After a one-year hiatus, Wisconsin looks like an NCAA Tournament team again.
The Badgers saw their 19-year streak of March Madness appearances snapped by an injury-marred 2017-18 season. With its two starting guards banged up, Wisconsin stumbled to a losing record. Point guard D’Mitrik Trice missed the final 23 games of the year with an injured foot, forcing true freshman Brad Davison—a natural shooting guard—to take over at point, where he played nearly the entire season with a hurt shoulder that required offseason surgery.
Trice and Davison are back at full strength this season. That’s bad news for the Big Ten because it means Ethan Happ is no longer alone.