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CONTENTS JANUARY 11, 2017 ▪ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 21 DAVID STLUKA DAVID UNCOMMON DRIVE It’s hard to find a comparison for Ethan Happ. The guard-turned-power forward is having a breakout season for UW thanks to a set of skills and style of play unique for a player his size. DAVID STLUKA DAVID FEATURES WOMEN’S HOCKEY IN [FOCUS] FILL THE BOWL The week's best photos Saturday’s ‘Fill the Bowl’ event to BY THE NUMBERS pack the Kohl Center is a ticket to Facts and figures on UW nationally-ranked women’s hockey and helping the community too. WHAT TO WATCH Where to catch the Badgers LUCAS AT LARGE ASK THE BADGERS Most anticipated in 2017 QB DUO PAYS OFF BADGERING Coach Jonathan Tsipis (WBB) Wisconsin’s tandem of quarterbacks proved to be a successful gamble GREG ANDERSON and provided UW’s Alex Hornibrook INSIDE FOOTBALL crucial experience for 2017. Ramczyk ready for NFL leap -SCROLL FOR MORE- INSIDE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Maximizing playing time Wisconsin Athletic Communications Kellner Hall, 1440 Monroe St. Madison, WI 53711 VIEW ALL ISSUES Brian Lucas Director of Athletic Communications Jessica Burda Director of Digital Content Managing Editor Julia Hujet Editor/Designer Mike Lucas Senior Writer Andy Baggot Writer Matt Lepay Columnist Chris Hall, Jerry Mao, Brandon Spiegel Video Production Max Kelley Advertising Drew Pittner-Smith Distribution Contributors Paul Capobianco, Kelli Grashel, A.J. Harrison, Brandon Harrison, Patrick Herb, Brian Mason, Diane Nordstrom Photography David Stluka, Neil Ament, Greg Anderson, Bob Campbell, The Players Tribune, Cal Sport Media, Icon Sportswire Cover Photo: Steve Gotter Problems or Accessibility Issues? [email protected] © 2017 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved worldwide. LUCAS AT LARGE BY MIKE LUCAS ▪ UWBADGERS.COM Quarterback tandem a successful gamble GREG ANDERSON NEIL AMENT DAVID STLUKA DAVID Alex Hornibrook Bart Houston art Houston was singing Attaching a fitttting postscript season, when both played, they in the shower — singing to an 11-win season — only the combined to complete 62 per- Bthe praises of a Rudyard sixth in school history, but the cent of their passes for 937 Kipling observation in a shower second in the last three years yards and six touchdowns. They of confetti on the floor of AT&T — Houston proposed, “The were picked off just twice during Stadium. It’s doubtful whether strength of the wolf is the pack this stretch and unbeaten as a anyone in Cotton Bowl history and the strength of the pack is tandem. They saved their best has made a postgame reference the wolf.” for last, the Cotton Bowl, going to Kipling, a literary Hall of Fam- Individual players meshing a combined 13-of-14 for 178 er as a poet/author during the their strengths and weakness- yards with one TD and no picks. late 19th and early 20th centu- es in the name of harmony is Houston was 11-of-12 for 159 ries. always timely and telling, espe- yards; Hornibrook was 2-for-2 But following Wisconsin’s vic- cially in light of another famous for 19 and the touchdown. It tory over Western Michigan, quotation — or overused cliché rivaled their efficiency against the 23-year-old Houston broke — depending on your perspec- another Mid-American Confer- out some Kipling “smack” with tive. This one is credited to an ence opponent, Akron, in ear- or without any knowledge of its old college football coach, the ly September, a 54-10 win at genesis. If anyone could sound late Jess Neely, who once ut- Camp Randall Stadium. Houston in character quoting from an an- tered, “If you have two quarter- was 15-of-22 for 231 yards and imated Disney movie — The Jun- backs, you don’t have any.” two scores; Hornibrook was gle Book was based on Kipling’s Houston and Alex Hornibrook 5-of-5 for 61 and one TD. Com- works — it would be Houston, would beg to differ. Over the bined: 20-of-27 for 292 yards the California native. fittnal six games of the regular and three touchdowns. LUCAS AT LARGE PAGE 1 OF 3 LUCAS AT LARGE BY MIKE LUCAS ▪ UWBADGERS.COM Houston + Hornibrook = 0? Hornibrook said as much after Prep and West Chester, Penn- Obviously not. the Western Michigan game. sylvania; Karé Lyles, a 6-foot, Houston + Hornibrook = 7-0. “There are a bunch of things 214-pound freshman redshirt “I thought we’d get a lot out that helped me out this year that from Scottsdale, Arizona; and of it,” Wisconsin head coach I can grow from — whether it Jack Coan, a 6-3, 190-pound Paul Chryst said Monday of his was good or bad,” he