The Wisconsin Badgers had one of their players selected in the 2025 NBA Draft on Thursday, as star John Tonje went No. 53 overall to the Utah Jazz.
Tonje, 24, broke out as a sixth-year senior, averaging 19.6 points and 5.3 rebounds on 46.5 percent from the field and 38.8 percent from deep. He was widely expected to go in the second round of the draft, but the exact teams interested weren’t clear.
Ultimately, he ends up on a Jazz team that added quite a bit of shooting with Ace Bailey and Walter Clayton Jr.