Badgers venture into Big Ten country
December 21, 2008 | Women's Basketball
The next chapter of the Wisconsin women's basketball season begins Monday night when the Badgers kick off Big Ten Conference play. Wisconsin hosts Iowa at 7 p.m. to open the conference season. Tickets are still available for the game and for any Big Ten game and can be purchased groupCode=W&linkID=wisc&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode="> --> here .
If you're unable to make it to the game Monday, there are plenty of opportunities to follow the Badgers as they search for their 11th-straight win. To watch the game, log onto www.BigTenNetwork.com for the live Web stream. Mike Heller will also be on the call on WTSO 1070 AM or online at Yahoo!Radio . You can also catch all the action by logging onto the UWBadgers.com blogid=316"> --> Game Day Blog and by viewing live stats . Your one-stop link to all of these Web sites can be found on the women's basketball sportid=135"> --> Game Day page .
The Badgers' 10-1 non-conference record was the best mark of any Big Ten school this season. Wisconsin opened the 2008-09 campaign on the road with a loss against South Dakota State but since then, the Badgers rattled off 10-straight wins, which ties for the fourth-longest winning streak in the country and is the second-longest winning streak in school history. Wisconsin is also a perfect 6-0 at the Kohl Center so far this season.
Iowa finished the non-conference season 7-4 after defeating Drake, 71-53 Saturday. The Hawkeyes are 1-2 against ranked competition this season, defeating then-No. 22 Iowa State but lost to then-No. 3 California during the Reef Division of the Paradise Jam and then-No. 12 Duke on the road. Iowa was picked to finish fourth in the Big Ten by conference coaches and fifth by the media in the preseason poll. Two starters return off last year's team that tied for first in the conference with a 12-5 record.
