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Instant Classics: Click on the "Instant Classics" tab above for more. February 6 - In front of a school-record crowd of 55,031 screaming fans, the No. 3 Wisconsin men’s hockey team defeated the No. 19 Michigan Wolverines in the Culver’s Camp Randall Hockey Classic. The victory -- which happened in front of the second-largest crowd to ever watch a collegiate hockey game -- came on a pair of third-period power-play goals by junior defenseman Brendan Smith. Earlier in the day, the No. 9 Wisconsin women’s hockey team defeated the Bemidji State Beavers 6-1 in the first ever outdoor game for the Wisconsin women. The Badgers played in front of an NCAA-record crowd of 8,263 fans in the second-ever women’s hockey outdoor showdown. January 23 - Wisconsin Badger defensive end turned linebacker, O'Brien Schofield, intercepted a pass and was named the defensive MVP of the East-West Shrine Game from the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. Schofield, a defensive end at Wisconsin, was moved to linebacker for the game. Schofield recorded three solo tackles and a first-half interception for the victorious East squad. On the West team’s first possession of the game, he intercepted BYU quarterback Max Hall to thwart the drive at the East 35-yard line. Schofield added two solo tackles on the West team’s first drive of the second half then made his final stop on punt coverage in the fourth quarter. The East scored in the final seconds of the game for a 13-10 win.
Wisconsin Sports Minute For This WeekFeb 7, 1970 Wisconsin’s Clarence Sherrod scored 30 points against Michigan State. It was the second time in three games Sherrod hit for 30. The very next game Sherrod would score a career high 35 against Iowa making him the first Badger to hit back to back 30 point games. Wisconsin beat Michigan State 89-79. Feb 8, 1936 San Francisco University running back Russ Letlow was the first number one draft pick in Green Bay Packer history. He would play from 1936-42 and again in 1946. Feb 9, 1974 The Wisconsin Badger men’s basketball team gunned down the Iowa Hawkeyes 113-87 in the highest scoring Big Ten game ever for the Badgers. Feb 10, 1992 The Green Bay Packers acquired Brett Favre in a trade with the Atlanta Falcons sending a first-round pick to the Falcons for the little-used rookie from Southern Mississippi. Favre emerged as the Packers’ quarterback after Don Majkowski went down with an ankle injury in the third game of the 1992 season, stepping in and rallying Green Bay to a 24-23 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on a sunny Sept. 20 at Lambeau Field. Favre started the next game – a 17-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers at Lambeau Field on Sept. 27, 1992. No one else has started at quarterback for the Packers until Favre retired after the 2007 season. Feb 11, 1976 Mequon resident and Madison LaFollette grad Peter Mueller won Olympic Gold in the 1,000 meter speed skating race in Innsbruck, Austria. Feb 12, 1955 Marquette defeated Bowling Green 101-56 and then two nights later downed Detroit 100-81 for the only time in school history that Marquette scored back to back 100 point games. Two nights after that (2/16) they almost made it three beating Bradley 93-83. Feb
13, 1977 Milwaukee hosted its first NBA All-Star game. The
West beat the East 125-124. Philadelphia's Julius Erving was MVP with 30 points.
As a first-year man in the NBA, "Dr. J" threw in 30 points and posted
a game-high 12 rebounds as his East team lost to the West, 125-124. In this
first year of the merged NBA-ABA, Erving did something he had never done in his
five appearances in the ABA All-Star Game-he won the MVP Award. For more history click here
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