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Click Here to View Badgers News   Badgers Gard officially announced as UW basketball head coach The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletics Department officially announced Greg Gard as the basketball team's head coach Monday. View More Nigel Hayes named first team All-Big Ten Denzel Valentine of Michigan State is Big Ten player of the year in voting by the coaches and a unanimous pick to their all-conference first team along with Indiana's Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell and Iowa's Jarrod Uthoff. View More Mike McGinnis, Getty Images Board of Regents to make decision on head coach Greg Gard has been picked to replace Badgers basketball coach Bo Ryan, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. View More No. 15 Purdue stops Wisconsin 91-80 Freshman Caleb Swanigan scored a career-high 27 points and sophomore P.J. Thompson also set a career best with 22, leading No. 15 Purdue to a 91-80 victory against Wisconsin on Sunday. View More Badgers win WCHA women's hockey title Sydney McKibbon scored midway through the second period to give the Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey team a 1-0 win over Minnesota for the championship of the WCHA Final Face-Off in Minneapolis Sunday afternoon. View More UW-Madison chancellor: Bo Ryan cleared of misusing UW funds in reported affair Retired UW Badgers men's basketball coach Bo Ryan was cleared of allegations that he misused university resources, according to a statement from University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Becky Blank Saturday. View More David Corso Badgers fire women's basketball coach The University of Wisconsin-Madison women's head basketball Coach Bobbie Kelsey "will not be retained," Athletic Director Barry Alvarez said Friday. View More Mike McGinnis, Getty Images Report: Gard to be offered long-term contract University of Wisconsin officials are expected to offer interim head coach Greg Gard a long-term contract, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. View More Badgers keep rolling with 62-49 win over Gophers Bronson Koenig had 14 points and six assists, Ethan Happ added 12 points and 10 rebounds and Wisconsin breezed by undermanned Minnesota 62-49 on Wednesday night, the 11th win by the Badgers in their last 12 games. View More Channel3000_Web_Staff Badgers' season ends in OT loss to Northwestern Nia Coffey and Christen Inman scored 18 points apiece and 12th-seeded Northwestern played without its senior leader Maggie Lyon in a 76-72 overtime victory over 13th seed Wisconsin on Wednesday in the first round of the Big Ten women's tournament. View More Getty Images Top 25 roundup: Indiana wins big Ten title with win over Iowa For the second time in four seasons, Indiana is the outright Big Ten regular-season champion. The 12th-ranked Hoosiers secured sole possession of the league crown by defeating the No. 16 Iowa Hawkeyes 81-78 Tuesday. View More Mike McGinnis, Getty Images In the interim, Wisconsin's Gard enjoying banner success Wisconsin interim coach Greg Gard has never actively campaigned to become the permanent successor to the retired Bo Ryan. View More Sam Dekker returns to Wisconsin Former Wisconsin Badger Sam Dekker's NBA career finally has some good timing. View More Badgers just miss out on AP Top 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 28, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:                         Record   Pts Prv  1. Kansas (63)           25-4  1,623   2  2. Michigan St. (2)      24-5  1,510   6  3. Villanova             25-4  1,479   1  4. Virginia              22-6  1,405   3  5. Xavier                25-4  1,356   5  6. Oklahoma              22-6  1,297   3  7. Miami                 23-5  1,211  12  8. North Carolina        23-6  1,205   7  9. Oregon                23-6  1,065  13 10. West Virginia         22-7  1,056  14 11. Louisville            22-7    822  11 12. Indiana               23-6    819  18 13. Utah                  23-7    751  22 14. Maryland              23-6    733  10 15. Purdue                22-7    613  20 16. Iowa                  20-8    572   8 17. Duke                  21-8    495  15 18. Arizona               22-7    450   9 19. Baylor                21-8    447  19 20. Texas A&M             22-7    419  21 21. Iowa St.              20-9    413  17 22. Kentucky              21-8    405  16 23. Texas                19-10    338  25 24. SMU                   24-4    196  24 25. California            21-8    178   --    Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 93, Seton Hall 60, Wichita St. 43, Saint Joseph's 29, Notre Dame 14, Texas Tech 12, Cincinnati 4, Saint Mary's (Cal) 3, Vanderbilt 3, UALR 2, Valparaiso 2, Dayton 1, Stephen F. Austin 1. View More GETTY IMAGES Koenig, Happ help spark Wisconsin in 68-57 win over Michigan Bronson Koenig scored 19 points, and Ethan Happ helped trigger a second-half surge with clutch plays on both ends of the floor in Wisconsin's 68-57 victory Sunday over Michigan. View More Badgers sweep Mavs in WCHA playoffs The Badgers women's hockey team beat Minnesota State, 6-0, at LaBahn Arena on Saturday to sweep the Mavs in the first round of the WCHA playoffs. View More Badger women win WCHA playoff game, 4-0 over MSU The Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey team defeated Minnesota State-Mankato, 4-0 in a WCHA first round playoff game at LaBahn Arena Friday night. View More Mike McGinnis, Getty Images With Badgers surging, Wisconsin posts hoops coaching job Wisconsin interim coach Greg Gard might want to update his cover letter. View More Big Ten hockey league power felt more off ice than on so far Big Ten hockey has not been much of a force in its first three seasons. That hasn't stopped the conference from throwing a few elbows in the insular world of college hockey. View More Mike McGinnis, Getty Images UW posts job opening for men's basketball coach The University of Wisconsin has posted a job opening for the men's basketball coaching position presently being filled by interim coach Greg Gard. 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