BY THE NUMBERS
101
WOMEN���S BASKETBALL
With four blocks against Northwestern on Feb. 23, junior Cassie
Rochel eclipsed the 100 career
blocks mark. The 6-foot-4 post
player now has 101 blocks in
her career, ranking 10th on
UW���s all-time list.
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MEN���S BASKETBALL
With a win at Northwestern last week, Wisconsin
clinched a winning record in Big Ten play for the
13th-consecutive season, the second-longest
active streak among BCS teams (Kansas, 23).
.180
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16 �� VARSITY
FEB R UA RY 28, 2013
SOFTBALL
Wisconsin���s pitchers held
opponents to a .180 batting
average over the weekend at
the Diamond 9 Tournament in
Orlando, Fla. Meghan McIntosh
held opponents to a team-low
.163 average, Taylor-Paige Stewart did not allow an earned run in
10.0 innings of work and Cassandra
Darrah became the first UW pitcher
since 2001 to record a no-hitter.
MEN���S TRACK & FIELD
The men���s track and field team emerged from a wild 2013 Big Ten Indoor
Championships with its 26th overall championship under 30th-year head coach
Ed Nuttycombe. UW scored 90 points to edge runner-up Illinois (87.5)and
come out on top in a race for the title that saw the top five teams (the Badgers,
Illinois, Penn State, Nebraska and Minnesota) separated by just four points.
The Badgers moved up to No. 4 in this week���s national rankings.