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Green Bay adds Darner as the school’s 7th head coach (AUDIO)

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Green Bay head coach Linc Darner

Green Bay head coach Linc Darner

Florida Southern coach Linc Darner was a front-runner for the Green Bay Phoenix men’s basketball coaching position from the very beginning.  Green Bay athletic director Mary Ellen Gillespie said what set Darner apart from the rest of the coaching candidate pool was his total presentation.

Gillespie said, “His years of head coaching experience, his winning programs at every stop, the x’s and o’s, how he runs a program, how he interacts with parents, donors and fans, how he mentors and guides young men and how he works with colleagues across campus.”

Gillespie offered the job to Darner on Tuesday and he accepted.  He was introduced at a news conference this morning.  The reason for the 1-day delay?  Darner thought it was most appropriate that he return to Florida to tell his players that he would be leaving for his dream of coaching Division 1 college basketball.  It’s another quality trait that Darner possesses, insuring Gillespie that she picked the right man for the job. [Read more…]

Green Bay names Linc Darner to replace Wardle

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Green Bay Phoenix logo 2Linc Darner has been named the seventh head coach in Green Bay men’s basketball program history.  Darner is a 13-year head coaching veteran with 292 wins and a career winning percentage of over .700.  Darner led Florida Southern to the 2015 NCAA Division II National Championship.

Darner will officially be introduced at a news conference on Wednesday morning at 10am during a press conference on campus.

In nine seasons at Florida Southern, Darner compiled a record of 218-72.  The Moccasins advanced to the NCAA Tournament in eight consecutive seasons (2008-15) and won six Sunshine State Conference regular season and tournament titles. [Read more…]

Mays scores career high 34 in Green Bay victory (AUDIO)

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Greg Mays

Greg Mays

Senior forward Greg Mays had a career high 34 points, 26 of the 34 by halftime to lead the Green Bay Phoenix to a
96-76 Horizon League victory over visiting Detroit (12-17, 5-9 HL) at the Resch Center.

Mays hit 8-of-12 field goal attempts and 10-of-12 at the free throw line in the opening 20 minutes, scoring 11-straight points during a 16-3 run to turn a 31-31 tie into a 47-34 lead at the half.  He tied the Resch Center record for points in a half. [Read more…]

Sykes buries game winner for Green Bay

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Brian Wardle

Brian Wardle

Senior Keifer Sykes scored all 11 of his points in the second half, including the game winning jumper with 17-seconds left to play, leading the Green Bay Phoenix to a 63-62 win over the Youngstown State Penguins in Youngstown, Ohio.

Sykes spent much of the first half in the locker room, getting stitched up after receiving a cut above his eye.

Green Bay trailed 58-48 with 8:14 left to play, but the Phoenix defense held YSU to only four points and outscored the Penguins 15-4 to end the game. [Read more…]

Green Bay Phoenix wins 9th straight at home (Video)

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(VGreg Mays scored 20 points and Keifer Sykes added 19 points and nine assists to lead the Green Bay Phoenix to a 78-55 win over Illinois-Chicago at the Resch Center on Tuesday night.  It’s the 9th straight home court victory for Green Bay.

Sykes has now scored in double figures in 32 straight Horizon League games and in 59 of the last 61.

Mays hit 10 of 15 shots from the field.  Two of the ten were dunks, giving him 100 dunks in his Phoenix career.

Sykes season high nine assists moved him past Frank Nardi into fourth place on the schools all-time list with 474.  The program’s all-time leader in free throws made 11 of 13 to reach 500 in his career (509).

The Phoenix ( 16-4, 5-1 HL) shot 50.9% from the field for the game and held UIC to 36.5% and 1 of 10 three-pointers.

Green Bay welcomes Valparaiso (18-3, 5-1) to the Resch Center on Friday in a battle for first place in the Horizon League.
Following is coach Brian Wardle’s post game press conference.

Green Bay selected preseason favorite in Horizon League

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Keifer Sykes

Keifer Sykes

The Green Bay Phoenix men’s basketball team has been tabbed as the preseason favorite for the second-straight season, and senior Keifer Sykes has been named the league’s preseason Player of the Year.  Junior Jordan Fouse was also voted to the Preseason All-Horizon League Second Team.

