by Bill Scott | Mar 25, 2017
For the second straight season, the Wisconsin’s NCAA Tournament run ended in the Sweet 16. Florida guard Chris Chiozza hit a floating three-pointer to send the Gators to a 84-83 overtime victory over Badgers. Wisconsin jumped out to a fast start, then blew a...
by Bill Scott | Mar 17, 2017
Senior guard Bronson Koenig hit eight of his 17 three-pointers and finished with 28 points to lead the Wisconsin Badgers to a 84-74 win over Virginia Tech in the first round of the NCAA East Regional on Thursday night in Buffalo. Fellow senior Nigel Hayes added 16...
by Bill Scott | Mar 13, 2017
Wisconsin (25-9) finished second to Purdue in the Big Ten Conference regular season and second to Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament, losing the title game on Sunday 71-56 at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. Their reward for playing on Sunday is an 8-seed in the...
by Bill Scott | Mar 6, 2017
Five members of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team received season-ending awards from the Big Ten Conference on Monday, led by Ethan Happ, who earned first-team All-Big Ten recognition. Happ joins Michael Finley (1993) as the only Wisconsin players to earn...
by Bill Scott | Mar 6, 2017
After sitting all but five minutes of the first half with foul trouble, senior guard Bronson Koenig took over in the second half, scoring 17 points to lead the Wisconsin Badgers to a 66-49 win over the Minnesota Gophers on Senior Day at the Kohl Center. Koenig hit...
by Bill Scott | Mar 3, 2017
The Wisconsin Badgers certainly weren’t setting the world on fire, but they did appear as if they would pick up a much needed Big Ten win to stay in the Big Ten title hunt. Then a play here and play there, a couple of missed free throws and the heroics of an...
by Bill Scott | Feb 17, 2017
Playing without senior point guard Bronson Koenig (left calf injury), the 10th ranked Wisconsin Badgers lost their second consecutive game, falling 64-58 to the Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ethan Happ finished with 22 points on 10 of 13 shooting, but 18...
by Bill Scott | Jan 4, 2017
Ethan Happ scored 19 points and Bronson Koenig added 17 to lead the 13th ranked Wisconsin Badgers to a 75-68 win over the 25th ranked Indiana Hoosiers in Bloomington on Tuesday night. The Badgers (13-2, 2-0 Big Ten) have won nine straight games. The Badgers made their...
by Bill Scott | Dec 28, 2016
The 14th ranked Wisconsin Badgers captured their Big Ten Conference opener for the 13th time in the last 14 years, knocking off Rutgers 72-52 at the Kohl Center. Nigel Hayes scored 20 points, including 10 for 10 from the free throw line and Zak Showalter added 18...
by Bill Scott | Dec 15, 2016
The 14th ranked Wisconsin Badgers got 24 points from Nigel Hayes and beat the Green Bay Phoenix 73-59 on Wednesday night at the Kohl Center. The Badgers improved to 10-2 and will get some time off before facing Florida A & M on Dec. 23. That will be the final...
by Bill Scott | Nov 30, 2016
The 17th-ranked Wisconsin Badgers made quick work of Syracuse and their 2-3 zone defense, knocking off the Orange 77-60 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Tuesday night at the Kohl Center. Ethan Happ scored 24 points and pulled down 13 rebounds, hitting 10 of 12 from the...
by Bill Scott | Mar 21, 2016
Bronson Koenig played the hero on Sunday night, hitting two of his six 3-pointers in the final seconds to send the Wisconsin Badgers to a 66-63 win over the Xavier Musketeers in St. Louis. Koenig hit a three with 11.7 seconds left to tie the game at 63-all. After Zak...
by Bill Scott | Mar 7, 2016
With the third-seed in the upcoming Big Ten Tournament on the line, the Wisconsin Badgers ran into a red-hot Purdue Boilermakers team, falling 91-80 on Senior Day in West Lafayette. Purdue (24-7, 12-6 Big Ten) hit the Badgers from both inside and out. Outside, P.J....
by Bill Scott | Mar 3, 2016
The Minnesota Gophers played once again without three of their top players, after they were suspended for the remainder of the season. The Wisconsin Badgers jumped out early, built a comfortable lead and cruised to a 62-49 victory at Williams Arena. Wisconsin coach...
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 | Mar 27, 2015
It required a second half rally, contributions from a two unexpected bench players, and a career night for a rising star to push the Wisconsin Badgers past North Carolina, 79-72, and into the NCAA Tournament’s Elite 8 for a second consecutive year. Junior Sam...
by Bill Scott | Mar 23, 2015
The top-seeded Wisconsin Badgers are moving on to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 for the seventh time under Bo Ryan after beating eighth-seeded Oregon 72-65 in a West Region 3rd Round game in Omaha, Neb. Wisconsin’s frontline of Sam Dekker (17), Frank...
by Bill Scott | Oct 29, 2013
Wisconsin sophomore guard Zak Showalter has decided to redshirt this season. Showalter averaged 6.7 minutes in 22 games as a true freshman last season, looked at the logjam of bodies in the Badgers’ backcourt and wondered how much he’d see the floor this...
