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Green Bay to face Iowa State in first round of NCAA tournament

March 13, 2012 By Bill Scott

The Green Bay Phoenix are making their 4th straight trip to the Women’s NCAA Tournament, but the women’s selection didn’t do them

Selection Monday / Photo courtesy of GreenBayPhoenix.com

any favors.

The 10th ranked Phoenix (30-1) will return to the site of its tournament run from two seasons ago and will play at Iowa State (18-12) in Ames, Iowa.  But they do so as the seventh seed in the Des Moines Region while the Cyclones are seeded 10th.  Green Bay mad a trip to the Sweet 16 a year ago before falling to top-seeded Baylor 86-76 in Dallas.  Green Bay was a 5-seed last season and finished 34-2.

This season, Green Bay has been ranked in the top 10 for much of the latter half of the season.  But that apparently wasn’t enough to get the Phoenix a home game, or a game on a neutral floor.

AUDIO: Green Bay coach Matt Bollant isn’t a fan of the 7-seed :18

Green Bay is led by senior forward Julie Wojta, who is an All-American candidate and the Horizon League Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year.  Wojta is averaging 19.7 points and 9.3 rebounds per game and is coming off a 29-point performance in a 66-53 win over Detroit in the Horizon League tournament title game.

In 2010, Green Bay received the first at-large bid in program history and played in Ames as a No. 12 seed.  The Phoenix defeated fifth-seeded Virginia 69-67 in the first round before falling to 4th seeded Iowa State 60-56 in the second round.

AUDIO: Julie Wojta on having to play Iowa State on their home floor :15

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Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Julie Wojta, Matt Bollant, NCAA, UW-Green Bay



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