On Saturday, the Wisconsin basketball team meets Illinois, a team that has been bolstered greatly by senior transfer and Wisconsin native Marcus Domask.

The Waupun High School graduate spent four seasons with Southern Illinois and has now moved to Champaign, where his 15.5 points per game are second on the team and his 3.5 assists lead the way.

He just crossed over the 2,000-point plateau in his career, entering the Wisconsin game with 2,049 points. And that's significant because only four other Wisconsinites have turned that feat in NCAA Division I men's basketball.

There's a caveat there; Domask is in his fifth season, although he only played in 10 games as a sophomore in 2020-21. He was granted an extra season of eligibility because of the COVID-19 pandemic. There's also the obvious, that players need to actually stay a full four years (or more) to achieve 2,000 points, and the very best players aren't staying in college that long.

Also older players were often kept out of varsity lineups until their sophomore year and didn't have the three-pointer at their disposal, so that's also a roadblock to getting to 2K.

But Domask has made the most of his extra time at Illinois, helping the Illini move into second place in the Big Ten. Barring something diasterous, he'll play in his first NCAA Tournament in March.

His point total is already the third most for any Wisconsin-native men's basketball player in NCAA DI history. Who else has crossed 2,000 points?

Tony Bennett, UW-Green Bay (2,285 points)

Bennett, now the successful head coach at Virginia, is part of the famous Wisconsin basketball family, playing for his father with the Phoenix and helping to put Green Bay basketball on the map before he was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets.

Bennett averaged 21.5 points as a junior and 20.2 as a senior for Green Bay, where he played from 1988-92. His team narrowly lost to Michigan State as a No. 12 seed in the 1991 NCAA Tournament, 60-58.

Bennett played high-school ball at Stevens Point Area High School and Green Bay Preble.

Rodney Buford, Creighton (2,116 points)

The Milwaukee Vincent alumnus played for the Blue Jays from 1995-99, scoring 18.9 points per game as a junior and 18.6 as a senior. He finished his career in the NCAA Tournament, with 10th-seeded Creighton upsetting Louisville in the first round, 62-58, and Buford scoring 13 points in the win (while Oak Creek's Ben Walker added 16). Walker scored seven points in the final three minutes and made four free throws, and Buford was also bit as the Blue Jays rallied. Buford scored 13 points in a loss to Maryland in the second round.

He was drafted by the Miami Heat in the second round of the 1999 draft, taken 53rd.

Troy Huff, North Dakota (2,005 points)

The Brookfield Academy alumnus played at North Dakota from 2010-14, averaging 19.2 points per game as a junior and senior. He scored 12 points in a loss to Omaha in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament at the end of the 2014 season, helping him cross that threshold. He became the third 2,000-point scorer in program history.

Reed Timmer, Drake (2,000 points)

The graduate of New Berlin Eisenhower did just enough with the Bulldogs, playing from 2014-18.

Timmer averaged 19.2 points per game as a senior, scoring 20 points in a loss to Northern Colorado to close the CIT; the team defeated Abilene Christian in the first round to even get the chance. Timmer scored five of his points during a late-game push that fell short for Drake, leaving the program as its all-time leading scorer.

What about 2,000-point scorers on the women's side?

Wisconsin has no shortage of players to reach that threshold in women's Division I basketball.

The information isn't as complete in the Sports Reference database, but we do know several names.

Megan Gustafson, Iowa (2,804 points)

For now, the alumna of tiny South Shore High School remains in the top 25 of all women's scorers, and it was her mark that Caitlin Clark passed in Iowa lore as Clark ascended to the top of the NCAA career scoring chart. Gustafson played from 2016-19 at Iowa, winning national player of the year honors as a senior. She also became the program's all-time leading rebounder, and her 1,460 total boards also rank her among the top 20 in NCAA DI history.

Arike Ogunbowale, Notre Dame (2,626 points)

The Divine Savior Holy Angels star has an argument as the best high school basketball player to come from the state, and she went on to have an unparalleled single NCAA Tournament when she hit game-winning shots in both the national semifinal and national final for Notre Dame. She played for the Irish from 2016-19 and continues to play in the WNBA for the Dallas Wings.

Traci Edwards, UW-Milwaukee (2,340 points)

A star at UW-Milwaukee from 2006-09, Edwards twice averaged more than 20 points per game in a season and was twice named Horizon League player of the year. The 6-2 star also posted a career rebounding average of 9.5 per game and never averaged fewer than 9.0 per season.

She attended Menasha High School before arriving in Milwaukee.

Jolene Anderson, Wisconsin (2,312 points)

Gustafson isn't the only great player to emerge from South Shore High School. Anderson played at UW from 2005-08 before she was drafted by the Connecticut Sun in the second round of the WNBA draft. She never averaged fewer than 17.3 points per game in any of her four seasons with the Badgers, and she went on to play professionally overseas following her run as the greatest scorer in program history.

Allazia Blockton, Marquette (2,204 points)

The alumna of Whitefish Bay Dominican played at MU from 2016-19, becoming the program's all-time leading scorer, and that was even with a downtick to 14.3 points per game as a senior. She was named the Big East player of the year as a junior in 2017-18.

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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Marcus Domask on short list of 2,000-point scorers from Wisconsin