Wisconsin Basketball: Analyzing the 2020-21 projected rotation
By Cody Larson
Wisconsin Basketball aims to have a huge 2020-21 season and push for a Big Ten championship. Here is the projected rotation that will lead the charge.
Among all of the treacherous things that have been going on in the world, Wisconsin Basketball’s offseason was not one of them. People say everything post-Coronavirus will be entirely different, which is probably true as long as they are excluding the Badgers and their rotational outlook.
Head coach Greg Gard will return almost every major contributor from last season’s Big Ten championship roster. Brevin Pritzl (27.1 minutes per game last year) is the only player on the way out (when choosing to discount the mid-season Kobe King debacle). Wisconsin’s arguable top-7 contributors next season will all be seniors, and a deep recruiting class will join them.
The Badgers will bring in five freshmen next season, highlighted by 4-star big man Ben Carlson and should-be 4-star combo guard Johnny Davis. Those two should be ready to contribute as soon as the 2020-21 season kicks off (whenever that may be).
Combine those two and the seniors with surprise freshman year standout Tyler Wahl, and Wisconsin Basketball’s depth will be as deep as Lake Superior and Lake Michigan combined. Available minutes will be limited and playing time will have to be earned. Some could argue Wisconsin is almost too deep, but that is the least problematic problem to have.
Even next year’s starting lineup seems to still be an open debate (depending on if the Badgers want to play big or small), despite all of the returning talent from the year prior. Wisconsin will likely toy around with that quite a bit to start the season, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early for fans to begin speculation. So without further ado, here is a best-shot breakdown of what Wisconsin Basketball’s projected rotation will look like in 2020-21.