While the official start date of the 2020-2021 college basketball season is still up for discussion, we here at Bucky’s 5th Quarter are champing at the bit for hoops to start and have decided to get our returning player profile series going again. Over the next two weeks we will profile all of the returning players and then the week after that we will profile all of the incoming freshmen on the team.
The first freshman up on our player profiles is preferred walk-on Justin Taphorn.
Position: small forward
Height: 6-foot-4
Year: freshman
Hometown: Pekin, Illinois (Pekin High School)
Recruiting info: Class of 2020, no stars, not ranked
Excited to announce that I have accepted a Preferred Walk-On position from Coach Gard at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and to further my Academic and Basketball career.