shaky start to the second, the Wisconsin Badgers put things together and pulled out a 69-60 win over Illinois, sweeping the two-game season series from the Illini. The Badgers trailed by 13-points in the second half before going on a...
by Bill Scott | Feb 14, 2016
At least for now, the Wisconsin Badgers shouldn’t have to worry about being on Joe Lunardi’s bubble. Junior center Vitto Brown scored a career high 21 points to lead for Badgers in double figures in a 70-57 win over second-ranked Maryland in College Park....
by Bill Scott | Feb 11, 2016
The Nebraska Cornhuskers used a 2-3 zone defense against the Wisconsin, trying to keep the Badgers from dominating the lane. But after a slow start, the Badgers got their outside game going again, hitting 11 of 18 from three-point distance for the game and pulling...
by Bill Scott | Feb 5, 2016
The Wisconsin Badgers ran their win streak to five games on Thursday night, knocking off Ohio State 79-68 at the Kohl Center. The Badgers entered the game shooting 32.0% from three-point range in Big Ten play. Last night, the Badgers hit 13 of 27 (48.1%) to help the...
by Bill Scott | Feb 1, 2016
Wisconsin’s Khalil Iverson entered Sunday night’s game against Illinois with nine points in seven Big Ten games. Against the Illini, Iverson scored 10 points and added five rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block while playing a season-high 30...
by Bill Scott | Jan 22, 2016
Freshman Ethan Happ recorded his seventh double-double of the season, finishing with 20 points and eleven rebounds to help the Wisconsin Badgers knock off the Penn State Nittany Lions 66-60 in Big Ten action in State College, Pennsylvania on Thursday night. The...
by Bill Scott | Jan 18, 2016
The Wisconsin Badgers beat a ranked opponent for the first time under interim head coach Greg Gard, pulling out a 77-76 win over the fourth-ranked Michigan State Spartans at the Kohl Center on Sunday. Junior guard Bronson Koenig hit a three-pointer with 26.8 seconds...
by Bill Scott | Jan 13, 2016
The Wisconsin Badgers saw their Big Ten losing streak reach three straight games, falling to the Northwestern Wildcats 70-65 in Evanston. Nigel Hayes scored 17 points, six rebounds and six assists in the loss as the Badgers dropped to 1-4 in the Big Ten and 9-9...
by Bill Scott | Jan 6, 2016
The Wisconsin Badgers managed to score just 24 points in the second half, hitting just 36% from the field, falling to the Indiana Hoosiers 59-58 at Assembly Hall in Bloomington. Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig had 15 points to lead the Badgers, but both struggled...
by Bill Scott | Dec 10, 2015
After wins over Syracuse and Temple, the Wisconsin Badgers jumped out to an early lead on Milwaukee, but the Panthers came from behind to pull out a 68-67 win at the Kohl Center, ending a 22-game losing streak against Wisconsin. The Panthers won for just the second...
by Bill Scott | Dec 3, 2015
Redshirt freshman Ethan Happ scored 18 points and pulled down 15 rebounds to lead the unranked Wisconsin Badgers to a 66-58 overtime win over 14th ranked Syracuse in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Wisconsin committed a season-high 20 turnovers, but outscored the Orangemen...
by Bill Scott | Nov 30, 2015
7th ranked Oklahoma jumped out to a 26-9 lead and cruised to a 65-48 win over the Wisconsin Badgers in men’s college basketball action on Sunday. Nigel Hayes (20 points, 11 rebounds) hit just 5 of 17 from the field and point guard Bronson Koenig (9 points) was 3...
by Bill Scott | Nov 26, 2015
The Wisconsin Badgers had a difficult time shaking off Prairie View A & M until midway through the second half. The Badgers pulled away for a 85-67 win over the Panthers. Prairie View trailed by just six points at halftime and was within two with 16:30 left in...
by Bill Scott | Nov 23, 2015
Bronson Koenig bounced back from a poor performance on Friday night against Georgetown to lead the Wisconsin Badgers to a much-needed victory. Koenig sliced through traffic in the lane and hit a left-handed layup with six seconds left to give the Badgers a 74-73 win...
by Bill Scott | Nov 21, 2015
Georgetown connected on 9 of 18 from three-point range to pull out their first win of the season, 71-61 over the Wisconsin Badgers in the semifinals of the 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York.. The game was a rematch from last November when Wisconsin came...
by Bill Scott | Nov 16, 2015
Bronson Koenig scored a game high 23-points to lead the Wisconsin Badgers to a 92-65 win over Siena in men’s college basketball action. The win comes two days after the Badgers embarrassing season-opening loss to Western Illinois on Friday night. Wisconsin...
by Bill Scott | Nov 14, 2015
Wisconsin fans celebrated as the 2015 Final Four banner was raised to the rafters of the Kohl Center. The celebration was supposed to continue, but Western Illinois had other ideas. The Leathernecks, who finished last in the Summit League last season, stunned the...
by Bill Scott | Oct 13, 2015
Wisconsin Badgers Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig were named to watch lists for the Julius Erving Award and Bob Cousy Award, respectively. Each watch list contains the top 20 players at its position. The Julius Erving Award recognizes the top small forward in the...
by Bill Scott | Apr 5, 2015
After losing in last years NCAA National semifinals, the Wisconsin Badgers we’re looking for two things this year. They wanted to play for and win a National Championship and hoped to have a chance to return the favor to the Wildcats along the way. One of the...
