
Carter Higginbottom is Wisconsin’s ultimate glue-guy guard
Carter Higginbottom is a 6-foot redshirt junior guard for Wisconsin who has long been valued less for box-score fireworks and more for steadiness, buy-in, and team-first reliability. In his Wisconsin career, he has logged limited minutes and little statistical production, but the Badgers have still trusted him as a walk-on presence with veteran experience and a reputation for doing the unglamorous stuff right. If you want a high-IQ, low-ego guard who fits a disciplined culture and won’t need the offense run through him, Higginbottom is the kind of roster piece coaches quietly love.