For Marcus Landry and Greg Stiemsma, this will be a much-needed vacation.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team leaves Thursday for a 10-day tour of Italy that will include a visit to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and to Michelangelo’s David.
Rome and Florence are lovely at any time of year but it’s the five exhibition games the Badgers are scheduled to play that have Landry and Stiemsma excited. The two, who are expected to be key players for the team next season, haven’t played a game or traveled with their teammates since January, when both were declared academically ineligible for the second semester.