INSIDE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
BY DIANE NORDSTROM
@BadgerWBBall
SCHEDULE (8-7, 0-2)
Last Five
Dec. 23 at Green Bay
L, 38-53
Dec. 28 vs. Delaware State*W, 83-54
Dec. 29 at Miami*
L, 40-67
Jan. 2
at #25 Nebraska
L, 52-70
Sunday Minnesota
2 p.m.
This Week
Thursday RV Iowa
Sunday
at RV Michigan
7 p.m.
1 p.m.
Next Five
Jan. 17 at #8 Penn State
Jan. 20 RV Ohio State
Jan. 24 at RV Iowa
Jan. 31 #8 Penn State
Feb. 3 Illinois
6 p.m.
2 p.m.
7 p.m.
7 p.m.
2 p.m.
* at Miami Invitational, Miami, Fla.
Brown will miss season
Badgers will play with
nine for rest of season
Injuries, transfers shorten Badgers' bench
D
ue to two season-ending
injuries and two players transferring early in the
season, the Badgers will have
only nine players available the
rest of the 2012-13 season.
But that hasn't stopped the
team from battling.
"This is what we've been
dealt," said head coach Bobbie Kelsey. "We're going to
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work with it. Just work with
what you do have and worry
about that."
Kelsey hopes this experience will aid next year's team.
"I think this will help us in
the future," she said. "It's benefitting some of the ones that
have not had quite the playing
time ... They're getting that
now."
» Sophomore AnnMarie Brown has
joined senior Taylor Wurtz in missing the remainder of the 2012-13
season due to injury.
Brown tore her right ACL in practice on Dec. 18 and had surgery to
repair the knee on Jan. 4. Wurtz,
who elected to take a medical redshirt due to a re-occurring back
problem, also had surgery last week.
Both players are expected to return
for the 2013-14 season.
Stephen ranks in the Big Ten
» Senior Tiera Stephen ranks second
in the Big Ten with 2.9 steals per
game. The 5-foot-7 guard is also
fifth in the league with 5.5 assists
per game.
Stephen tied her career best with
nine assists against Florida Atlantic. She has six or more assists in 10
games this, including the last four.
