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UW could have quieted the it’s-going-to-be-a-long-season crowd — at least for one night — but made too many mistakes down the stretch of a 65-63 overtime loss to Saint Mary’s at the Sanford Pentagon.

“(Playing at a faster pace) is something (coach Greg Gard) always semi-preaches,” says guard Brad Davison, “but this year he’s fully in on it.”

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the Eastern Illinois Panthers in their home opener on Friday night. 

The Badgers pulled away for a 65-52 win over the Panthers, but the game felt a bit like an afterthought after a pregame ceremony honoring the family of assistant coach Howard Moore. Moore and his family were involved in an automobile accident in late May in Michigan that killed his wife Jen and 9-year-old daughter Jaidyn.

Reuvers, a junior forward for the UW men’s basketball team, averaged 18 points, 10 rebounds and 6.5 blocks in two games last week.

The transfer from Ohio State will state his case for immediate eligibility at UW.

Jonathan was born the morning of Feb. 27, 2002, and Jordan arrived about eight minutes later. After they’d been swaddled in blankets, their father took them into his long arms and posed for a photo with some props: a pair of orange, Nerf basketballs.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the McNeese State Cowboys on Wednesday night at the Kohl Center.

After years of uneven recruiting in which the program seemed to swing and miss on high-level recruits, these five commitments were selected on having the potential to develop into high-quality Big Ten Conference players at some point in their careers.

Junior guard Brad Davison scored 24 points and junior forward Aleem Ford added a career-high 16 for UW (2-1), which played without injured starter Kobe King and had to use some funky lineups at times due to its two frontcourt starters being in foul trouble.

Coaching staff assembles program's highest-rated class while reeling from the devastating loss endured by the Moore family.

Transfer Koby McEwen joins standout Markus Howard to lead the Golden Eagles' attack.

The balance UW has talked about achieving over and over in a post-Ethan Happ system was on full display as the Badgers ended a two-game losing streak to the Golden Eagles, recording their most lopsided victory in the series in 21 years.

Trevor Anderson, UW's backup point guard, takes pride in not turning the ball over, and he is turnover-free in the 42 minutes he’s played this season.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the UW-Green Bay Phoenix on Thursday night at the Kohl Center. 

Micah Potter won’t be able to play until Dec. 21 when the Badgers play UW-Milwaukee at the Kohl Center.

A few hours after Micah Potter’s third and final appeal for eligibility was denied by an NCAA committee, UW used a balanced attack to coast to an 88-70 win over UW-Green Bay.

Greg Gard railed on the NCAA Committee for Legislative Relief and raged about an inconsistent system that rewards some transfers with immediate eligibility and yet penalizes Micah Potter, who didn’t play at all last season and will be forced to sit out the first 10 games in 2019-20.

A frustrated Tom Izzo said Thursday he was resigning from the NABC board to focus on his team and family, but he also blamed the NCAA for making what he called "arbitrary decisions” regarding waiver requests, including denying forward Joey Hauser’s appeal to play this season.

UW has placed six players in double figures in back-to-back games heading into a Legends Classic semifinal matchup against Richmond on Monday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the Richmond Spiders in the Legends Classic on Monday night at the Barclays Center.

The Badgers arrived in the Big Apple with an offense that was firing on all cylinders. That wasn’t the case Monday night at the Barclays Center, where UW looked awful on that end of the court during a 62-52 loss to Richmond in a Legends Classic semifinal.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the New Mexico Lobos on Tuesday afternoon in the Legends Classic at the Barclays Center.

The Badgers will head to the second month of the 2019-20 campaign with a pretty empty résumé after dropping a 59-50 decision to New Mexico in the consolation game of the Legends Classic at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The Badgers (4-3) turned the ball over 15 times in Monday night's loss to the Spiders and had 14 turnovers in Tuesday's loss to the Lobos.

Brad Davison, who has made a name for himself by taking charges, was issued a pair of warnings for flopping during last week's games in New York.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the North Carolina State Wolfpack in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C.

