Struggling Badgers Basketball Plays On Without 2 Significant Players

While the Wisconsin men’s basketball team tries to break a funk that includes seven losses in the last nine games, they will have to do it without one critical starter and an important reserve. Point guard D’Mitrik Trice will have surgery of his foot today (Monday) and he is expected to miss at least four weeks.  He played 30 minutes in the loss to Temple, so it isn’t clear when he suffered the injury.  Freshman wing Kobe King is out indefinitely after injuring his knee in last Friday’s practice.  Trice had started every game before the Marquette loss.  He was leading the team with more than 31 minutes-a-game on the court.  King was averaging 19 minutes-a-game, scoring a little over five points-a-game.