Ever since it was announced that Joey Hauser and Sam Hauser—brothers from Stevens Point, Wis., who until recently played their collegiate basketball in Milwaukee—entered the transfer portal, I thought the Fightin’ Wisconsin Badgers had a chance to nab the two tall, central Wisconsin sons that head coach Greg Gard needed to round out his 2020-2021 roster.
With HAUSER WATCH taking over Wisconsin message boards and Twitter, my wife, and subsequently my two-year-old daughter, started jokingly referring to them as the “Basketball Boys.” She used the nickname in scenarios such as this:
“Harper seems to be getting into trouble.