UW's cold streak didn’t end Wednesday night at PNC Arena, where the Badgers dropped a 69-54 decision to North Carolina State in a Big Ten/ACC Challenge game.

The Badgers (4-4) take a three-game losing streak into Saturday's Big Ten opener vs. Indiana (8-0) at the Kohl Center.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team opens Big Ten play against the Indiana Hoosiers on Saturday afternoon at the Kohl Center.

Sophomore wing Kobe King scored a career-high 24 points to help the Badgers open up Big Ten Conference play with a thoroughly dominating, 84-64 victory over previously unbeaten Indiana on Saturday afternoon at the Kohl Center. 

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Wednesday night at Rutgers Athletic Center.

The Badgers (5-5, 1-1 Big Ten) have been the definition of mediocrity over the first 10 games of the season, tantalizingly good at home and the exact opposite once they depart Madison. UW is now 0-5 away from the Kohl Center, and the scary part is its most difficult road games are on the horizon.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as Micah Potter makes his long-awaited debut for the Badgers when the UW men's basketball team hosts the UW-Milwaukee Panthers on Saturday afternoon at the Kohl Center in Madison. 

D'Mitrik Trice and Nate Reuvers apparently didn’t get the memo that Micah Potter was supposed to be the headliner in UW’s first game after semester exams. The two combined for 53 points, with Trice finishing with a career-high 31. 

The 6-foot-10 junior transfer's well-rounded game plugs many of the holes that were exposed in UW's first 10 games. And Micah Potter's boundless energy, fueled by 645 days between games, should lift the spirits of a team that seemed to be questioning itself at times.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday at Thompson-Boling Arena.

UW, 0-5 this season away from the Kohl Center, will be greeted by a rowdy atmosphere at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn.

D’Mitrik Trice scored 21 points and Brevin Pritzl added a season-high 17 in the Badgers’ 68-48 victory over Tennessee on Saturday afternoon at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the Rider Broncs to wrap up its non-conference schedule Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.

Nate Reuvers scored 15 points to lead four players in double figures as the Badgers coasted to a 65-37 victory over Rider in a non-conference finale at the Kohl Center.

Junior forward Nate Reuvers scored seven of his team-high 17 points over the final 3 minutes, 20 seconds of the game, helping UW record a shocking 61-57 victory over No. 5 Ohio State in a Big Ten Conference dogfight.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the Illinois Fighting Illini in a Big Ten showdown Wednesday night at the Kohl Center.

Ayo Dosunmu finished with 18 points and six assists to help the Fighting Illini produce a come-from-behind 71-70 victory Wednesday night at the Kohl Center, ending the Badgers' 15-game winning streak in the series.

The first test of whether UW could sustain the level of play it showed against Ohio State came Wednesday night when on-the-rise Illinois came to the Kohl Center. 

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on No. 20 Penn State in a Big Ten showdown Saturday at the Bryce Jordan Center.

Junior forward Micah Potter finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds — both career highs — to lead the Badgers to a 58-49 win over No. 20 Penn State at the Bryce Jordan Center on Saturday afternoon.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the No. 17 Maryland Terrapins in a Big Ten showdown Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.

Brad Davison made two huge plays — one on defense, one on offense — over the span of 3.3 seconds to help the Badgers rally past the No. 17 Terrapins for a 56-54 win Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team faces the 15th-ranked Michigan State Spartans in a Big Ten battle Friday night in East Lansing, Michigan.

UW junior forward Nate Reuvers scored 19 points and sophomore wing Kobe King added 10 but No. 15 Michigan State rolled to a 67-55 victory, UW’s 12th consecutive defeat in East Lansing, Michigan. 

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a Big Ten battle Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.

