All along, I’ve thought the most important player for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team this season was Keaton Nankivil.
The reasoning went like this: Replacing 6-foot-11 post men Brian Butch and Greg Stiemsma was going to be more difficult than anyone imagined and Nankivil, a wide-shouldered 6-8 sophomore, was the best “big” the Badgers had to drop into the middle of their four veteran perimeter players.