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UW-Milwaukee loses three top players

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Just when it appeared UW-Milwaukee had steadied their ship in men’s basketball, the Panthers are losing three more players.

Junior guards Brock Stull and Jeremiah Bell, along with sophomore forward Bryce Nze, had all requested and been granted their release from the program, looking to transfer elsewhere.

The program had already lost a pair of sophomore scholarship guards (August Haas and Jeremy Johnson) in March, which means the Panthers have five scholarship players who have left the program.

If that isn’t enough, Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported a source saying, three of the top four players Milwaukee signed in the early signing period last fall, have also asked to be released from their national letters of intent.  Rosiak was the first to report the Milwaukee departures.

The players cited a number of reasons for leaving, including the program’s instability.  Current head coach Pat Baldwin is the third coach in three years.

The Panthers finished 16-17 last season, finishing fifth in the Horizon League with an 8-10 record.

Green Bay captures 4th straight Horizon League title

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Allie LeClaire

Senior guard Allie LeClaire scored 24 points and was named the tournament Most Valuable Player as the Green Bay Phoenix (29-3) knocked off Wright State 62-44 to capture the women’s Horizon League Championship on Tuesday in Detroit.

Senior teammate Jessica Lindstrom added 12 points and 14 rebounds for her 18th double-double of the season and 41st of her career.

Green Bay’s stellar defense held HL Player of the Year Chelsea Welch to just 13 points on 2-of-15 shooting.

The Phoenix captured their fourth straight HL title and 7th in the last eight years.  They are now 16-4 all-time in the tournament’s biggest game and continued their dominance over Wright State as well, winning its 62nd game in 66 all-time meetings.

The 29 wins by the Phoenix are the most since the 2012-13 season and it’s the sixth time in program history the team has reached that mark.

Green Bay now awaits its seeding in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, with the bracket being announced on Selection Monday at 6 p.m. on ESPN.

Marquette, Green Bay advancing to title games tonight

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Both Marquette and Green Bay are headed back to their respective conference title games today.

Allazia Blockton poured in a career-high 32 points to lead Marquette to a 76-70 win over Creighton in the semifinals of the Big East Tournament on Monday.

The Golden Eagles (23-8) will take on DePaul (25-7) in the Big East championship game at 6 p.m. tonight.

Amani Wilborn added 16 and Danielle King 12 for the Golden Eagles.

Green Bay advances

The Green Bay Phoenix (28-3) advanced to today’s Horizon League championship game against Wright State.  The Phoenix knocked off Youngstown State 66-45 in Monday’s semifinals, reaching the HL championship game for the eighth straight season.

Senior Jessica Lindstrom scored 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds to set a program Division 1 record with 1,000 career rebounds.

Today’s title game tips off at 11am from Detroit.

Green Bay women secure 20th straight Horizon League title

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Jessica Lindstrom – File Photo Courtesy of Green Bay Athletics

The Green Bay Phoenix women’s basketball team secured its 20th-consecutive regular-season conference championship at the Kress Center on Friday night, knocking off Oakland 78-48.

The Phoenix had already clinched a share of the title with Monday’s win over UIC, then Green Bay (25-3, 15-2 HL) won the title outright against the Golden Grizzlies.

Senior guard Allie LeClaire scored 13-points to move into the top 10 on Green Bay’s all-time scoring list.  LeClaire has 1,393 points in her career.

Green Bay led 22-13 after the first quarter and 40-22 at halftime.

Senior forward Jessica Lindstrom scored a game-high 16 points and 12 rebounds, her 15th double-double of the season and 38th of her career.

It is the 17th time in the unrivaled streak that Green Bay has secured the championship outright.

Green Bay wraps up the regular season on Sunday when the Phoenix welcomes Detroit Mercy to the Kress Center for a 1 p.m. Senior Day and Parents’ Day.

The Phoenix will be the number 1 seed at the Horizon League Tournament in Detroit, Michigan, with its first action coming in the Quarterfinals on March 3.

Milwaukee rolls past Detroit

In Milwaukee, the Panther women doubled up Detroit 90-45.  The 45 point victory margin is the third largest in school history.

 

Cohen leads Green Bay to comeback win in Oakland

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The Green Bay Phoenix hit a program-record 15 3-pointers and finished the game on a 14-3 run in a 96-90 win over Oakland in Horizon League play on Thursday night in Rochester, Michigan.

The Phoenix (11-19, 6-11 HL), got a career-high 36 points and 11 rebounds from Sandy Cohen III.  Cohen had 24 points in the second half alone.  The redshirt junior enjoyed the best game of his collegiate career, registering his fourth double-double.  He finished a career-high 4-for-6 from beyond the arc and hit 12 of his 13 free throw attempts.

Khalil Small added 20 points and pulled down eight rebounds.  It’s the 11th 20-plus point scoring effort for Small, who ranks second in the Horizon League in scoring.  Small also moved into 14th all-time in scoring in Green Bay program history, passing both Troy Cotton (2006-10) and Ben Berlowski (1992-96).

Green Bay closes out the regular season at Detroit on Saturday afternoon.

Milwaukee cruises past Detroit

The Milwaukee Panthers got 23 points and 15 rebounds from Bryce Nze to knock off Detroit 72-49 in Detroit.  The Panthers improved to 15-15 overall and 8-9 in Horizon League play.

The Panthers close out the regular season at Oakland on Sunday.

Borseth gets contract extension in Green Bay

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Kevin Borseth

Green Bay Phoenix women’s basketball coach Kevin Borseth has agreed to a contract extension with the school through the 2024-25 season on Monday.

