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Varsity - January 16, 2014

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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. 6 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. ›› 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). 20 // VARSITY January 16, 2014 19›› 16

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