Throughout the offseason, Wisconsin basketball dealt with injuries to its two starting forwards Nolan Winter and Austin Rapp.
Winter underwent ankle surgery after the 2025-26 campaign and was held off the court for a large portion of the offseason. Austin Rapp, meanwhile, had hand surgery in the offseason and was similarly limited for large swaths of the spring and summer.
That led to increased practice minutes and reps for Wisconsin’s two bench forwards, sophomore Will Garlock and Hofstra transfer Victory Onuetu. Those two battled it out throughout offseason practices, and reportedly got much better in the process. But with Winter and Rapp back in action, Garlock is now dealing with an ailment of his own…