Wisconsin Badgers

OVERVIEW
Joined the Badgers as a true freshman in 2021-22 and has steadily, year by year, increased his playing time ... Enters the 2024-25 season having played in 53 career games, including a career high 27 games in 2023-24 ... Represented Estonia in the 2020 Baltic Sea Basketball Cup, as well as the FIBA U20 European Championship.

CAREER HONORS
• Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2025)
• 3x Academic All-Big Ten (2023, 2024, 2025)

2024-25 (SENIOR)
Appeared in 20 games for UW … scored a career-high 8 points against Detroit Mercy, knocking down two 3-pointers (Dec. 22) … went 2-for-3 from the 3-point line against Minnesota (Jan. 10)

2023-24 (JUNIOR)
Played a career-high 19 minutes against Arkansas State (Nov. 6) ... Scored season-high 5 points (2-2 FG) against No. 1 Arizona (Dec. 9) ... Played 5 minutes, tallying 3 points, 5 rebounds, 1 block and 1 assist against Penn State (Jan. 16) ... Tied season-high 5 points while having career-high 2 steals against Purdue (March 10). 

2022-23 (SOPHOMORE)
Helped his native country of Estonia to a third-place finish at the FIBA U20 European Championship in Tbilisi ... Appeared in 18 games for the Badgers ... Scored career-high 6 points in Wisconsin’s win over Dayton at the Battle 4 Atlantis (Jan. 10) ... Played a season-high 18 minutes at Illinois (Jan. 7) ... Grabbed a career-high 3 rebounds twice against Illinois and At Indiana (Jan. 14).

2021-22 (FRESHMAN)
Played 8 games as a true freshman ... Played a season-high 11 minutes vs. Green Bay (Nov. 12), finishing with 3 points and 4 rebounds in the win ... Scored 2 points and played 7 minutes in his debut as a Badger vs. St. Francis Brooklyn (Nov. 9).

HIGH SCHOOL
Three-star forward (247 Sports) ... No. 6 ranked 2021 prospect in Ohio; No. 40 power forward in the nation ... Senior season in 2020, played a partial season of high school basketball (due to COVID-19 restrictions) at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio ... Junior season in 2019, played at Massanutten Military Academy in Virginia ... Represented Estonia at the 2020 Baltic Sea Basketball Cup, earning MVP honors after he averaged 15 points and 6 rebounds per game.

PERSONAL
Parents are Pritt and Gerly Ilver ... Younger brother, Robin ... Father, Priit, followed a similar path leaving Estonia to play basketball in the United States ... Priit played two seasons at St. Francis Brooklyn from 1998-2000 where he appeared in 28 games as a senior before returning to Estonia to play basketball professionally ... Studying personal finance.