The Badgers finished 18 of 34 from 3-point range as they defeated the Cornhuskers 82-68, topping their mark of 17 set against Coppin State on Dec. 23, 2010. Their previous record for a Big Ten game was 14, most recently at Purdue on Jan. 5, 2005.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the Purdue Boilermakers in a Big Ten showdown Friday night at Mackey Arena.

D’Mitrik Trice and Micah Potter each scored 11 points and Nate Reuvers added 10 to lead UW, which fell to 0-4 at Mackey Arena under coach Greg Gard as the Boilermakers destroyed the Badgers on the glass en route to a 70-51 win Friday night. 

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the No. 18 Iowa Hawkeyes in a Big Ten showdown Monday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

On the heels of news earlier Monday that sophomore Kobe King didn’t make the trip due to what was referred to as a “personal matter,” the Badgers fell at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, wasting a 12-point lead in the second half and dropping a 68-62 decision to No. 18 Iowa.

Brad Davison was suspended for one game by the Big Ten for his flagrant foul late in a loss at Iowa on Monday night, a punishment that will leave the Badgers severely shorthanded this weekend against No. 14 Michigan State.

Badgers head coach Greg Gard and his three assistants — Joe Krabbenhoft, Dean Oliver and Alando Tucker — traveled to La Crosse on Tuesday night to meet with the Davis twins and their parents, Mark and Sarah.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the No. 14 Michigan State Spartans in a Big Ten showdown Saturday at the Kohl Center.

After a brutal week for the program, the Badgers' shorthanded lineup showed remarkable resiliency to hang on for a 64-63 win over No. 14 Michigan State on Saturday at the Kohl Center.

With their 64-63 victory over 14th-ranked Michigan State, the Badgers showed the bottom hasn't fallen out of the program and there is still much to be accomplished this season. Better yet, they did it in the most UW way possible.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the Minnesota Golden Gophers in a Big Ten showdown Wednesday night at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. 

UW never led and trailed by as many as 22 points as Minnesota rolled to a 70-52 win Wednesday night, following a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that UW officials are investigating an allegation that a member of the staff used a racial epithet in the presence of at least one player.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the Ohio State Buckeyes in a Big Ten showdown Sunday at the Kohl Center.

Senior Brevin Pritzl scored a season-high 19 points to help the Badgers improve to 11-1 at the Kohl Center this season with a 70-57 victory over Ohio State on Sunday afternoon.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team takes on the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Saturday afternoon at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Brad Davison and D'Mitrik Trice combined to go 13 of 17 from 3-point range to help lift UW to an 81-64 victory over Nebraska on Saturday afternoon in Lincoln, Nebraska.

“It's been the most difficult (season) in my 25 years," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “There's so many teams that can win it, I think it will be probably the most exciting tournament since they started this thing."

Nate Reuvers led the way with 15 points for UW, which also got 14 points from Kobe King, 13 from Brad Davison, 12 from Aleem Ford and 10 from D’Mitrik Trice in a 82-53 exhibition win over UW-La Crosse on Friday night at the Kohl Center.

The 6-8 forward added strength, confidence during the offseason.

“We’ll continue to push it because we think it’s the right thing to do," says Badgers coach Greg Gard.

An attorney representing Micah Potter says UW is filing a request for reconsideration of the NCAA's ruling that the Badgers junior forward must sit out the first semester this season.

The forward finishes with nine points and eight rebounds.

Tucker steps in for Howard Moore, who was seriously injured in a car crash in May that took the life of his wife and daughter.

The junior forward who transferred from Ohio State won’t be eligible to make his Badgers debut until late December.

UW, picked to finish sixth in a poll of conference beat writers, fails to land a player on the 10-member preseason All-Big Ten team announced Wednesday.

Get the latest analysis, injury reports and highlights as the UW men's basketball team hosts the Purdue Boilermakers in a Big Ten showdown Tuesday at the Kohl Center.

Junior forward Aleem Ford had a career-high 19 points as the Badgers won their third straight Big Ten game, 69-65 over Purdue, to move into a five-way tie for third place in the Big Ten Conference.