Six University of Wisconsin coaches received routine one-year extensions to their contracts Friday.
Greg Gard (men's basketball), Marisa Moseley (women's basketball), Mike Hastings (men's hockey), Mark Johnson (women's hockey), Chris Bono (wrestling) and Yuri Suguiyama (men's and women's swimming and diving) have five-year contracts that now run through the 2028-29 season.
The Athletic Board approved administrators' recommendations for the extensions during a brief closed session Friday.
It has become common for the Wisconsin athletic department to extend head coaches' contracts by a year after the season to keep the term of the agreement at the initial level.
The Athletic Board has approval authority over contract extensions and the awarding of bonuses. The bonus money approved in the closed session Friday wasn't immediately available.
The Badgers were 22-14Â and finished fifth in the Big Ten at 11-9 a season after they missed the NCAA Tournament.
The women's basketball team was 15-17 in Moseley's third season with the Badgers. It was the team's 13th straight losing record but its highest winning percentage since 2010-11. Wisconsin won two games in the WNIT before falling to Saint Louis in the quarterfinals.
The Wisconsin women's hockey team made it to the NCAA championship game for the second straight season but had the tables turned by Ohio State, which lost the 2023 final to the Badgers. Johnson on Oct. 13 became the first NCAA women's hockey coach to win 600 games en route to directing the 2023-24 team to a 35-6 record and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoff championship.
Both Wisconsin swimming and diving teams finished fourth at the Big Ten championships in Suguiyama's sixth season, and Phoebe Bacon joined Beata Nelson as Wisconsin's two-time NCAA champions by taking first in the 200 backstroke. Bacon also was named swimmer of the championship at the Big Ten women's meet after she finished first in two events.
Photos: Wisconsin women's basketball vs. Saint Louis in the Great 8 at the WNIT
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The Badgers reached No. 6 in the national rankings in coach Greg Gard's ninth season as head coach but lost eight of their last 11 regular-season games.