Charlie Wills, a senior forward on the University of Wisconsin
men’s basketball team, is one of 12 players selected for the 2001
Big Ten Foreign Tour, announced by the conference office Monday.

Indiana Head Coach Mike Davis will lead the team on a six-game
tour of England and Ireland from Aug. 8-19.

Wills, a native of Angola, Ind., saw action in all 29 games during
the Badgers’ 2000-01 season, earning nine starts while averaging
4.2 points and 3.0 rebounds per game. He scored a career-high
15 points in the Badgers win over 13th-ranked Maryland and had
his first career double-double (12 points, 10 boards) versus
UW-Milwaukee. Wills has never missed a game during his
Wisconsin career (97 straight) and is one of two seniors on the
UW’s 2001-02 roster.

Also selected to compete for the Big Ten are Nick Smith of Illinois,
Tom Coverdale and Kyle Hornsby of Indiana, Duez Henderson of
Iowa, Gavin Groninger of Michigan, Al Anagonye and Adam Wolf of
Michigan State, Shane Shilling of Minnesota, Tavaras Hardy of
Northwestern, Sharif Chambliss of Penn State and Kenneth Lowe
of Purdue.