They aren't typical Wisconsin, but they have more talent than their record.
It's an interesting question actually, and sort of comes down to how you define "talent." Like if if a high three-star we know hasn't and won't develop counts as talent, they might. If we're saying, this team has the ability to reasonably play better than it has for long stretches, probably not.
This is the rotation at this point, in terms of consistency
1. Happ - Obviously awesome, but being asked to do waayyyy too much
2. Brad Davison - He's playing better than can be expected, but he's a non-Top-100 recruit being asked to carry the biggest offensive load on the perimeter as a true freshman.
3. Iverson - He's UW's third most consistent player. He's 0-for-23 from 3, he turns the ball over on 23.9 percent of the possessions he uses, and despite having a robust field goal percentage because he takes almost no jump shots, he's got probably 10-plus missed dunks this season. That's the third-most consistent guy.
4. Pritzel - He does some nice things on offense and turns the ball over as little as one of UW's low-usage SGs should. ... But he is still not actually shooting the ball better than 33.1 percent from 3, which is the main thing I need him to do, and has defensive lapses often.
5. Aleem Ford - Tall, standstill shooting, redshirt freshman combo forward who has enough defensive issues he got benched for walk-ons for a whole second half five games ago.
6. Nate Reuvers - Skinny freshman big who has shown aggressiveness, but not yet honed the finer points of efficiency or not fouling all over the place. Also sometimes moves like a baby deer on defense, but that's improved somewhat.
7. Walk-on
8. Walk-on
Beyond that, you have a trio of junior bigs who all busted pretty badly. Only one was kind of well-rated (No. 147), and he hasn't been able to carve out a niche of "defend OK guys at multiple spots and hit enough 3s," which is maddening. Two other rotation perimeter guys are on the shelf for the season. At the moment, the third-best guard is a small forward who can't shoot and doesn't have great handles and the center often has to bring the ball up because the shooting guard can't.
That up there isn't the talent to be much better than 12-16, really 8-10 since losing those two rotation guys to injury. Six guys that can play ahead of passive walk-ons, only one of whom is really high-end (Divison will be as a sophomore or junior). It's been a rough year for a reason.