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Green Bay captures Horizon League men’s title

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Green Bay Phoenix logo 2The Green Bay Phoenix earned their first Horizon League Tournament Championship in 20 years with a
78-69 win over Wright State in the Championship game of the 2016 Horizon League men’s basketball tournament on Tuesday night at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

Jordan Fouse led the Phoenix with 16 points on the way to being named the Tournament MVP.  Teammates Carrington Love and Charles Cooper joined Fouse on the All-Tournament team, along with Wright State’s JT Yoho and Valparaiso junior guard Alec Peters. [Read more…]

Green Bay Upsets Valpo in Horizon League semifinals

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Jordan Fouse

Jordan Fouse

Jordan Fouse had 25 points and 10 rebounds to help fourth-seeded Green Bay pull out a 99-92 upset victory over top-seeded Valparaiso at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

Alec Peters had 32 for the Crusaders, including a layup at the buzzer that forced overtime.  Valparaiso had trailed by six points with less than two minutes remaining.

It was all Green Bay in overtime as they jumped out to a 7-2 run and then the Phoenix (22-12) held on for their 22nd win of the season.

Charles Cooper finished with 24 points and Carrington Love 23 for the Phoenix.  They’ll face Wright State in tonight’s 6 p.m. Championship game.

Wright State advances

Wright State advanced to the Horizon League Championship game against Green Bay tonight.  The Raiders got 18 points off the bench from Mark Alstork in a 59-55 win over second-seeded Oakland.  The third-seeded Raiders improved to 22-12 on the year.

The winner of tonight’s Green Bay/Wright State game secures the Horizon League’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

Tiby, Love named All Horizon League first team

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Matt Tiby

Matt Tiby

Milwaukee Panther forward Matt Tiby and Green Bay Phoenix guard Carrington Love have been named to the All-Horizon League men’s basketball first team.

Tiby, a senior, led the Panthers with 16 points and eight rebounds a game.  He has 256 rebounds this season and in three years as a Panther has registered the top three rebounding seasons in Milwaukee’s Division 1 History.

Love led Green Bay in scoring and steals this season with averages of 18.3 points and 2.5 steals per game.  The senior stepped up and filled the scoring void created by the graduation of two-time Horizon League Player of the Year [Read more…]

Horizon League roundup

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Jordan Fouse

Jordan Fouse

Jordan Fouse recorded a double-double for the sixth straight game and the Green Bay men’s basketball team held off Northern Kentucky 85-78 in Horizon League play on Thursday night.

Green Bay (14-9, 6-4 HL) needed some clutch free throws late to seal the win and secure the season sweep against the Norse (8-14, 4-7 HL).  After NKU knocked down a three-pointer with 51 seconds left to cut the Green Bay lead to four, Fouse made a pair of free throws and Turner Botz added another to hold off the Norse.

Fouse finished with 14 points and ten rebounds, notching his 15th career double-double and his seventh this season.  Fouse also registered four steals, the last of which tied him with Terry Evans for the all-time career record at Green Bay.  Fouse now sits on 237 career steals, needing just one more to take over the top spot. [Read more…]

Green Bay grinds out its second straight victory

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Jordan Fouse - Photo: Courtesy of the Green Bay Phoenix

Jordan Fouse – Photo: Courtesy of the Green Bay Phoenix

After starting the season 0-3,  the Green Bay Phoenix won their second straight on Tuesday night, 66-63 over the Akron Zips at the Resch Center.

Senior Jordan Fouse grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds, helping the Phoenix (2-3) pull out their second straight win.  Green Bay shot just 32-percent (22-of-68) from the field, two of 13 from beyond the arc (15.4-percent) and 20-of-37 (54.1-percent) from the free throw line.

Green Bay junior Charles Cooper (team high 14 points) hit one of two free throws in the closing seconds to put the Phoenix up three.  Akron (3-2) had one chance to tie but Antino Jackson’s three-point shot fell short at the buzzer.

Green Bay returns to action at Eastern Illinois (0-3) on Saturday night.

AUDIO: Coach Linc Darner on the win :20

AUDIO: Linc Darner says they’ll take the win :23

 

Green Bay Phoenix fall to 0-2

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Green Bay Phoenix logo 2Junior forward Kenneth Lowe scored a career high 23 points and pulled down nine rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Green Bay Phoenix from falling to 0-2, dropping a 103-90 decision to East Tennessee State early this morning.

The matchup was part of the annual 24 hour season tip-off marathon aired on ESPN2.

The Phoenix gave up 100 points in a game for the first time since 2004. [Read more…]

Green Bay’s Sykes repeats as HL Player of the Year

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Keifer Sykes

Keifer Sykes

Green Bay Phoenix senior guard Keifer Sykes is the Horizon League Player of the Year for the second-straight season.

Sykes becomes the first player since Detroit’s Rashad Phillips in 2000-01 to win back-to-back player of the year awards and the fifth player in the league’s history to win player of the year two or more times.  Sykes joins Tony Bennett (1990-91, 1991-92) as the only players in Green Bay’s Division 1 history to be named the conference player of the year twice.

For the second straight season, media members, head coaches and sports information directors voted Sykes as the top player in the league.  He was also voted All-Horizon League for the third time in his career. [Read more…]

Green Bay upset in Oakland

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Green Bay Phoenix logo 2The Green Bay Phoenix saw their 5-game win streak come to an end on Thursday night, falling to the Oakland Golden Grizzlies 69-66 in overtime.

Senior Keifer Sykes led four Green Bay players in double figures with a team-high 19 points, but missed key moments due to foul trouble after two second-half charges.

Oakland (6-12, 2-2 HL) missed a shot with 14 seconds left, giving the Phoenix a chance to tie the game.  But Green Bay (14-4, 3-1) couldn’t answer when Sykes missed a potential game-tying three-pointer with five seconds left.

Greg Mays added 15 points, Carrington Love 12 and Jordan Fouse had 11 points, eight rebounds and three steals for the Phoenix.

Green Bay returns to action Saturday afternoon at Detroit.

Green Bay Phoenix extends win streak to 5

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Green Bay Phoenix logo 2The Green Bay Phoenix extended their winning streak to five games and remained perfect at home for the season, knocking off Youngstown State (9-10, 0-4 HL) 82-67 on Sunday night.

Keifer Sykes led the charge for the Phoenix with 24 points and senior forward Greg Mays finished one point shy of his career high 24 points.  Mays had 23 points, eight rebounds, three assists and three blocked shots in his best performance of the season.

Along with his 24 points, Sykes added nine rebounds, six assists and two steals, passing [Read more…]

Sykes leads Green Bay past Milwaukee

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Keifer Sykes

Keifer Sykes

Senior guard Keifer Sykes scored 22 of his career-high 34 points in the first half as the Green Bay Phoenix (13-3, 2-0 HL) built a 20-point lead at halftime and cruised to a 79-63 win over the Milwaukee Panthers in Horizon League play Friday night at UWM Panther Arena.

Sykes hit 13 of 20 shots on the night, including 5 of 7 from three-point range.  It matched the 34 points he scored against the Panthers in a 93-86 overtime victory on Jan. 12, 2014 in Milwaukee.

Green Bay shot 56.7% from the field (17-30) in the first half.  Milwaukee hit just 34.8% (8-23).

Greg Mays finished with a double-double for the Phoenix (16 points and 11 rebounds), and junior Carrington Love added 15 points for Green Bay.  The Phoenix also got eight points, seven rebounds, four blocks and three steals from junior Jordan Fouse (Racine, Wis.).

The Panthers (5-12, 0-3) dropped their sixth in a row.  They were led by Steve McWhorter’s 21 points and Akeem Springs 18 points.

Green Bay returns home to host Youngstown State on Sunday evening (7pm) at the Resch Center.