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The Wisconsin Badgers are enjoying a nice four-game win streak over the last two weeks, which has improved their stock quite significantly. Seen as a team outside the NCAA Tournament picture after a blowout loss to Purdue, Wisconsin has rattled off wins over UCLA, Michigan, Minnesota, and Rutgers, and now stands just one spot outside of the AP Top 25. After a pair of ugly shooting games to end 2025 and begin the new year, the Badgers have started to figure out their offense, hitting double-digit threes in each of the four wins, while they’ve hit that coveted 80-point marker. In fact, when the Badgers score 80 or more points, they’ve been 12-0 this season. That’s the magic number they need to hit to win games. When they’ve fallen short of 80, they’re just 1-5, with the Minnesota game being the one exception (Wisconsin scored 78). Wisconsin’s offense is the key to this team. They’re still working things out on the defensive end, struggling with consistency as we saw in the Rutgers win. After a stellar first half defensively, the Badgers allowed Rutgers to score 58 points and come back within single digits in the second half before putting them away. Offensively, the Badgers aim to get shots at the rim, from three, and at the free-throw line. However, the offense becomes too stagnant when they aren’t hitting threes, which has been the case in some of those losses. But they’ve found some consistency over the four-game stretch, generating good looks and becoming a highly-efficient offense. Wisconsin has hit 12+ threes seven times this year, winning all seven games. Three of those have come in the last three games. Extending that to 10 threes, the Badgers have achieved the feat 12 times this year, ranking second in the Big Ten behind Illinois (13). Wisconsin will hope its defense starts to turn things around with consistency as the Big Ten slate goes on. But, on offense, they have a benchmark to win games: score 80 points.

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Following a bit of a rusty start last week against Minnesota Duluth, the No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey team traveled to St. Thomas and took care of business, posting a pair of 5-1 wins over the weekend. The Badgers suffered a tie against Duluth last weekend after a long break, conceding a goal in the first 1:33 that ultimately led to a 1-1 draw and shootout loss. That was not a mistake Wisconsin was willing to make again, as Emma Venusio started the scoring just 46 seconds into the series opener, and the Badgers never looked back. It was Wisconsin’s first visit to St. Thomas’s new home, Lee & Penny Anderson Arena. The Tommies opened the new $183 million venue last fall, bringing the hockey teams back onto campus and providing a nifty new 4,000-seat venue for the hockey program’s home games (up to 5,300 for basketball games). Wisconsin (21-1-2, 15-1-2 WCHA) must have enjoyed the view from the new venue; they consistently peppered St. Thomas goaltender Julia Minotti in game one to the tune of 40 shots, pretty evenly split between all three periods. St. Thomas (10-14-0, 5-13-0 WCHA) mustered only 14 shots on Friday, and only two in the first period as the Badgers built their lead. Saturday afternoon was more evenly distributed from a shots-on-goal perspective, but the Badgers used a roughly three-minute spurt in the middle of the first period to establish a three-goal lead following goals from Cassie Hall, Lacey Eden, and Kelly Gorbatenko. Gorbatenko has been on an absolute tear lately. After scoring only one goal in Wisconsin’s first six games, Gorbatenko has scored 16 goals in the last 18 contests and is tied with Lacey Eden atop the team with 17 goals this season. Eden recorded two goals in each game, good for four on the weekend. They were her fifth and sixth multi-goal games this season, the most on the team, and she is the first Badger with back-to-back multi-goal games this year. Cassie Hall joined Eden with a multi-goal game of her own on Saturday, now sitting at 16 goals this season. In her last nine games, Eden has posted 21 points. She’s been a steady hand and will need to continue her offensive output once Wisconsin loses its Olympic players to Team USA (and Team Czechia, in the case of Adéla Šapovalivová). The good news is that three of the four leading goal scorers on the roster will not be making the trip to Italy (Eden, Gorbatenko, Hall). The bad news? Three of the top four assist producers will (Harvey, Simms, Edwards). Mark Johnson will need to experiment with some lineups to try to mimic that production in the weeks to come. Wisconsin will soon be without its backstop, Ava McNaughton, who has been as good as they come. McNaughton has not surrendered multiple goals in a game since November 21. She has regained the NCAA goals against average lead, allowing just 1.236 goals per game, and is tied for third with a .943 save percentage. The crease has belonged to McNaughton for nearly two full years now, and she split time with Jane Gervais as a freshman. With McNaughton destined for Italy, Wisconsin will have to survive without the NCAA’s top goaltender. All signs point to freshman Rhyah Stewart being the leading replacement, though it remains to be seen if senior Chloe Baker will earn some run during McNaughton’s absence. Badger fans will get one more look at the complete roster in the regular season, as Wisconsin hosts Bemidji State next weekend and will celebrate Senior Day before Saturday’s series opener. In addition to the seniors being celebrated, I would imagine the Olympians will receive a spirited sendoff as well. Fortunately, it won’t be the last time we see them in Madison this season. The full roster should be back in time to host WCHA First Round action beginning February 27. There will, however, be four series against ranked teams between now and then, which will be a great chance to assess how deep this Badger roster truly is.

The Wisconsin Badgers have turned things around, winning their last four games as they continue forward with their Big Ten schedule. After a slower start to the season, Wisconsin has now pulled off consecutive wins over UCLA, No. 2 Michigan, Minnesota, and Rutgers, improving to 13-5 on the year and 5-2 in conference play. The Badgers started the season ranked No. 23 in the country, and were in the rankings for the first three weeks of the season as they started 4-0. But, they’ve yet to be ranked since Week 4, with this week marking the ninth straight week they’ve missed out on the AP Top 25. Well, that wait may not be for much longer. After being among the group of teams receiving votes last week, the Badgers were tied for the most votes of any team outside the Top 25 this week with St. John’s at No. 26. With wins over Penn State (8-9, 0-7 in Big Ten play) and USC (14-4, 3-4 in Big Ten), the Badgers should have a case for breaking back into the Top 25, as they’d be on a six-game win streak with a 7-2 record in the Big Ten. It was a good week for the Badgers this past week, as they beat a good Minnesota team on the road with a buzzer-beater from John Blackwell. Then, Wisconsin got off to a hot start against Rutgers, leading by 21 at halftime before squandering the lead into single digits in the second half. They ultimately won 96-87. Now, they have a road matchup with Penn State, which has lost eight of its last nine games. While they’ve played some top teams close, losing to No. 9 Michigan State, No. 20 Illinois, No. 2 Michigan, and No. 5 Purdue all by single-digits, they’ve lost by double figures in their last two games, including most recently in a 96-73 blowout against Maryland. That game is set for Thursday at 6:00 p.m. on FS1.