The 2024-25 Wisconsin Badgers could be a surprise team in the Big Ten and nationally if a trio of Minnesotans can perform at a high level. Nolan Winter is back for his sophomore season, Steven Crowl will undoubtedly start every game for a fourth straight season and Daniel Freitag hopes to be one of the best freshmen in the conference.

Crowl attended Eastview High School in the Twin Cities. Winter, like past Badgers stars Tyler Wahl and Nate Reuvers, attended Lakeville North High School, which is southern suburb of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Freitag went to Breck High School after open-enrolling from Bloomington Jefferson, both of course located in the Twin Cities.

But they are just a few names from Minnesota who have helped guide the Badgers to significant success over the last 20 years. The Minnesota-to-Wisconsin pipeline really took off in former head coach Bo Ryan’s third season — 2003-04 — in Madison. Since then, there are eight players from Minnesota who have left their names in Wisconsin record books.

Taylor was a tremendous point guard who as a senior helped the Badgers go 30-6 in 2006-07 and finish No. 6 in the final AP Top 25 poll. They made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament where they were upset by UNLV as a No. 2 seed.

Leuer wound up playing in the NBA for eight seasons after sensational junior and senior seasons with the Badgers. He averaged 18.3 points and 7.2 rebounds to create an elite 1-2 punch with Jordan Taylor in 2010-11.

Taylor was a beast of a point guard who wound up being voted First Team All-Big Ten twice and an All-American second team selection as a junior in 2010-11. The Badgers went to the Sweet 16 as a No. 4 seed in 2011 and 2012. Taylor is second all time in Badgers history with 464 assists.

Bruesewitz never stuffed the stat sheet but he started nearly every game for Wisconsin during his junior and senior seasons. The Badgers went to the Sweet 16 when he was a sophomore and junior and they lost in the second round of the tourney during his senior year in 2012-13.

Berggren started all 71 games he played for the Badgers in 2011-12 and 2012-13 and averaged about 10 points per game while serving as a 7-footer to control the paint on the defensive end. As a senior, his 2.1 blocks led the Big Ten.

Davison started 157 of 161 games with the Badgers and made an instant impact as a true freshman. He was leading the team to a ranking as high as No. 4 in the nation in 2020-21 only to have that team finish 18-13 and lose in the second round of the NCAA Tournament as a No. 9 seed. In 2021-22, Davison once again led the Badgers to the second round of the tournament as a No. 3 seed before getting upset by 11th-seeded Iowa State.

Reuvers arrived in Madison and started 15 games as a true freshman and 104 in his career. No player in Wisconsin history has more blocks than Reuvers’ 184.

Wahl’s 162 games in five seasons with the Badgers is the most in program history. He scored 1,350 points and grabbed 800 rebounds in his career, though the Badgers never made it past the second round of the NCAA Tournament — even though they were a No. 3 seed in 2022 and a No. 5 seed in 2024.

Last Detroit Lions game, coach Dan Campbell forgot to give quarterback Jared Goff a game ball, as he hadn’t realized Goff finished the game a perfect 18-of-18 against the Seattle Seahawks. He wasn’t going to make the same mistake this week after the Lions’ 47-9 spanking of the Dallas Cowboys.

“I do have two game balls, and this time I wrote down some stats,” Campbell told the locker room.

He proceeded to give the balls to safety Brian Branch and Goff.

Branch finished the game with two interceptions, one forced fumble and a quarterback hit. Goff was 18-of-25 for 315 yards and three touchdowns.

But when Goff got his game ball, he gave it right back to Campbell in an awesome gesture to his head coach.

“Our fucking head coach is our fucking rock now,” Goff said. “We’re in fucking Dallas in his fucking place where he played. Game ball goes to him.”

It’s a really neat gesture, and I think it speaks to Campbell’s overall impact in the locker room. The team certainly has an emotional hole to fill following the significant injury to Aidan Hutchinson, but I don’t think anyone is anticipating the team taking a motivational step back in his absence. Campbell has a unique ability to turn negative moments into future inspiration.

Goff then proceeded to make Campbell break down the locker room. With an almost embarrassed smile on his face, Campbell accepted.

“How about a little, ‘kick ass’ on three?”

This team is special, y’all.

MILWAUKEE – A 57-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged in connection to a shooting that left two people wounded on Thursday, Oct. 3. The shooting happened as a group of people were fighting in the street. 

Anthony Mcgee is facing one count of first degree recklessly endangering safety, use of a dangerous weapon and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. 

According to the criminal complaint, officers were dispatched to the area of 29th and Clybourn around 5 p.m. on Oct. 3 for reports of a shooting.

When police arrived at the scene, they were informed that two gunshot victims had been taken to the hospital for treatment. 

The complaint says officers were able to locate video surveillance that captured the incident. The video shows two groups of individuals arguing and physically fighting in the street.

As the group is fighting, the video shows a man armed with a black handgun with an extended magazine opening fire one time into the crowd, injuring two people. That man was later identified as Anthony Mcgee. 

Following the shooting, Mcgee walked away as the crowd disbursed. 

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At that time, the video showed a second subject in red with a firearm in his hand. His firearm was taken by one of the shooting victims, who attempted to fire the gun towards Mcgee, but the gun jammed. The shooting victim attempted to rack the firearm, but he then handed it back to the second subject in red. The subject in red fired rounds as he walked away from the crowd, according to the complaint. 

Anthony Mcgee went to Milwaukee Police Department District 1 on Oct. 4 and turned himself in for the shooting that wounded two people. He turned over a black 9mm handgun with an extended magazine.

The firearm was later tested, and preliminary results matched the firearm to the recovered casing from the intersection of the scene.