Less than a week away from the formal start of the college basketball season, ESPN put together a roundtable of college basketball writers to discuss the 2021-22 Big Ten campaign.
Wisconsin’s 2021-22 squad is a young, fresh set of Badgers who represent a complete one-eighty from the narrative surrounding last year’s group. While the Badgers aren’t expected to contend for a Big Ten regular season title, they are expected to be in the mix for an NCAA Tournament berth.
The ESPN panel had Wisconsin ranked at three different positions in their respective Big Ten standings, with consensus seeing the Badgers around the lower-middle tier of the conference.
Here is a look at where each writer projected the Badgers to finish: