Twitter/@BadgerWrestling Wisconsin 133-pounder Seth Gross.
The No. 12 Wisconsin Badgers wrestling team will host the No. 17 Northern Iowa Panthers on Thursday for each team’s regular season finale.
The match is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. ET and will be televised on the Big Ten Network. But if you don’t have cable or don’t have BTN, you can watch a live stream of Northern Iowa vs Wisconsin on your computer, phone, Roku, Fire TV Stick, or other streaming device via one of the following cable-free, live-TV streaming services:
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FuboTV
Big Ten Network is one of the 95-plus live TV channels included in the main FuboTV bundle, which comes with a free seven-day trial:
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If you can’t watch live, FuboTV comes with 30 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as a 72-hour look-back feature, which will allow you to watch the match on-demand within three days of its conclusion, even if you don’t record it.
AT&T TV Now
AT&T TV Now (formerly DirecTV Now) offers six different channel bundles. Of those, the “Max,” “Choice,” “Xtra,” and “Ultimate” bundles all include the Big Ten Network, and the “Max” bundle comes with a free seven-day trial:
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If you can’t watch live, AT&T TV Now — no matter what channel package you choose — comes with included cloud DVR.
Hulu With Live TV
Hulu With Live TV comes with Hulu’s extensive on-demand library of TV shows and movies and 60-plus live TV channels, including Big Ten Network:
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If you can’t watch live, Hulu With Live TV comes with 50 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as the option to upgrade to “Enhanced Cloud DVR,” which gives you 200 hours of space and the ability to fast-forward through commercials.
Northern Iowa vs Wisconsin Preview
The Badgers snapped a two-dual losing streak their last time out, besting the now-No. 21 Michigan Wolverines 20-12 at home in their last Big Ten tilt of the season. Wisconsin claimed seven of the 10 matches as they improved to 4-5 in the conference and 11-5 overall.
“Today was great,” Badgers head coach Chris Bono said, according to the Wisconsin athletics department website. “They responded great. What I was real proud of, I just told the team was that even in the losses, they were all dog fights.”
Seth Gross, ranked No. 1 at 133 pounds by InterMat, dominated Michigan’s Austin Assad en route to an 18-0 technical fall. Wisconsin’s Cole Martin, No. 19 at 149 pounds, scored a late reversal to force overtime against Ben Lamantia, then notched another reversal in the second extra period for a 9-8 win.
“I knew that if I just kept him on my attacks and kept wearing on him, I’d be able to either pull it out in the third period or take it into overtime,” Martin said, per the athletics department site. “A lot of it is just trusting my training and conditioning, and not counting myself out. I don’t remember thinking anything, I just wrestled through all my positions. I didn’t really know at the time when I got the reversal that they gave him the takedown. If I’m in a position like that, especially at the end of the match, I’m not going to just give up the takedown. It is something that, no matter what, I’m going to wrestle through until the whistle.”
On Thursday, Martin will likely meet No. 10 Max Thomsen, who also claimed a sudden victory his last time out. The Northern Iowa 149-pounder bested then-No. 8 Jarrett Degen of the No. 19 Iowa State Cyclones on Sunday with a double-leg takedown early in the first overtime period. Only three other Panthers managed victories, however, as UNI fell 18-16.
“We’ve got to give ourselves more opportunities,” Panthers head coach Doug Schwab said, according to The Des Moines Register. “The moment got big in a few of those situations. You could see it, and you have to go back to where you’re good and where you’ve trained. We train our guys to continue to attack.
“We had a few situations where we had them on the ropes. There’s got to be a little bit of a death blow in there. When you’re a competitor, you have to smell that blood. There were some situations where there was blood in the water, and we did not go after it.”