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MADISON -- Lorayne Ritt remembers attending the Wisconsin Badgers at their first bowl game in 1953.

LINCOLN -- Ryan Evans scored a career-high 22 points and No. 11 Wisconsin defeated injury-plagued Nebraska 64-40 in the Cornhuskers' inaugural Big Ten game Tuesday night.The Huskers closed within five points early in the second half, but the Badgers went on a 27-5 run to put the game out of reach.Jordan Taylor added 15 points as the Badgers (12-2, 1-0) won their ninth consecutive Big Ten opener.Toney McCray led the Huskers (8-4, 0-1) with 16 points and nine rebounds.The season-high crowd of 10,812 at the Devaney Sports Center began filing out with 5 minutes left and the Badgers leading by 23 points.Wisconsin extended its streak of holding opponents to 65 points or less to 18 games.

PASADENA -- A former Bucky Badger is jumping into the Rose Bowl festivities, looking to put a new spin on an old tradition.

MILWAUKEE -- Wisconsin sports fans have a lot to celebrate after the Badgers defeated Michigan State this weekend and are headed to the Rose Bowl, and the Packers maintained their perfect record with a win over the New York Giants this weekend, along with clinching the division championship Sunday.

MILWAUKEE -- The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning fans of the Wisconsin Badgers football team to be careful of ticket scams.Craigslist, the online classified ad site, and eBay, the online auction site, already have hundreds of listings for Rose Bowltickets.

WAUKESHA CO. -- Wisconsin Badgers faithful are now scrambling to count their pennies to see if they can afford a trip to Pasadena, California.

WEST ALLIS -- Fans of the Wisconsin Badgers want to make sure they're properly decked out when they cheer on their team in the Rose Bowl.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- This time, Wisconsin got the stop it needed against Michigan State -- and a big break to wrap up its second straight Big Ten crown.Montee Ball scored four touchdowns, including a 7-yard score with 3:45 left in Saturday night's inaugural conference championship game, giving the 15th-ranked Badgers a 42-39 come-from-behind victory over No. 11 Michigan State.Wisconsin (11-2) now heads to the Rose Bowl where it will face Pac-12 champion Oregon on Jan. 2.The Badgers turned the tables on Michigan State (10-3), which won the first meeting in October on a last-second Hail Mary pass.On Saturday, it was the Badgers who scored late, forced a punt and managed to run out the clock when the Isaiah Lewis was called for running into the kicker, giving the Badgers a first down with 1:37 left in the game and Michigan State out of timeouts.Ball was spectacular early, topping 100 yards in the first quarter, and efficient late, scoring twice in the fourth quarter to rally the Badgers.

The Wisconsin Badgers are headed to Indianapolis Saturday to take on Michigan State in the Big Ten Championship game, and the good news for fans is, you can get tickets for cheap, or even free, and that's just the beginning!

The No. 15 Wisconsin Badgers are headed to Indianapolis this weekend to take on No. 11 Michigan State in the Big Ten Championship game, and for those fans looking to support the team in Indy, there are tickets available, and websites offering travel packages for the game.Ticket King is a Milwaukee ticket broker, and they say they're already getting calls for tickets to Saturday's big game, and they expect demand will only increase as we get closer to game day. "It wasn't determined until this past Saturday whether they were going to bein the game or not, so a lot of people weren't really planning on making the trip, and now they are making those decisions," Ticket King President John Lamoreaux said.The Wisconsin Alumni Association has organized a bus trip to Saturday's game.

The Wisconsin Badgers crush Penn State at home, by a final of 45-7 on Saturday.

Jared Berggren scored a career-high 21 points and Wisconsin again used a suffocating defense to pave the way to an easy win, beating Missouri-Kansas City 77-31 Tuesday night.The Badgers (4-0) came into the game giving up an NCAA-best 35 points a game while allowing their opponents to shoot just 28 percent, and the Kangaroos (1-4) were held under both marks.

Darius Johnson-Odom scored 20 points and Jae Crowder had a tiebreaking dunk with 1:09 left, leading No. 16 Marquette to a 59-57 victory over Norfolk State in the Paradise Jam championship game Monday night.The Golden Eagles (5-0) never trailed and Johnson-Odom was selected tournament MVP after he scored at least 20 points in each game.Crowder sparked a 10-2 run for Marquette with consecutive 3-pointers.

The Wisconsin Badgers came back after being down 10 points at the half to put the Fighting Illinin away.

Montee Ball set the conference's single-season touchdown record and 16th-ranked Wisconsin trampled Minnesota 42-13 on Saturday to keep Paul Bunyan's Axe for the eighth straight year."Back in the driver's seat now.