When Michigan State landed Harvard transfer Denham Wojcik, many Spartan fans’ expectations remained tempered. A bench player from an Ivy League program doesn’t typically scream “game-changer”, especially in a conference as difficult as the Big Ten.
In the modern era of the transfer portal, the expectation is often that every swing has to be one for the fences, but this is simply not the case.
Wojcik, the son of MSU associate head coach Doug Wojcik, isn’t headed to East Lansing to light up the scoreboard. He will provide a combination of maturity and stability at the bottom of the depth chart for a backcourt that lost two of its biggest contributors in Jaden Akins and Tre Holloman. It is unlikely that Wojcik sees the court often in a Spartan uniform, but seems more reliable than other veterans who have sat at the end of the bench for Tom Izzo…