by Bill Scott | Mar 11, 2021
The top-ranked Wisconsin women’s volleyball team was supposed to return from a two-week COVID pause with a scheduled two-game Big Ten series against Northwestern at the UW Field House this Friday and Saturday. Now, the Badgers will get another weekend off, this...
by Bill Scott | Feb 7, 2021
The 11th ranked Wisconsin men’s hockey team (13-7-0, 11-5-0 0-1-0 Big Ten) swept the Minnesota Golden Gophers (15-5-0, 11-5-0 0-0-0 Big Ten), pulling out a 8-1 win in their series finale in Minneapolis on Saturday night. The win pushes the Badgers into first...
by Bill Scott | Jan 10, 2021
The 12th-ranked Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey team (6-6-0, 6-3-0-1 Big Ten) split its home series against No. 1 Minnesota (11-1-0, 9-1-0-0 Big Ten) after coming up short in Sunday’s matchup. The Gophers claimed game two, 5-3, after the Badgers handed them...
by Bill Scott | Jan 10, 2021
The Wisconsin men’s hockey team (6-5-0, 6-3-0-0-1-0 Big Ten) scored first and knocked off top-ranked Minnesota (10-1-0, 8-1-0-0-0-0 Big Ten), 3-1, on Saturday at LaBahn Arena, handing the Gophers their first loss of the season. Linus Weissbach put the Badgers on...
by Bill Scott | Dec 13, 2020
Another struggling offensive performance led to another Wisconsin defeat, 28-7 against the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday afternoon in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes broke open a close game with a pair of long touchdown drives in the third quarter, handing the Badgers their third...
by Bill Scott | Nov 24, 2020
As the week began, the possibility was growing that the Badgers wouldn’t be able to play their Saturday home game against the Minnesota Gophers because of rising COVID numbers in the Minnesota football program. That became reality on Tuesday when the...
by Bill Scott | Aug 24, 2020
Despite the Big Ten Conference not playing football this fall, six of the conference’s teams showed up today in the Associated Press Top 25 Preseason Poll. Paul Chryst’s Wisconsin Badgers showed up at number-12, third among the six Big Ten teams in the...
by Bill Scott | Mar 2, 2020
The Wisconsin Badgers ran their win streak to six-straight games, holding off the rival Minnesota Gophers 71-69 on Sunday night at the Kohl Center. Minnesota native Brad Davison scored 20 points and added seven rebounds and five assists for the Badgers. Davison took...
by Bill Scott | Feb 6, 2020
The Wisconsin Badgers were riding high after last week’s upset victory over Michigan State, but the momentum from that win didn’t carry over to last night. Wisconsin traveled to Minneapolis and fell to the Minnesota Gophers 70-52 at Williams Arena. The...
by Bill Scott | Dec 1, 2019
The Minnesota Gophers had an outstanding season, but there will be no trip to the Big Ten title game and Paul Bunyan’s Axe is back in the Wisconsin Badgers trophy case, where it belongs. The Gophers jumped out in front, but the Badgers dominated the rest of the...
by Bill Scott | Nov 24, 2019
The 14th ranked Wisconsin Badgers had a hard time shaking the Purdue Boilermakers early, but pulled away for a 45-24 win at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday. The win allows the Badgers (9-2, 6-2 Big Ten) an opportunity to play border rival Minnesota (10-1, 7-1) for...
by Bill Scott | Nov 15, 2019
The 7th-ranked Wisconsin volleyball team grabbed sole possession of first place in the Big Ten with a four set (25-22, 23-25, 30-28, 29-27) win over the Minnesota Gophers on Thursday night. The Badgers (18-5, 14-1) won their second straight Border Battle match and...
by Bill Scott | Oct 14, 2019
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...
by Bill Scott | Mar 23, 2019
The top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team advanced to the NCAA Frozen four championship game. The Badgers routed Clarkson, 5-0, in Friday’s Frozen Four semifinals in Hamden, Connecticut. Annie Pankowski scored two goals for the Badgers (34-4-2), who...
by Bill Scott | Feb 7, 2019
It was far from perfect, but the 19th ranked Wisconsin Badgers aren’t interested in style points at this stage of the season. After falling to Minnesota at the Kohl Center on January 3, the Badgers returned the favor, pulling out a 56-51 win on Wednesday night...
by Bill Scott | Jan 26, 2019
The Wisconsin Badgers trailed go a goal late in the third period, but the Minnesota Gophers scored four goals in four minutes to come away with a 9-4 victory at Mariucci Arena. Freshman center Mick Messner scored in the second period and forward Brock Caufield, Jack...
by Bill Scott | Jan 4, 2019
The Wisconsin Badgers shot just 26% from the field in the first half and dug too big of a hole to get out of, falling to the rival Minnesota Gophers 59-52 on Thursday night at the Kohl Center. The Badgers made just 2 of 14 three-pointers (14.3 percent) and 6 of 26...
by Bill Scott | Nov 24, 2018
After maintaining possession of Paul Bunyan’s Axe for 14 straight seasons, the Wisconsin Badgers allowed the Minnesota Gophers to reclaim it. The Badgers couldn’t get anything going and fell to the Gophers 37-15 on Senior Day at Camp Randall Stadium. The...
by Bill Scott | Sep 27, 2018
The fifth-ranked Wisconsin volleyball dropped its first Big Ten match of the season, falling to sixth-ranked Minnesota on Wednesday night in three sets, 25-17, 25-21, 25-15. Wisconsin (9-2 overall, 2-1 BIG) hit .221 (39-14-11) for the match but could not slow...
by Bill Scott | Mar 12, 2018
The Wisconsin women’s hockey team are back in the NCAA Frozen Four for the fifth consecutive year and 11th time overall, blanking the rival Minnesota Gophers 4-0 on Saturday at LaBahn Arena in the quarterfinals. The 2nd-seeded Badgers (31-4-2) went 5-1 against...
