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UWGB adds familiar assistants

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Former Badger Freddie Owens is expected to be added to the coaching staff of the Green Bay Phoenix under new head coach Will Ryan.

Owens will be joined by De Pere native and Hillsdale (Mich.) College assistant coach Brandon Pritzl and Northern State University associate head coach Jared Swanson.

The moves were first reported by Scott Venci of the Green Bay Press Gazette.

Owens is a Milwaukee native who played at Washington High School.  He was an assistant at Loyola University Maryland last season and had previous assistant coaching stints at Holy Cross, Utah Valley, Oregon State and Montana.  He played guard at Wisconsin form 2000 to 2004 under Will Ryan’s father Bo Ryan.

Pritzl scored 1,337 points at De Pere and was the Fox River Classic Conference player of the year as a senior in 2010.  He was a three-year starter at shooting guard at Hillsdale and went on to serve as an assistant at that school under John Tharp.

Swanson spent last season at NSU with previous stints at NDSU and Ohio.  He started his coaching career as a grad assistant at Boise State.

Green Bay set to hire Ryan

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The UW-Green Bay Phoenix is negotiating with Will Ryan to become the schools next men’s head basketball coach.  The Wheeling University coach would replace Linc Darner, who was let go in May with six years left on his contract.

The University reportedly has offered Ryan two deals, a four year deal at $200,000 per season and a six year deal at $175,000 a year.

Ryan is the oldest son of former Wisconsin coach and College Basketball Hall of Famer Bo Ryan.  He would become the eighth coach in Green Bay history.

The 41-year-old Ryan played collegiately at UW-Platteville and UW-Milwaukee for his father and started his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Wisconsin.

 

Wisconsin assistant Howard Moore involved in tragic crash

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Howard Moore – Photo Courtesy of Wisconsin Athletics

Wisconsin Badger men’s assistant basketball coach Howard Moore was involved in a head-on collision on Saturday in Michigan.  The accident took the life of his wife, Jennifer, and daughter, Jaidyn.  Moore and his son, Jerrell, both survived.

According to reports, Jerrell’s injuries were minor, while Howard Moore didn’t suffer any life-threatening injuries but he was in a coma on Saturday.

A 23-year-old woman was reportedly driving the wrong way on M-14 early Saturday and caused the multiple-vehicle crash.  The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

News of the accident was followed by an outpouring of support on social media.  What is evident is that [Read more…]

Ryan to enter college basketball Hall of Fame

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Bo Ryan

Former Wisconsin basketball coaching legend Bo Ryan will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday.  Wisconsin’s staff and players are expected to attend the ceremony Sunday night (7:30).

The Badgers will face Baylor on Monday night in the Hall of Fame Classic at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.  Creighton and UCLA will play in the first game with the winners and losers to play on Tuesday.

The 69-year-old Ryan went 364-130 in 14-plus seasons at Wisconsin.  He finished 172-68 in Big Ten play.

Under Ryan, the Badgers won four Big Ten regular-season titles and never finished outside the top four of the Big Ten standings.  Ryan led the Badgers to the NCAA Tournament all 14 seasons and was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year four times.

Joining Ryan in the 2017 class is Scott May, Indiana; Tim Duncan, Wake Forest; Rick Mount, Purdue; Jay Williams, Duke; John Stockton, Gonzaga; Paul Silas, Creighton; and Cleo Hill, Winston-Salem.

Badgers draw Baylor in Hall of Fame Classic

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Bo Ryan

The Wisconsin men’s basketball team will face Baylor in the semifinals of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City.  The two teams will meet in the second semifinal on November 20 at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN2.

UCLA and Creighton will meet in the first semifinal at 6 p.m. on ESPNU.

Wisconsin and Baylor have met just once before, in the Sweet 16 of the 2014 NCAA Tournament.  The Badgers pulled out a 69-52 win.

Bo Ryan coached that Wisconsin team.  He will be inducted into the NCB Hall of Fame one day earlier at the Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland in Kansas City.

Ryan inducted into College Basketball Hall of Fame

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Bo Ryan

Former Wisconsin head men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan will take his place among the legends of college basketball this fall when he is inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Ryan is one of eight individuals that make up the Class of 2017, joining Wake Forest’s Tim Duncan, Winston-Salem State’s Cleo Hill, Indiana’s Scott May, Purdue’s Rick Mount, Creighton’s Paul Silas, Gonzaga’s John Stockton and Duke’s Jay Williams.

