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LISTEN: Greg Gard joins Scalzo & Brust to respond to leaked recording

The Wisconsin head coach joins ESPN Madison to discuss his thoughts on the recording

After a wild day for the Wisconsin basketball program that began with a leaked recording of a February team meeting between the coaching staff and the seniors, head coach Greg Gard joined ESPN Madison’s Scalzo & Brust to discuss his reactions to the recording.

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The news of the recording originally broke with an article from Jim Polzin of the Wisconsin State Journal yesterday morning. A 37-minute recording revealed a rift between the seniors and the Wisconsin basketball coaching staff.

Gard met with the team yesterday and discussed the news.  Hear are his reactions to violating the “safe zone” that is a sports locker room:

A leaked Wisconsin basketball team meeting reveals conflict between Badger seniors, coach Greg Gard

An explosive meeting between Badger seniors and Greg Gard was secretly recorded and released

Wisconsin basketball faced a dramatic day on Tuesday when Wisconsin State Journal columnist Jim Polzin released an article surrounding a 37-minute audio file that the newspaper anonymously received via email.

The audio clip was a secretly recorded meeting from back in February of Wisconsin basketball’s seniors confronting head coach Greg Gard about their relationships, their season, and more. The meeting occurred the day after a 77-62 Wisconsin loss to Iowa at the Kohl Center on February 18.

Explosive quotes surrounding the player-coach relationships came to light due to the anonymous, secretive recording of a private team meeting.

Among a number of quotes from the seniors was Aleem Ford telling Gard that, “I don’t know if I would want my son to come here or if I would tell people to come here and play for this program because I wouldn’t want anyone else to go through what I went through.”

Walt McGrory, who has since transferred to South Dakota, told Gard, “I don’t know if I’ll ever talk to you again after this.”

Whoever secretly recorded the meeting only released around 37 minutes of a 2-hour exchange. The Wisconsin State Journal reached out to players and to Gard for comment and context surrounding the rest of the meeting and the season, and an unnamed player mentioned that there was an emotional apology from the Badger head coach.

“He sat there, he listened and there was not one dry eye in the entire room at the end of everything. The biggest thing that he did at the end was he apologized again and he was in tears and he said, ‘It’s not your fault, it’s my fault.'”

This afternoon, Gard released a statement surrounding the audio and the aftermath:

Wisconsin is on the bubble in ESPN’s latest ‘bracketology’

From 1998-99 to 2016-17, the Wisconsin Badgers did not miss an NCAA Tournament. The majority of those years were during Bo Ryan’s

From 1998-99 to 2016-17, the Wisconsin Badgers did not miss an NCAA Tournament.

The majority of those years were during Bo Ryan’s term as head coach, arguably the greatest stretch of basketball the school has ever seen.

Despite a down year in 2017-18 under Greg Gard, the team still seems to find its way into the dance every March. But heading into the 2021-22 season, the outlook isn’t nearly as high as we’ve seen in the past.

Earlier today, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi released his latest bracketology and squarely ‘on the bubble’ are your Wisconsin Badgers.

The program joins Washington State, Northwestern and Oklahoma as Lunardi’s ‘first four out,’ sitting behind his ‘last four in’ of Syracuse, Colorado State, Saint Mary’s and Creighton.

While expectations will be checked for the 2021-22 Badgers, an NCAA Tournament appearance should still realistic for Greg Gard and his extremely young basketball team.

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Wisconsin head coaches react to the department’s partnership with Opendorse

The Wisconsin Athletic Department announced yesterday it was partnering with Opendorse to launch the ‘YouDub’ program, giving student

The Wisconsin Athletic Department announced yesterday it was partnering with Opendorse to launch the ‘YouDub’ program, giving student-athletes an opportunity to capitalize on their own name, image and likeness.

The move is made in line with sweeping changes across college sports. While there are still more hurdles to pass, college athletics is on its way to allowing student-athletes to make money off their own name, image and likeness.

Here is what the head coaches of various Wisconsin teams had to say about the news:

Wisconsin Athletic Board extends a number of head coaches

The Wisconsin Athletic Board finalized a number of extensions for head coaches earlier this afternoon, per release. Among those coaches were Wisconsin basketball head coach Greg Gard and Wisconsin football head coach Paul Chryst, who were each …

The Wisconsin Athletic Board finalized a number of extensions for head coaches earlier this afternoon, per release.

Among those coaches were Wisconsin basketball head coach Greg Gard and Wisconsin football head coach Paul Chryst, who were each extended through the 2025-2026. Here is a full list of coaches and timelines for their extensions from the university press release:


·Football coach Paul Chryst’s five-year agreement was extended through January 31, 2026

· Women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson’s five-year agreement was extended through June 30, 2026

·Men’s basketball coach Greg Gard’s five-year agreement was extended through May 31, 2026

· Men’s hockey coach Tony Granato’s five-year agreement was extended through June 30, 2026

· Swimming and diving coach Yuri Suguiyama’s three-year agreement was extended through June 14, 2024

· Wrestling coach Chris Bono’s three-year agreement was extended through May 31, 2024

An early look at Wisconsin basketball’s 2021-2022 roster, possible rotation

Wisconsin basketball’s 2020-21 season has come to an end and with it, so has the careers of seniors Brad Davison, D’Mitrik Trice,

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Wisconsin basketball’s 2020-21 season has come to an end and with it, so has the careers of seniors Brad Davison, D’Mitrik Trice, Aleem Ford and Nate Reuvers.