In voting by head coaches, communications directors and media members from around the league.  Green Bay received 32 of 41 first-place votes and a total of 357 points.  Cleveland State was the only other team to receive a first-place vote, picking up nine votes and 335 total points.

Last season, Green Bay was tabbed as the preseason favorite and Brian Wardle’s club followed through by winning 14 of 16 games and claiming the regular season title.  The Phoenix finished the 2013-14 season with an overall record of 24-7.

Sykes was named the Preseason Player of the Year in a landslide vote.  As a junior in 2013-14, Sykes averaged 20.3 points, 4.9 assists and 4.4 rebounds per game.  He was named the Horizon League Player of the Week a school and league record six times.

Sykes enters his final season in a Phoenix jersey ranked tenth on the all-time scoring ledger with 1,492 career points.

Fouse was recognized as a preseason All-Horizon League selection for the first time in his career.  The junior was voted to the conference’s all-defensive team as a freshman and sophomore, finishing runner-up to teammate Alec Brown in 2013-14’s Defensive Player of the Year voting.  Defensively, Fouse collected a single-season program record 68 steals.

 

Green Bay adds 6’11 big man

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The Green Bay Phoenix are losing 7’1 center Alec Brown to graduation.  Coach Brian Wardle may have found his replacement.

Henry Uwadiae (Nigeria) will join the Phoenix beginning with the 2014-15 season.  The 6’11, 240-pound transfer from Kirkwood Community College in Iowa, will be eligible immediately as a sophomore next season.

Uwadiae played in 2013-14 as a freshman for Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  The center with a 7-foot-5 wingspan helped the Eagles to a 21-10 overall record and a 10-4 mark in conference play.

Uwadiae attended the Evelyn Mack Academy in Charlotte, North Carolina as a high school senior.  He originally committed to Wichita State before enrolling at Kirkwood for junior college.  As a senior in high school, he was given a very high-grade of 85 by ESPN Recruiting analysts.

Uwadiae signed with Marshall and was set to join the Thundering Herd in 2014-15, but after a coaching change the program granted him his release.

Wardle gets new 5-year deal at Green Bay

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After winning the Horizon League’s regular season men’s basketball title

Brian Wardle

Brian Wardle

this past season, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has rewarded head coach Brian Wardle with a new five-year contract.

Green Bay won 24-games this past season but missed out on the NCAA Tournament after being upset by Milwaukee in the Horizon League Tournament semifinals.

With a 14-2 league record, Wardle led the Phoenix to their first regular season conference title since 1995-96. [Read more…]

Wardle named 2014 Skip Prosser Man of the Year

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Green Bay head men’s basketball coach Brian Wardle was named the 2014 Skip Prosser Man of the Year award at the annual

Brian Wardle

Brian Wardle

CollegeInsider.com awards banquet on Friday afternoon in Dallas.

The Skip Prosser Award was established in 2008 to honor those who not only achieve success on the basketball court but who display moral integrity off of it as well.  The award is named after the late Skip Prosser, who died suddenly in 2007 while the head coach at Wake Forest.

Prosser posted a career record of 291-146 in 14 seasons as a head coach at Loyola, Xavier and Wake Forest.

In 2013-14, Wardle guided the Phoenix to the program’s best season in nearly two decades.  Green Bay finished 24-7 and used a 14-2 mark in Horizon League play to claim the conference’s regular season title for the first time since 1995-96.  He was named the Horizon League Coach of the Year and the National Association of Basketball Coaches District 12 Coach of the year.

Wardle lands Coach of the Year honor

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Green Bay Phoenix head men’s basketball coach Brian Wardle has been named the

Brian Wardle

Brian Wardle

2014 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) UPS District 12 Coach of the Year.

Wardle joins Dick Bennett (1992, 1994) and Mike Heideman (1996) as Green Bay coaches to have won the honor.

In his fourth season leading the Phoenix, Wardle guided Green Bay to the program’s best season in nearly two decades.  Green Bay posted a 24-7 overall record and used a 14-2 mark in Horizon League play to claim the conference’s regular season title for the first time since 1995-96.

Wardle’s overall record at the school is 71-55.  Under his leadership, Green Bay has improved its overall and Horizon League win totals in each of the past four seasons.