BY THE NUMBERS
.889
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
In pulling down 19 rebounds
in the Badgers' win over Illinois in
Champaign last week, Taylor Wurtz
set a career high for boards and
matched the fourth-best singlegame total in UW history. Those
19 rebounds also tie Wurtz for the
best mark by a Big Ten player
this season.
MEN'S HOCKEY
Junior goaltender Joel
Rumpel leads the nation in
winning percentage at .889
by posting an 8-1-0 record so far
for the Badgers. Rumpel, who
has won six consecutive starts,
also ranks 10th nationally with a
1.93 goals-against average and
has posted a .928 save
percentage.
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WOMEN'S HOCKEY
The No. 2-ranked Badgers enter
their weekend series with No. 4 North
Dakota riding a 16-game unbeaten
streak, the longest of any team in
the country. The Badgers' current run
marks the program's longest unbeaten stretch since a 19-game streak
that spanned the 2010-11
and 2011-12 seasons.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
In earning his second-consecutive Big Ten Freshman of the
Week honor on Monday, Nigel Hayes
became just the sixth player in Big
Ten history to earn back-to-back freshman awards from the league, joining
Michigan's Nik Stauskas (2012-13), Trey
Burke (2011-12) and Tim Hardaway
Jr. (2010-11), as well as Indiana's Cody
Zeller (2011-12) and Ohio State's
Jared Sullinger (2010-11).
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