"He's got some experience now,'' Gard said, "and now it's time for him to take an- other step. Not a lot of fresh- men get the playing time that he did. Hopefully he has learned from it and im- proved himself."
"I don't know what that says,'' she volunteered with a shrug. But after New Berlin won the state title her sophomore year, the college recruiters took no- tice.
Bauman took visits to Bradley, Drake, Mar- quette, Green Bay and Wisconsin. "When I was little, it was always my dream to come here,'' she said. As she got older, she got more deliberate about her options. "When I got to high school, I knew that I want-
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ed to think about it more,'' she said. But there really wasn't much suspense in her
choice. "In the end, I just knew I wanted to come here,'' she said. "My whole family is Badger fans.'' Wurtz obviously has become a Bauman fan. Whatever she lacks physically at this stage
of her development — and there's no question that Bauman will be challenged in the Big Ten — Wurtz said, "She makes up for it with speed and quickness.'' Wurtz, meanwhile, is attempting to make up
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