Wisconsin Basketball: Analyzing the 2020-21 projected rotation

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Nate Reuvers (Sr): 30 minutes 

If Trice isn’t Wisconsin’s most important player, then Nate Reuvers is. He’s the team’s lead returning scorer at 13.1 points per game and makes his impact felt dramatically on the defensive end as well. He’s a sound last line of defense for the Badgers thanks to his stout rim-protecting ability. He averaged 1.9 blocks per game last season as a junior. Opponents also only made 39.2 percent of their post up shot attempts against him, despite being in the center-loaded Big Ten.

On offense, he has a dependable hook shot down low and also has a great face-up game. He made 40 percent of his mid-range jumpers and 33.7 percent of his shots from three. One could draw fair comparisons to the way Reuvers players with former Badger great Frank Kaminsky.

They are on a relatively similar statistical trajectory, and while Reuvers has a long way to go in matching Kaminsky’s legendary senior year, one could hope he can mimic at least 70-80 percent of it.

Micah Potter (R-Sr): 10 minutes

As dominant as a Reuvers/Potter frontcourt duo can potentially be, Wisconsin will still likely want to shrink their lineup down every now and then; that will likely lead to Potter also dabbling in some minutes at the center spot. He’s very accustomed here, arguably more so than he is at the power forward spot. But again, Wisconsin Basketball will have enough depth to house a sky-high diving board; his time at center will be limited partly because of that.

Wisconsin Basketball’s rotation is one that will once again make a Big Ten championship push, perhaps even more than that. They return almost every contributor from last season’s successful lineup and add a plethora of young talent ready to make an instant impact. Badger fans already saw what most of this rotation could do last year, 2020-21 could, or should, be even better.