admitted. incoming freshman and early en- tag-team quarterbacks. “I didn’t “In the offseason, I’m going to rollee from Sayville High School know how they would both ap- watch myself (on tape) from the and Long Island, New York. proach it and take it. But I feel whole year and sit down with Coan originally committed to now what I felt all along: both Coach Chryst and see what I can Notre Dame — to play lacrosse. earned the right to play. They improve on. Playing in those big Once he opted to focus on foot- gave us some things and they games was a little different than ball, he had to sort through of- made it work through their what I was used to.” fers from Miami (Florida) and six preparation. I didn’t think we As of now, the Badgers will Big Ten schools, including Mich- were necessarily settling when have three tendered quar- igan and Nebraska. “You have to we did it.” terbacks on their spring ros- fast-track him so he gets some- So he’s not buying Neely’s ter: Hornibrook; the 6-foot-4, thing out of the spring,” Chryst math? 219-pound lefty from Malvern said. “Alex did a good job of that “It depends on who the two ▼ TAP TO WATCH - Top 10 Offensive Plays of 2016 (quarterbacks) are,” Chryst said, “more than anything.” With Houston’s departure, Hornibrook, who started nine Big Ten games, is now front and (behind the) center. Only Dar- rell Bevell, now the Seattle Se- ahawks offensive coordinator, passed for more yards (1,479) as a UW freshman than Horn- ibrook, who threw for 1,262. After being picked off fittve times in the fittrst three league games, he threw just one interception his last seven appearances (85 passes). Looking ahead to spring prac- tice, Chryst said, “It’s a tremen- dous time for him, he can grow in so many areas. There is truth to (the saying) ‘the best learning is through experience.’ That’s a real thing and he has a ton of STLUKA DAVID experience that he can draw upon.” LUCAS AT LARGE PAGE 2 OF 3 LUCAS AT LARGE BY MIKE LUCAS ▪ UWBADGERS.COM his fittrst spring here (as an early sented him with Wayne’s class enrollee) getting some meaning- “I THOUGHT WE’D GET A LOT ring from Wisconsin after his ful work.” OUT OF IT,” CHRYST SAID OF death. During the early stage With Hornibrook, Lyles (who HIS TAG-TEAM QUARTERBACKS. of his prep career, Souza was a was unable to compete as an “I DIDN’T KNOW HOW THEY quarterback and threw passes to early enrollee last spring be- WOULD BOTH APPROACH IT Buckley. The Badgers recruited cause he was rehabbing from an AND TAKE IT. BUT I FEEL NOW Souza as a dual-threat athlete injury) and Coan, the Badgers WHAT I FELT ALL ALONG: BOTH who could and did play on both are short on numbers and ex- EARNED THE RIGHT TO PLAY.” sides of the ball as a defensive perience at quarterback. It’s no back and receiver. secret that they would like to footnote to Houston’s fittve-year As fate would have it, Buck- bolster the position group, if pos- run. ley’s two boys, Alex and Andrew, sible, during this recruiting cycle. At the team’s banquet, he re- were utilized the same way in Asked if depth was a concern, ceived the Wayne Souza Coach- high school. Both attended De Chryst replied, “It’s a reality.” es Appreciation award that La Salle, an elite program in So are the early departures of annually goes to the offensive Concord, California. Both caught left tackle Ryan Ramczyk and player who has best contributed passes from Houston, a fact that outside linebacker T.J. Watt. to the program in multiple fac- was not lost on Scott Buckley Both are headed for the NFL ets, on and off the fitteld. Souza, when Bart’s dad, Guy, texted draft with eligibility remaining. a former UW wide receiver, was him with word that his son had Neither was a surprise. As far as the victim of a drowning acci- been recognized as this season’s fittlling those voids in the lineup, dent in Lake Monona the sum- Souza award winner. or at least identifying potential mer prior to his senior year, late “Scott could not contain his replacements, Chryst said, “You July of 1979. He was 20. emotions,” Guy said. fittnd out where everyone is at Scott Buckley was one of Buckley never got a chance to in the spring and then you see Souza’s closest friends in New say goodbye to his friend. where you’ve got to go with it.” Bedford, Massachusetts — so But this helped bring some Meanwhile, there is one fittnal close that the Souza family pre- closure. ▪ ICON SPORTSWIRE ICON LUCAS AT LARGE PAGE 3 OF 3 ASK THE BADGERS WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD? TO IN 2017? BRADLEY K.

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