Before Jarrod Uthoff was a star for the Iowa Hawkeyes, he was a redshirt freshman for the Wisconsin basketball program back in 2011-12. Wednesday night the two will be reunited again when the Badgers and Hawkeyes hit the court.
Uthoff redshirted a season at Wisconsin before deciding to transfer, a pretty usual occurence that became very unusual when head coach Bo Ryan barred his transfer to any Big Ten school as well as several other potential landing spots.
When the story went national and Ryan was heavily criticized, he relented, and Uthoff ended up walking on at Iowa.