How many scholarships does Wisconsin basketball have for the 2025-2026 season?
Mar 14, 2025; Indianapolis, IN, USA; The Wisconsin Badgers bench celebrates during the second half against the UCLA Bruins at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
The landscape of D1 NCAA basketball will change in 2025-2026 as each team will be able to hold 15 full-scholarship players. That is up from the 13 that was the previous limit since 1973.
The women’s side of the sport has had the opportunity to have 15 for years, but just now the men’s side is able to be at the same level. With all the seniors graduating, the scholarship limit increasing, and even a player jumping into the portal, how many scholarships will the Wisconsin men’s basketball program have available for the 2025-2026 season?
Graduating players
Kamari McGee Carter Gilmore John Tonje Max Klesmit Steven Crowl Markus Ilver
Transferring In
N/A for now
Incoming Freshmen
Zach Kinziger Will Garlock Hayden Jones
Returning Players
Jack Robinson Daniel Frietag Xavier Amos Aidan Konop Isaac Gard Riccardo Greppi Chris Hodges John Blackwell Nolan Winter Jack Janicki
Not all the above players were/are scholarship players, but this is a good overview of where everything is standing (as of now).
There may be a few more changes as the portal continues to shake out both in and out for Wisconsin.
With the above information as the basis of the answer to the question: How many scholarships will the Wisconsin men’s basketball program have available for the 2025-2026 season? We can now get to the bottom of it.
We start with 15 scholarships. If Greg Gard and Wisconsin decided to award scholarships to everyone returning and all the incoming freshmen, that would be 13 scholarships. This would put Wisconsin at two scholarships remaining.
However, that’s unlikely as the walk-ons will most likely remain walk-ons (Janicki could move to scholarship): Isaac Gard, Aidan Konop, and Jack Janicki.
If all three remain as walk-ons, that would obviously add three more scholarships, giving Wisconsin five total scholarships to work with. If Janicki gets a scholarship, that puts it down to four. It will be interesting to see how those scholarships are divvied up.