Now, those four along with Micah Potter and Trevor Anderson have the option to come back next season. While nothing has been made official yet, based on social media posts and messages it seems like Davison, Trice, Ford and Reuvers are moving on from college basketball.

In terms of Potter and Anderson? Not much has been said since the team’s season-ending loss to Baylor on Sunday.

Even if we see one or two seniors stay another season, the 2021-22 roster is set to be young and inexperienced. Eras come to an end in college sports, and Sunday was undoubtedly the end of the Trice—Davison era and the start of the next.

Related: Five takeaways from Wisconsin’s second round loss to Baylor

After the 2020-21 season saw television broadcasts go on-and-on about the Badgers’ experience, next year they will get to harp on the team only returning approximately 49 minutes-per-game of experience.

Yes, those are the combined totals of Jonathan Davis and Tyler Wahl. Aside from them, there will be a lot of first-time starters seeing the basketball court.

Here, at this point in time, is what the 2021-2022 Wisconsin basketball roster is set to look like:

(Note: Much will change if Potter or another senior decides to return, or if the Badgers are active in the transfer market)

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Everything HC Greg Gard said after Wisconsin’s 62-57 loss to Iowa

The third time wasn’t the charm for the Wisconsin Badgers last night, as they fell to the Iowa Hawkeyes 62-57 and saw their Big Ten dreams

The third time wasn’t the charm for the Wisconsin Badgers last night, as they fell to the Iowa Hawkeyes 62-57 and saw their Big Ten Tournament dreams come to an end.

The final minutes of the game were more of the same for Greg Gard’s team, with turnovers and a massive cold spell on offense allowing the Hawkeyes to pull away and complete their third win over the Badgers this season.

Related: Wisconsin basketball legend Sam Dekker says which all-time Badger he would want taking the last shot

Here is everything Gard said after the loss:

Greg Gard went off on Big Ten officiating and more after Wisconsin’s 77-73 loss to Iowa

Today after the Wisconsin Badgers lost 77-73 to the Iowa Hawkeyes thanks in large part to numerous questionable moments from the officials,

Greg Gard, just like Bo Ryan before him, isn’t commonly known as a fiery coach that makes a mark during postgame press conferences.

There are some instances, however, when that tendency is forced to change.

Today after the Wisconsin Badgers lost 77-73 to the Iowa Hawkeyes thanks in large part to numerous questionable moments from the officials, Gard showed us a side of him that we haven’t previously seen.

This is referring specifically to the late-game performance by Bo Boroski and the Big Ten referee crew that handed Iowa the game and continued to unfairly evaluate the play of Brad Davison.

Related: The Twitter world reacts to Wisconsin basketball’s controversial loss to Iowa

Here is everything Gard said in his postgame press conference, with a bonus clip of freshman Jonathan Davis’ thoughts on the situation:

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What the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament bracket looks like if it started today

A look at the Big Ten tournament bracket

We are still a few weeks out from the 2021 Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, but the bracket is beginning to take shape with just a handful of games left in conference play.

One thing will be for sure on March 10 when the tournament gets under way: this is the toughest road to a conference championship in the nation. If the tournament started today, the top three seeds in the conference would be three of the top five teams in the nation according to the AP Poll. The top four seeds receive a coveted first and second round double bye, while the bottom four have to play in the first round of games.

Wisconsin has an outside chance of landing a top four seed as the Badgers sit two back in the loss column from current fourth-place team Iowa, who Wisconsin will meet again in Iowa City before the year is over. Here is a complete look at the bracket if the tournament were to start today:

There will likely be little change near the top, as the top six seeds are all but locked in. It would be difficult for Wisconsin to jump to four, but it is very possible for the Badgers to leap over Purdue as the two squads meet next Tuesday and are only separated by one game in the loss column. There is no advantageous third round matchup, and taking care of business in the second round is no walk in the park either. This is setting up to be one of the deepest Big Ten tournament fields ever, and it’s anybody’s guess as to who will be raising the hardware in Indy come March 14.

What Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard said after the loss to Michigan

The Badgers head coach on why Wisconsin fell short

No. 3 Michigan (14-1, 10-1 Big Ten) came storming back in the second half to erase a 12-point No. 21 Wisconsin (15-7, 9-6) halftime lead, as they quickly shook off the rust from their COVID-19 pause.

After the game, Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard spoke on why the Badgers lost their composure and the lead in the final 20 minutes. Here are some of his words from Sunday’s press conference: