{"id":87388,"date":"2025-08-16T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87388\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:21:07","slug":"wisconsin-basketball-guard-projected-as-one-of-nations-leading-scorers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87388\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin basketball guard projected as one of nation&#8217;s leading scorers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With college football just around the corner, preview work for the college basketball season is taking a back seat. However, Wisconsin fans have reason to be excited for the 2025-2026 campaign. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/wisconsin-badgers\/3442\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Badgers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Badgers<\/a> are expected to be one of the better teams in both the Big Ten and the entire sport.<\/p>\n<p>One of the players who will determine Wisconsin&#8217;s success is junior guard John Blackwell, who is poised to make a significant jump as the team&#8217;s top option. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/barttorvik.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BartTorvik.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BartTorvik.com<\/a>, a website dedicated to college basketball data and analysis, Blackwell is projected as one of the highest scoring players in the sport this winter. Torvik has Blackwell with the ninth-highest projected points per game total, just below Ohio State&#8217;s Bruce Thornton and BYU&#8217;s AJ Dybantsa.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin&#8217;s transfer portal class of Nick Boyd, Andrew Rohde, Austin Rapp and others will be crucial for the team&#8217;s success this upcoming season. Still, roster retention remains the most important thing in the current age of college sports. Returning contributors like Blackwell, Nolan Winter, and Jack Janicki should have just as much of a say in the team&#8217;s success. Expect a big year from Blackwell and the rest of his Badgers teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebadgerswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@TheBadgersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@TheBadgersWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/badgerswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Wisconsin Badgers news, notes and opinion<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Badgers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/badgerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/badgers\/mens-basketball\/2025\/08\/16\/wisconsin-john-blackwell-stats-projection\/85678157007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wisconsin basketball John Blackwell scoring projection Bart Torvik;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Wisconsin basketball John Blackwell scoring projection Bart Torvik<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With college football just around the corner, preview work for the college basketball season is taking a back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[60102,9526,402,60101,4044,1607,60104,60099,398,400,401,60103,99,60100,1745],"class_list":["post-87388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-andrew-rohde","tag-badgers","tag-basketball","tag-bruce-thornton","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-football","tag-jack-janicki","tag-john-blackwell","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-nolan-winter","tag-sports","tag-torvik","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}