Playing without two starters on Saturday the short-handed Wisconsin basketball team held on to beat visiting and 14th ranked Michigan State 64-63.
The Badgers don’t have the services of second leading scorer, Kobe King, who has left the program and also didn’t have guard Brad Davison who served a one-game suspension.
De Pere native Brevin Pritzl got his 2nd start of the season and scored 10-points and grabbed 7-rebounds for Wisconsin, 13-and-9, and 6-and-5 in the Big-10.
Brevin’s father, Brian Pritzl a Valders High School graduate, and an assistant coach for the De Pere Boys basketball team spoke with us Friday night during the Bank First Halftime Show, where he said he wasn’t sure if is son was going to start, but “he’ll probably be playing more minutes. He’s been playing 25-28 minutes.”
He also expected the team to look to him to contribute more offensively to counteract the loss of King and Davison.
Brian didn’t have the three-point-line when he played high school ball for Coach Dick Nelson.
He recalled having a contest with his boys to see who was the better 3 point shooter.
“Brevin can really shoot it,” Brian said. “He really enjoys it.”
Brevin, the son of Brian and Kathy Pritzl, is a fifth year senior for the Badgers and will graduate with his Masters degree in Intercollegiate Athletic Administration.
He earned his undergrad degree in Kinesiology and would like to focus on strength training or conditioning area, but not before seeing if Basketball overseas might be in his future.
Brevin also got engaged last summer and is expected to Tie-the-knot in May of 2021.
