{"id":70266,"date":"2025-07-17T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70266\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:52:10","slug":"wisconsin-basketball-4th-badgers-senior-signs-with-professional-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70266\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Basketball: 4th Badgers senior signs with professional team"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wisconsin Badgers<\/a> had quite a busy offseason, bringing in nine new faces to offset the losses they had with outgoing players.<\/p>\n

A big reason for that was the six seniors they had on the roster: John Tonje, Max Klesmit, Steven Crowl, Carter Gilmore, Kamari McGee, and Markus Illver.<\/p>\n

Of the group, several have already found professional opportunities. Tonje was taken in the 2025 NBA Draft<\/a> by the Utah Jazz<\/a> at No. 53 overall. Crowl signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Jazz. And Gilmore signs a pro contract with the Den Helder Suns in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Now, a fourth senior has signed with a professional team, as Markus Illver is heading to play for Tartu \u00dclikool Maks & Moorits, who hail from his native country of Estonia.<\/p>\n

They are a part of the top-tier league in Estonia, Korvpalli Meistriliiga (KML), and also play in the Estonian-Latvian league. They were the runner-ups in 2024-25 in the KML.<\/p>\n

Illver spent his entire collegiate career with the Badgers, electing to remain with the program despite a lack of playing time. Head coach Greg Gard had strong praise for Illver and his character, as the forward worked hard in practice despite a lack of opportunity and always had high energy.<\/p>\n

Illver played in 20 games as a senior, averaging 3.4 minutes per contest. He averaged 1.6 points and 0.5 rebounds per game, while shooting 35.7 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from deep.<\/p>\n

Now, the 6\u20199 senior will look to make his mark overseas as he signs his first professional contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wisconsin Badgers had quite a busy offseason, bringing in nine new faces to offset the losses they…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[377,1339,386,204,1317,1337,1338,6174,388,196,49413,17941,62,3007,387,67,132,68,1398,2776,1917],"class_list":{"0":"post-70266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-badgers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bucky","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaabasketball","15":"tag-professional","16":"tag-quarter","17":"tag-s","18":"tag-senior","19":"tag-signs","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-team","22":"tag-th","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-wisconsin","27":"tag-wisconsin-badgers-mens-basketball","28":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114869380319348357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}