INSIDE
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
BY DIANE NORDSTROM
@BADGERWBB
SCHEDULE (4-2, 0-0)
LAST FOUR
Nov. 17 Northern Illinois W, 71-51
Nov. 21 at Alabama
L, 62-70
Nov. 29 vs. Mercer *
W, 77-72
Nov. 30 Vanderbilt *
L, 69-81
* at Vanderbilt Tournament
UP NEXT
Thursday
Saturday
Dec. 10
Dec. 13
Badgers find their fight at
Vanderbilt tournament
UW returns home for Big Ten/ACC Challenge
he Badgers found their
fight at the Vanderbilt
Thanksgiving Tournament last weekend. Wisconsin came back from a 16-point
first-half deficit against the
Commodores to tie the game
in the second half, but UW
couldn't hold on as Vandy ran
away with the win.
"I did like the fight I saw
in the kids in that Vanderbilt
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game," UW head coach Bobbie
Kelsey said. "They could have
folded it up and called it a day,
but they didn't.
"We would have liked to
have won the game, obviously,
but it was a different type of
body language in that game as
opposed to the Alabama loss."
UW returns home on Thursday to face Boston College in
the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
Boston College
7 p.m.
at Marquette
7 p.m.
#24 Gonzaga
7 p.m.
at Washington 9:30 p.m.
SCHEDULE PICKS UP
● The month December means that Wisconsin's schedule kicks up a notch.
Starting with last Saturday's game
at Vanderbilt, four of five opponents
competed in the postseason in 2013.
Included in that list are NCAA tournament participants Vanderbilt and
Gonzaga, as well as WNIT teams Marquette and Washington. The Zags are
currently ranked 25th in the Associated Press poll, while both Vanderbilt
and Marquette are receiving votes.
WURTZ NAMED ALL-TOURNAMENT
● Fifth-year senior Taylor Wurtz was
named to the all-tournament team at
the Vanderbilt Thanksgiving Tournament last weekend. It was the second
all-tournament selection of her career.
The 6-foot-0 guard averaged 21
points, 10.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists
per game over the weekend. Wurtz
netted 24 points, shooting 8-of-14
(.571), against Mercer. She also added
14 rebounds, just one short of her career high. Against Vanderbilt, Wurtz
scored 18 points while adding seven
rebounds and five assists.