A year of major changes and obstacles overcome just to get games on the schedule made it tough to pick, but these are Todd D. Milewski's five favorite stories from 2021.
How Steven Crowl's 'thirst for knowledge' is helping make the Wisconsin men's basketball team better
Crowl is averaging 9.4 points and 5.4 rebounds on 42.6% shooting over the team’s eight games, but that only tells part of the story.
From features that show the human side of Badgers athletes to breaking news on the UW football beat, Colten Bartholomew shares his five favorite stories of the year.
The Badgers women's hockey team has played three series against ranked opponents and all have ended with an overtime game.
The Badgers were fourth in the Big Ten in number of Associated Press All-Big Ten first- or second-team selections.
The Heisman Trophy finalists were announced Monday.
It’s impossible to know whether Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman will be the next Knute Rockne or the next Charlie Weis.
Mario Cristobal is going home again.
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.
The Badgers men’s basketball team earned at least one weekly Big Ten honor for the second straight week.
The Badgers women's hockey team lost and tied against Minnesota but didn't slip from the top spot in the USCHO poll.
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The Badgers (8-4) will take on the Sun Devils (8-4) on Dec. 30 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Mark Turgeon's tenure at Maryland is over, less than a month after the start of his 11th season at the helm.
Oklahoma hired Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables as its head coach to replace Lincoln Riley on Sunday night, bringing back a former Sooners assistant with a long track record of success.
A fun thing to do this season has to been ponder how the College Football Playoff race would have played out if expansion to 12 teams had already happened.
Baylor will meet Minnesota in the first match Thursday at the UW Field House.
More than 70% of the Badgers' roster had never played a true road game or a sell out at the Kohl Center before this season.
UW sophomore guards Brooke Schramek and Halle Douglass each establish new scoring highs.
Fourth-seeded Cincinnati is the first team to reach the College Football Playoff from a non-Power Five conference in the eight-year history of this postseason format.
In addition to posting career highs of 15 points and six assists, the rookie point guard set the tone defensively in the Badgers' win over rival Marquette.
Columnist Jim Polzin asked Badgers fans on Twitter what they thought of the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team's 89-76 victory over the rival Marquette Golden Eagles on Saturday at the Kohl Center in Madison.
The No. 23 Badgers kept rolling with an 89-76 victory over the in-state rival Golden Eagles on Saturday at the Kohl Center.
The sophomore guard led UW with 25 points to earn state-wide bragging rights in the I-94 rivalry game against the Golden Eagles.