Wisconsin residence video games persevering with as deliberate regardless of excessive chilly

• Despite excessive chilly and sophistication cancellations in Wisconsin, Badgers residence sports activities video games will proceed as scheduled.
• The athletic division encourages followers to take security precautions, comparable to dressing warmly and arriving early.
• Scheduled occasions embody males’s and girls’s hockey, males’s basketball and males’s tennis.

MADISON – The excessive chilly throughout the state of Wisconsin is excessive sufficient to cancel courses, however not the Wisconsin Badgers’ residence sports activities video games.

The Badgers’ video games on Jan. 23-25 stay scheduled as deliberate, the athletic division mentioned in a press launch.

Those embody males’s hockey video games on Jan. 23 and Jan. 24, ladies’s hockey video games on Jan. 24 and Jan. 25 and most notably the lads’s basketball recreation on Jan. 25 towards USC. Men’s tennis additionally has a house match on Jan. 23.

Wind chills are anticipated to be between minus-30 and minus-40 in Madison in the course of the day Friday, Jan. 23, according to the National Weather Service. Wind chills are then anticipated to be between minus-5 and minus-15 on Saturday, Jan. 24.

“Fans are encouraged to take proper safety precautions when traveling to Badger venues, like dressing for the weather and arriving early to avoid lines,” UW Athletics mentioned in a press launch.

Wisconsin sports activities schedule

• Jan. 23 at 3 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Chicago State at Nielsen Tennis Stadium
• Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. – Men’s hockey vs. Penn State on the Kohl Center
• Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. – Women’s hockey vs. Bemidji State at LaBahn Arena
• Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m. – Men’s hockey vs. Penn State on the Kohl Center
• Jan. 25 at 11 a.m. – Women’s hockey vs. Bemidji State at LaBahn Arena
• Jan. 25 at 3 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. USC on the Kohl Center