Start time set for North Carolina game

Wisconsin?s home football game with North Carolina set for Sept. 20 will start at 11 a.m., the Big Ten Conference office announced Monday. The game will be televised on ESPN.

The Badgers and Tar Heels will be meeting for the first time ever that day. The game is Wisconsin?s final contest on the non-conference schedule this season.

Anthony Davis and the UW football team climbed two spots in the latest ESPN/USA TODAY Coaches? poll and four spots in the AP poll; the Badgers are now ranked No. 15 and No. 14 in the two major polls, respectively. UW improved its record to 2-0 after its 48-31 defeat of Akron Saturday. Wisconsin is one of four Big Ten teams currently ranked in the top 25.

The UW volleyball team dropped one spot to No. 25 in the latest USA TODAY / American Volleyball Coaches Association poll. The Badgers lost to No. 7 Pepperdine in the championship game of last weekend?s Texas State Premier tournament. The team will return home to host the Inn Towner Invitational this weekend.

After a stellar weekend, women?s soccer co-captain Jenny Kundert has been chosen as Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week. The senior forward sparked the Badger attack in a pair of wins, scoring three goals on just six shots. Kundert, a Madison native and West High graduate, recorded two of UW?s goals in a 3-1 win at Northern Illinois last Friday. She followed up the effort with a game-winning goal in the Badgers? win over previously undefeated Kansas 3-2 Sunday.

Kundert leads the Badgers with three goals, two assists and eight points this season. Her six points last week moved her into ninth place on UW?s career scoring list with 56 points.

Jon Turcott, a senior on the Wisconsin men?s golf team, has chosen to forego his final season of eligibility for the Badgers and has opted to leave school to pursue a career in professional golf.

?I feel very excited for Jon,? head coach Jim Schuman said. ?It was an easy decision for Jon coming off of a good summer where he won the State Open. Everyone at Wisconsin and on our team wishes him the best of luck.?

Turcott, a Middleton native, redshirted the 2002-03 season after spending three seasons as one of the Badgers? top golfers. He led the team as a junior with a 73.87 average and earned the UW?s top finish in eight of 10 meets. A 2002 NCAA qualifier, where he tied for 62nd (77-74-75 — 226), Turcott also established a University Ridge collegiate 54-hole record in 2002 after earning a medal at the team?s annual Badger Invitational with a 69-68-70 — 207 on the weekend.

Named to the all-state first team three times while playing for Middleton High School, Turcott won the WIAA state championship as a sophomore and placed second as a senior. The three-time Badger letterwinner won the 2003 State Open by eight strokes and was the only participant to break par. He was the first amateur to win the event since Steve Stricker, currently on the PGA Tour, did in 1987.

-compiled from staff reports