Overview
- Writers in the Indianapolis Star/Columbus Dispatch poll picked Wisconsin seventh, while USA TODAY Network voters slotted the Badgers sixth.
- Guard John Blackwell is the only Badger on the Big Ten’s 10-player preseason all-conference list and landed on multiple media second teams.
- The Big Ten assigned start times and TV platforms for every Wisconsin game, mixing Fox, CBS, FS1 and BTN windows with seven streaming-only dates.
- Streaming placements include exhibitions on B1G+ and regular-season games on Peacock against BYU, UCLA, Illinois and USC, with several late tips such as a 10 p.m. CT game at Oregon.
- Wisconsin enters with nine newcomers after offseason departures, shaping expectations that place the Badgers in the league’s middle-to-upper tier entering media days.