Author: Luke Reimer

Last season, the Marquette college basketball team hit a roadblock, as they were the first victory on North Carolina’s Final Four run. Coming into the season, the Marquette basketball team’s biggest worry was who would provide the scoring. The Golden Eagles had 30.4 points per game of production leave the school, as the top two leading scorers (Justin Lewis and Darryl Morsell) left. With the lack of experienced scoring and a projected difficult Big East, Marquette looked like it could miss the NCAA Tournament this year. That is certainly not the case, as Marquette currently sits at 22-6 with the…

Wisconsin is not your stereotypical basketball-producing state. Right, it makes sense that the “Dairy State” would produce a higher number of football players than basketball players. And that is right, but I think that it is often understated how strong of a basketball tradition is in the state. In the history of the league, 72 NBA players could claim that they were born in Wisconsin. Of those 72 players, 11 of them have played at least one minute this season. In this article, we’ll go over the careers of active NBA players who were born in Wisconsin. This list of…