The Stevens Point Pipeline: How a small Wisconsin town has changed the future of Virginia basketball
Sam Hauser is the latest person with roots in a small Wisconsin town to make it to Charlottesville, where he is expected to be a superstar for Tony Bennett's Virginia Cavaliers this season.
Stevens Point is a town of 26,000 people in Portage County, Wisconsin, a slice of middle America that sits smack in the center of a state that is, more or less, known for four things: The Badgers, the Packers, the cheese and Milwaukee.
It’s the kind of town that rabidly supports their local Division III team -- Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the Pointers, a po…