Lee Sports Wisconsin columnist Jim Polzin answers reader questions each week in Open Jim and for this week's video response, he hits the court.
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The Big Ten seems to be fairly loaded with strong basketball coaches. Rank them (at least the top half) and do you feel any particular coach moved noticeably up or down based on this year’s performance?
— Chris Davis (@cdavis20000) March 29, 2022
A lot of national pundits are saying big10 schools failed in the tourney. Do you agree?
— Sheriff Bart (@boymaballsich) March 29, 2022
Would Curbelo fit as a Badger?
— JMW123 (@jmw1235) March 29, 2022
Do you see the MBB team going heavy in in the transfer portal?
— MAMU SZN (@mikeybucks13) March 29, 2022
Who are the 5 most realistic transfer targets?
— Mike Huberman (@MikeHubes) March 29, 2022
Do the badgers have any inside track to get reeves to transfer here over the other schools?
— William Reeves (@William59233417) March 29, 2022
Please rank the players who meet these requirements:
— Craig Smith (@smithcp1) March 29, 2022
1. Played for Ryan/Gard
2. Taller than 6-6
3. Graduated from a Minnesota HS
Can you list out any 2022 4 star basketball recruits we have either landed or are in the running to still land before the season? Additionally the same for 2023?
— Sam Shapiro (@samdshapiro) March 29, 2022
Badgers down 1 with 10 seconds remaining in a mythical NCAAB championship game. Pick one player who played for UW in the last 20 years that you want to take the last shot. One honorable mention allowed.
— Mike Heindl (@HeindlMike) March 29, 2022
Just wondering, have you been able to gauge the camaraderie of the "new" coaching staff-either on its own merits or in comparison to other years?
— Christopher Wollak (@wollakcj) March 29, 2022
Does it strike you as odd that Chryst now has a QB coach who played receiver and a RB coach who played on the line? And the new TE coach was not a very good special teams coach ?
— Steve Schuster (@SteveSc84123682) March 29, 2022
When Paul Chryst says he has revamped the offense, does that mean he has added “going on 2”, added a 5 TE set, added a 5 FB set, incorporated an 11 walk-on set, or all of the above?
— Thornton Melon (@URaRa_Wisconsin) March 29, 2022
Who will be the highest picked badger in the draft?
— Fred Ehle (@FredEhle) March 29, 2022
Will the @MadisonRadicals win an AUDL Championship this year in Madison?
— Madison Radicals (@MadisonRadicals) March 29, 2022
Do you feel like you always get a question you want to answer, that would appeal to many other readers, when you ask?
— Bebs (@bebsolson) March 29, 2022
Fave 5: Jim Polzin picks his favorite stories of 2021
Jim Polzin stepped into a new role in June, going from University of Wisconsin men’s basketball beat reporter to Lee Sports Wisconsin columnist.
Polzin wore both hats later that month when, on back-to-back days, he broke the news about seven seniors confronting coach Greg Gard in a secretly recorded meeting during the 2020-21 season and followed up with a column about how that recording had exposed cracks in the program’s foundation.
I wish I didn’t have to write this story about the daughter of former UW football standout Al Toon, who was killed in an apparent murder-suici…
I was assigned this story when the news broke in early April that Alvarez was “retiring.” A couple months later, I’d produce what may have bee…
I wanted to get a game column in this list and there were handful from which to choose. But selected this one from the opener against Penn Sta…
Moseley is a fascinating woman who’s in the early stages of a major rebuilding project. Not as many people read this story as I’d hoped, so ma…
This story has been on a Microsoft Word document of stories I’d wanted to pursue ever since Smart, who grew up in the Madison area, was named …
