Badgers Need Keaton Nankivil to Produce in More Ways Than One

Jon Leuer is the obvious play-maker for the Wisconsin Badgers Men’s Basketball team, but don’t discount the senior Keaton Nankivil as an important cog in Bo Ryan’s well-oiled machine known as the swing offense. We all know Nankivil can shoot. This is evident from his career shooting percentage of .483 (157-for-325) in three seasons with the Badgers. Where he looks to improve his game is in the rebounding department. Nankivil averaged only 4.7 rebounds per game as the primary big man on a team which lives or dies on the boards. By: Nick Grays For the third year in a row, Nankivil led all scorers with 22 points on 10-of-15 shooting in the Wisconsin Men’s Basketball annual Red-White Scrimmage on Sunday. He also snagged eight rebounds to power his White team past the Red team by the score of 65-51. “Overall I think we did a pretty good job. It’s only a week into the season and, I think, sometimes we forget that. As far as the four scrimmages I’...