After last night’s loss at Minnesota, I think we can safely put the Wisconsin Badgers’ chances of winning the Big(11)Ten basketball championship to bed. Given where they’re at right now with trying to work forward Jon Leuer... read more »
February 19, 2010 4:26 pm / 1 comment
An underappreciated gem in the Wisconsin sports landscape is the UW-Green Bay women’s basketball program. A couple of weeks ago, I watched the Phoenix defeat a previously ranked DePaul team. Last night, I went to the Kress Events Center... read more »
December 20, 2009 10:01 am / no comments
In the last few days, we got our first real glimpse of the University of Wisconsin basketball team in action against real competition in the Maui Classic. The Badgers registered wins against Arizona and Maryland while being defeated pretty... read more »
November 26, 2009 8:57 am / 2 comments
The University of Wisconsin basketball team may have lost a future recruit this week when Madison Memorial junior guard Vander Blue withdrew an earlier verbal committment to the Badgers. In doing so, Blue sounded like a normal confused 16... read more »
May 23, 2009 5:33 am / 6 comments
At the post game press conference following last night’s NCAA Championship basketball game, winning coach Roy Williams dropped into third person mode while at the same time trying to sound a note of humility. Pocket Doppler thinks this... read more »
April 7, 2009 2:33 pm / 1 comment
After all the wrangling about seeding and who got in and/or was left out of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, what we are left with is two #1 seeds, a #2 and a #3. In fact, the “Elite 8″ included nothing lower than a... read more »
March 29, 2009 7:32 pm / no comments
I was watching highlights of the U. of Memphis loss to Missouri in the NCAA tournament (a game which put the final nail in my bracket’s coffin, BTW) when it was mentioned that the last time Memphis had given up 100 points in a game was... read more »
March 29, 2009 6:34 am / 1 comment
One of the things I like about our President is that he comes off as an “everyman”, whether it’s drinking a beer at a Wizards game or, as seen here, filling out his bracket.
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March 18, 2009 12:27 pm / 1 comment
Every year the NCAA Tournament selection committee announces what it deems to be the 65 teams worthy of playing for the National Championship in college basketball. And then we are subjected to the tired cacophony of whining from teams that... read more »
March 16, 2009 3:08 pm / 2 comments
Now that the Badger basketball team has concluded it’s Big(11)Ten season, I have started to consider their future.
Not their future in the NCAA tournament. If you’ve watched the team this season, then you should already have a... read more »
March 15, 2009 7:34 am / 5 comments