“We hare very pleased to extend Kevin Borseth’s contract through the 2025 season,” said Director of Athletics Charles Guthrie.  “KB is unquestionably one of the finest basketball coaches in the country.  He embodies UW-Green Bay’s ongoing commitment to the development of our student-athletes.  We are thankful to Kevin and his family for all they’ve done to this point and we look forward to our program’s bright future under his leadership.”

Borseth, who recently led the Phoenix to its 19th-consecutive Horizon League title and the program’s 17th NCAA Tournament appearance last season, is in his 15th season overall at Green Bay and owns a winning percentage of .798 with the Phoenix.  He is 213-24 (.899) all-time in Horizon League play.

This season, Green Bay has piled up an impressive 23-3 record and is currently ranked in the Top 25 in both the Associated Press and USA Today polls.  Borseth has led GB to a 13-2 record in Horizon League play thus far, and is now two wins away from securing at least a share of the program’s 20th-straight Horizon League Regular Season Championship this season.

Borseth owns a career coaching record of 685-264, approaching the 700 career wins milestone.  he has coached a total of 31 years, including 15 years for Green Bay where he has amassed an impressive record of 373-94.  He has garnered Horizon League Coach of the Year honors in eight of his 14 seasons at Green Bay and will look to secure yet another No. 1 seed at Motor City Madness in Detroit.

 

Milwaukee & Green Bay fall short of Horizon League upsets

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Both Milwaukee and Green Bay fell just short in Horizon League upset bids on Thursday night.

The UW-Milwaukee Panthers dropped a 54-52 decision to conference co-leader Northern Kentucky.  The Panthers (13-14, 6-8 Horizon League) Jeremiah Bell missed a three-point attempt with three seconds to go that would have won it.

Bryce Barnes had 13 points to lead the Panthers.

In Dayton, Ohio, the Green Bay Phoenix fell to Horizon League co-leader Wright State 68-64.

The Phoenix (10-17, 5-9 HL) took an 11-point lead with just under 11 minutes remaining, but the Raiders (19-7, 11-2 HL) responded with a 12-0 run to get back the momentum and the eventual win.

Sandy Cohen had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Phoenix in defeat.

Green Bay wins at Northwestern

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Allie LeClaire led all scorers with a season-high 22 points, leading the No. 21/23 Green Bay Phoenix (10-1) to a 63-57 win over the Northwestern Wildcats (6-7) in Evanston on Tuesday.  The Phoenix improved to 10-1, capping its best start through non-conference play since the 2011-12 campaign.

Green Bay opened the game on a 7-0 run and led early 21-9 before the Wildcats started to put things together and make it a game.

The Phoenix secured its second win over a Big Ten program this season, having defeated in-state rival Wisconsin earlier in the season, 67-34.

Superior native Jessica Lindstrom tallied her fifth double-double of the season with 12 points and 10 rebounds in 35 minutes.  Caitlyn Hibner added 14 points on 5-for-10 shooting.

The Phoenix get some time off now.  They open Horizon League play on December 28 against Wright State in Dayton, Ohio.

 

Phoenix women favored to win 20th-consecutive HL Championship

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Kevin Borseth

For the 10th-consecutive year, the Green Bay Phoenix women’s basketball team will enter the season as the Horizon League preseason favorite.

Green Bay is fresh off its 19th-straight Horizon League Regular-Season Championship.  Head coach Kevin Borseth’s Phoenix squad received 21 of the 25 first-place votes in the poll and accumulated 246 points to lead the nearest school by 42 (Wright State).

Senior Jessica Lindstrom was selected to the preseason first-team after averaging 13.1 points and a team-high 9.8 rebounds a game last season.  Lindstrom received second team honors last season, as well as all-defensive team recognition back-to-back seasons.  The Superior native was named Horizon League Tournament MVP after scoring 15 points and grabbing nine rebounds in the championship game.

Fellow senior Allie LeClaire was named to the all-league second team after averaging 11.0 points a game and a team-best 3.8 assists per game.  The Green Bay, Wis., native was also the 35th player in program history to surpass the 1,000-point mark for Green Bay, doing so last season.

Green Bay will face UW-Whitewater in an exhibition on Thursday, October 26 (7 p.m.).

Cohen gets extra year in Green Bay

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Sandy Cohen III – Photo Courtesy of Green Bay Phoenix Athletics.

Green Bay men’s basketball junior Sandy Cohen III has been granted an NCAA waiver, receiving an additional year of athletic eligibility to be used in the 2018-19 season.  Cohen III will become eligible to play in his first game this season on Dec. 21 versus Bowling Green at the Resch Center, and will play out the remainder of his redshirt-junior year in 2017-18.

The Seymour, Wis., native came to Green Bay from Marquette in December 2016, before sitting out the 2016-17 season due to NCAA Division I transfer rules.  Cohen III has been practicing with the team since that time and traveled with the team to Puerto Rico in August, where he averaged 11.0 PPG and led the team in rebounding with 5.5 RPG.

Cohen III will be ineligible for the first 12 games of this season, after transferring mid-season last year.

Green Bay opens practice on Monday, Oct. 9 and will face Ripon on Monday, Oct. 30, for its exhibition game at the Resch Center.  The Phoenix officially opens the regular season on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at Northern Illinois.

The Phoenix has been picked to finish sixth out of ten teams in a Horizon League preseason poll.  Oakland was picked to finish first, ahead of Northern Kentucky.  The Milwaukee Panthers are picked to finish eighth.