The 2017 Hall of Fame Induction Celebration will take place on Sunday, Nov. 19 at the Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland in Kansas City, Missouri.  The Wisconsin men’s basketball team will then participate in the Hall of Fame Classic over the next two days, along with Baylor, Creighton and UCLA.

With a remarkable 27 postseason appearances on his resume, Ryan took basketball to new heights in the state of Wisconsin.  Ryan’s head coaching career began at UW-Platteville, where he won 353 games from 1984 through 1999 and guided the program to four NCAA Division III national titles. [Read more…]

Ryan, Moncrief named finalists for basketball Hall of Fame

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Bo Ryan – (Photo by David Stluka)

Former Milwaukee Bucks star Sidney Moncrief and former Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan were named finalists for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

The announcement came in New Orleans during the NBA all-star weekend.  Moncrief was named a finalist for the first time.  It’s the third time for Ryan.

Moncrief was a two-time NBA defensive player of the year with the Bucks and five-time all-star.  He was the Bucks first round draft pick in 1979 and played 10 seasons.

Ryan spent 32 seasons as a collegiate head coach before retiring in December 2015.  He finished his career 26th on the NCAA’s all-time victory list with 747.  He went 364-130 in 14-plus seasons at Wisconsin.

Moncrief and Ryan are among 14 finalists named for consideration in the 2017 class.  The final class will be announced April 3, before the NCAA Championship game.

 

Gard wins Coach of the Year honor

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Greg Gard

Wisconsin Badger head men’s basketball coach Greg Gard has been selected as the 2016 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year, announced on Monday by CollegeInsider.com.

The Phelan award, which is presented annually to the nation’s top Division I men’s basketball coach, is named in honor of the legendary coach who spent his entire career at Mount Saint Mary’s University.  Phelan led the Mountaineers to the 1962 NCAA Men’s Division II Basketball Championship.  After coaching 49 years, he retired in 2003 having amassed 830 career wins.

Gard took over as interim head coach at Wisconsin following the Dec. 15 retirement of long-time head coach Bo Ryan.  Gard turned the Badgers around and guided them to a 12-6 Big Ten record and a fourth-place finish in the conference.

The Badgers finished 22-13, including a 15-8 record under Gard.  Wisconsin earned its 18th-straight berth in the NCAA tournament.  Gard became the first coach in NCAA history to lead his team to the Sweet 16 in his inaugural season as head coach since Xavier’s Chris Mack in 2010.

Bo Ryan won the award back in 2008.

Badgers add Krabbenhoft to assistant coaching staff

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Bucky Badger logoWisconsin head basketball coach Greg Gard has added former Badger standout Joe Krabbenhoft to his assistant coaching staff.

Krabbenhoft has served as an assistant at South Dakota State for the past three seasons.  He played for the Badgers from 2005 through 2009.  The former Badger served as the video coordinator on Bo Ryan’s staff at Wisconsin during the 2012-’13 season and then moved on to South Dakota State.

Krabbenhoft appeared in 136 games, with 70 starts for Wisconsin.  He helped the Badgers to a record of 100-36 and four NCAA tournament appearances during his four seasons.

Gard and Krabbenhoft are expected to meet with reporters on Tuesday afternoon in Madison.

Ryan missed out on Naismith HOF, again!

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Bo Ryan (Photo by David Stluka)

Bo Ryan (Photo by David Stluka)

Bo Ryan won’t be a part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2016 class.  The ten-member class was announced on Monday in Houston at the Final Four.

Ryan had been one of 14 finalists announced back in February.  The 68-year-old Ryan was a finalist in 2015 after leading the Wisconsin Badgers to the final four for the second straight season.

When Ryan retired in December, he left the game with a record of 747-233 in 32 seasons of coaching.  That included a 364-130 mark in 14-plus seasons at UW.

The Badgers under Bo Ryan never missed the NCAA tournament and won four Big Ten Conference regular season titles and three Big Ten tournament titles.  The Badgers never finished worse than fourth in the Big Ten.