May 5: The Wisconsin women's basketball team will hit the road next year for the third annual Big Ten Conference/Atlantic Coast Conference Challenge. The Badgers travel to Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, Dec. 3 to take on North Carolina State for just the second time in school history. Wisconsin is 1-1 all-time in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.[1]
July 28: Senior Teah Gant, junior Alana Trotter and sophomore Anya Covington have been named tri-captains of the University of Wisconsin women's basketball team for the upcoming season.[2]
Nov. 11: The Big Ten and Big 12 Conferences announced the formation of an annual inter-conference challenge for women's basketball. The challenge will span at least two years and will begin in the fall of 2010. The series will feature a home-and-home format over the initial two-year agreement, and each of the Big 12's teams will play in each Challenge, while one Big Ten team, Wisconsin, will play two Challenge games each year.[3]
The Badgers will compete in the BTI Tip-Off Tournament from November 27 – 29.