Talkin’ Badgers: A Wisconsin Badgers Football and Basketball Podcast

With recent injuries to NBA Draft prospects John Blackwell and Nolan Winter, Wisconsin basketball could be shorthanded when facing the in-state Milwaukee Panthers. As Big Ten play looms, the Wisconsin Badgers cannot afford to slip up, no matter their injury situation.If Blackwell and Winter are unable to play, UW will quickly have to find the secondary scoring options it has been lacking. Against...

All wins on an NCAA Tournament resume are good wins. But a win, in a presumably hostile environment, against a top-20 team would be a great win on Wisconsin basketball‘s NCAA Tournament resume.The No. 24 Wisconsin Badgers are out west in Salt Lake City, Utah, to face the No. 9 BYU Cougars. Although the team that cut UW’s March Madness run short less than eight months ago is above Wisconsin in the...

When the Wisconsin Badgers took to Barry Alvarez Field inside Camp Randall Stadium against the Washington Huskies, Luke Fickell had earned three votes of confidence from Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh. Still, he had yet to earn one from Badgers fans. Under Fickell’s stewardship, Wisconsin football had lost six consecutive games, had not beaten a Big Ten foe in over a year, and was 0-9...

A third of the college football regular season remains unplayed, but University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh has seen enough. McIntosh has decided that, even if Wisconsin football finishes 2-10, Luke Fickell will be the Wisconsin Badgers’ head coach in 2026.BadgerNotes columnist Seamus Rohrer, who declared on September 20th, 2025, that it was time “to move on from Luke...

A third of the college football regular season remains unplayed, but University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh has seen enough. McIntosh has decided that, even if Wisconsin football finishes 2-10, Luke Fickell will be the Wisconsin Badgers’ head coach in 2026.BadgerNotes columnist Seamus Rohrer, who declared on September 20th, 2025, that it was time “to move on from Luke...

Four games remain on the 2025 Wisconsin football schedule, but you would not know it from the headlines coming out of Madison. On a bombshell news day, University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh quashed any speculation on Luke Fickell’s job security, indicating that the Badgers head coach will return to the sideline of Barry Alvarez Field in 2026.“Coach Fickell has had my...

It has not yet translated to wins on the field, but Wisconsin football head coach Luke Fickell believes his team is moving in the right direction. “Internally, we are seeing a growth; it’s a little bit harder to see externally,” Fickell said two-thirds of the way through his third season at the helm of the Wisconsin Badgers. Week-to-week, month-to-month, season-to-season, that internal growth has...

Bye weeks in college football are well known for creating more opportunities for up-and-coming talent. With six consecutive losses in the rearview mirror, Wisconsin football head coach Luke Fickell seems to be leaving no stone unturned. At his weekly press conference, Fickell said true freshman Carter Smith is ‘in the mix’ to start this week against the Washington Huskies.The potential switch...

With the Wisconsin basketball preseason finally in the rearview mirror, the Wisconsin Badgers play a meaningful game tonight inside the Kohl Center. Before UW takes on the Campbell Fighting Camels, get caught up on what we know about the season to come with Talkin’ Badgers.With the expectation of being a team to finish in the top half of a loaded Big Ten, Badgers head coach Greg Gard will be...

With the Wisconsin basketball preseason finally in the rearview mirror, the Wisconsin Badgers play a meaningful game tonight inside the Kohl Center. Before UW takes on the Campbell Fighting Camels, get caught up on what we know about the season to come with Talkin’ Badgers.With the expectation of being a team to finish in the top half of a loaded Big Ten, Badgers head coach Greg Gard will be...