The Badgers are 7-1 and No. 18 in the NET rankings, which are used to choose and seed the NCAA tournament field. But the season is only a month old and the road in the Big Ten is filled with potholes that will challenge a young team.
The Badgers climbed in the poll after winning both of their games last week to improve to 7-1 on the season.
What went right and what went wrong for the Badgers football team as it waits for a bowl game announcement.
The Kohl Center is sold out for the first time this season with the Wisconsin men’s basketball team set to welcome the Golden Eagles to Madison.
Regardless of who serves on the search committee, the full Board of Regents gets the final say in who to hire.
The 23rd-ranked Badgers kept rolling away from home, picking up their first true road win of the season with a 70-66 victory over the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta.
Lee Sports Wisconsin columnist Jim Polzin answers questions from readers in his weekly mailbag.
The Badgers entered the poll after upsetting then-No. 12 Houston and defeating Saint Mary’s to win the Maui Invitational last week.
Former University of Wisconsin athletic director and star athlete Pat Richter was named this year’s recipient of the Big Ten Conference’s Ford-Kinnick Leadership Award.
The Badgers started the season talking about making history and completing unfinished business. They ended it by getting pushed around by a rival they've dominated.
Braelon Allen’s seven-game streak of 100 or more yards rushing ended with 47 yards on 17 attempts, his worst performance by far since becoming the full-time starter. The Badgers totaled just 62 yards on the ground.
The Badgers finished with three sacks, but their inability to make Tanner Morgan uncomfortable allowed the Gophers to win back Paul Bunyan's Axe.
Ineptitude on offense leads to awful grade as columnist Jim Polzin grades Wisconsin's loss to Minnesota and the end of the Badgers' push to reach the Big Ten title game.
The Badgers’ running game went missing as they blew their chance to play for the Big Ten title and a key pass interference call went the Gophers’ way.
A win over Minnesota would give the Badgers a 6-0 record in what arguably is the third-best division in the country.
Tarek Baker's third-period goal gave the Badgers a 1-1 tie with the Golden Knights, but they wanted to keep going.
1. D-line needs best game: The improvement of the Badgers’ defensive line has been one of the most important factors to the defense being the FBS’ best against the run. That unit needs to have its best game of the season against the Gophers and contain the rushing attack to give the defense added flexibility against Minnesota’s quick passing game.
1. Tackle Braelon Allen: This sounds obvious, but the seven consecutive teams that have allowed Allen to rush for more than 100 yards all had trouble bringing down the Badgers’ star freshman tailback. Allen is clearly not 100%, as he’s been slow to get up after tackles and dealing with some lower-body injuries as his role has increased, but the Gophers must wrap up after contact and attack him low.
Series: UW leads 62-60-8
Colten's prediction
When the Badgers have the ball
Lee Sports Wisconsin columnist Jim Polzin answers questions from readers in his weekly mailbag.
Julie Pospisilova scored 19 points and Sydney Hilliard had 13 for UW in the 79-67 loss.
"When you’ve been in business that long, of course there’s a chance that there will be an experience or two where the customer isn’t quite happy," the search committee chair said of the hired firm.
The Badgers took advantage of a friendly crowd in Las Vegas to overcome a 16-point deficit to down the Aggies 69-58.
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