Back to the Wisconsin Badgers Newsfeed

Men’s basketball: No. 10 Wisconsin looks to ride hot streak into Illinois

Ethan Happ is no Drake, but the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s redshirt sophomore forward can now say he’s gone “back-to-back.”

Happ was named Big Ten Player of the Week for the second week in a row Monday, making him the first Wisconsin player to accomplish that since Mike Wilkinson in 2005.

Happ powered No. 10 Wisconsin (18-3, 7-1 Big Ten) to an overtime win over Rutgers Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was a dominant performance, in which he scored a career-high 32 points, grabbed six rebounds and recorded four steals inside one of basketball’s meccas.