With basketball season rapidly approaching, both the Wisconsin men’s and women’s teams have exhibition games this weekend, the Big Ten Conference announced their preseason honors earlier this week. With both Badgers teams expected to have down years this season there was no Wisconsin representation on any of the lists.
However, we should probably familiarize ourselves with the players we will be disliking strongly as they shoot/dunk/dribble over/on/past our players. First things first, the preseason players of the year.
Men’s: Illinois junior center Kofi Cockburn
Women’s: Iowa sophomore guard Caitlin Clark (coaches); Michigan senior forward Naz Hillmon (media):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22964592/usa_today_15755884.jpg)
And here is the preseason men’s All-Big Ten Team (players in all caps were unanimous selections and there are 11 players instead of 10 due to a tie):
KOFI COCKBURN, JR.