MADISON, Wis. -- Howard Moore is returning to Wisconsin as an assistant coach to fill a vacancy on the Badgers' staff left by the abrupt retirement of coach Bo Ryan.
Interim coach Greg Gard announced Moore's hiring Tuesday.
Moore is a former head coach at Illinois-Chicago who was working with the Big Ten Network as an analyst. Moore was an assistant for Ryan from 2005-10, serving on the same staff with Gard. Moore also played at Wisconsin in the early 1990s.
Gard called it a "home run" to hire Moore given the timing of Ryan's midseason departure.