Following eight wins through eight non-conference games to begin the year, the No. 11 Wisconsin men’s basketball team opens Big Ten play Tuesday night vs. Michigan.

The Badgers (8-0) have surprised many with their fast start, which includes wins over Arizona and Pittsburgh.

Led by John Tonje, Wisconsin is averaging just over 85 points per game while shooting 36 percent from the 3-point line. Tonje is averaging just under 23 with John Blackwell and Max Klesmit both in double figures.

This will be different, though, as conference games between rivals always presents a challenge. 

Michigan is 6-1, having only lost by two points to Wake Forest. They are coming off a win over Xavier, and have also stopped Virginia Tech this season.

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New alternate uniforms will be used by Wisconsin this evening. The uniforms were created with the assistance of the Badger players.

OAKLAND COUNTY, MI – The suspect in a 1999 rape at a Michigan golf course has pleaded no contest in Oakland County court, FOX 2 Detroit reports.

Kurt Alan Rillema, 52, pleaded no contest to third- and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct related to the rape of a then-22-year-old woman on Sept. 6, 1999, at Twin Lakes Golf Club in Oakland Township. In exchange, charges of first- and second-degree CSC were dropped. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 15, the report said.

RELATED: DNA evidence links man to 1999, 2000 rapes at golf courses in Michigan, Pennsylvania

Rillema was arrested on April 17, 2023, in Oakland County after genetic genealogy testing linked him to the 1999 crime and the rape of a 19-year-old woman at a Penn State University golf course on July 27, 2000.

In both cases, the victim reported the assault and a DNA sample was taken but the suspect was not identified. The cases were linked in 2004 when the samples matched in a DNA database. In 2021, the Michigan sample was sent to a lab for genetic genealogy testing, which traced the genealogy back to the 1700s and narrowed the suspect list to three brothers. A DNA sample taken from a coffee cup used by Rillema matched the sample from the 1999 rape, according to investigators.

BENTON HARBOR, MI – Treacherous travel conditions are expected to continue tonight and into Tuesday for some areas of Southwest Michigan, including the I-94 corridor, the National Weather Service said.

Lake-effect snow that could be heavy at times is forecast to continue overnight tonight into early Tuesday. A Winter Storm Warning remains in effect for Cass and Berrien counties through 10 a.m. Tuesday, and for Van Buren, Allegan and Ottawa counties until 7 a.m. Tuesday.

“Additional snow accumulations (from 2 p.m. today to 2 p.m. Tuesday) of 4 to 10+ inches are expected,” National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists at the Northern Indiana office said. “The highest snow totals are expected to be in Berrien and Cass County in Michigan, extending into far northern Indiana along I-80/I-90.”

“Significant travel impacts are likely this evening and Tuesday morning. Currently, our thinking is that the Tuesday morning commute will be treacherous, especially on US 20, I-80/I-90, and I-94. Roads will be snow covered and visibilities will be sharply reduced where snow is falling.”

Low visibility was already an issue today on westbound I-94, which authorities had to shut down after a “whiteout” crash involving three semitrailers and 14 other vehicles. One person was critically injured in the collisions, which occurred just before 1 p.m. near the Hartford exit in Van Buren County.