Author: Jon Stillman

Jon is a sports writer who has created content for Wisconsin Sports Heroics and Gridiron Heroics since 2022.

All good things come to end, and the Purdue basketball program undoubtedly understands that axiom at the commencement of this basketball season.  The great news about the Boilermakers’ season in 2023-24 was that head coach Matt Painter’s crew reached the NCAA Final Four for the first time since 1980. In fact, they reached the title game but unfortunately ran into the UConn Huskies, succumbing to Dan Hurley’s squad 75-60. However, the bad news is the Purdue basketball corps will find out what life is like without arguably their most celebrated and accomplished player in their history, Zach Edey. The question…

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With only two returning starters from last year’s 22-14 squad, the Wisconsin Badgers basketball team begins their new 2024-25 season on Wednesday, October 30th, with an exhibition game against the UW-River Falls Falcons at the Kohl Center in Madison. Wednesday will mark the 20th time a preseason game between an in-state WIAC opponent and the Badgers has occurred. In addition, the game is for a wonderful cause as it will be the 8th-annual Cancer Awareness Game for the Garding Against Cancer foundation, which was founded in 2016 by head coach Greg Gard and his wife, Michelle. As of May…

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