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Green Bay Phoenix win third straight, sweep Oakland

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After dropping nine straight games to start the season, the Green Bay Phoenix have won three-straight, earning a two game sweep over Oakland in Green Bay over the weekend.

Amari Davis poured in 25 points for the Phoenix as they knocked off Oakland in the series finale on Saturday, 87-78.  The Phoenix also got 37 points from their bench in the victory, handing coach Will Ryan his third victory in Green Bay.

Green Bay’s 87 points is its second-highest total of the season, only behind the 91-points they scored against Eastern Illinois in double overtime.

Green Bay is scheduled to head to Detroit for a two-game weekend series, Friday and Saturday at Calihan Hall.

 

Ryan Era in Green Bay opens with a loss

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The Will Ryan in Green Bay started with a 99-69 loss to the Minnesota Golden Gophers in Minneapolis on Wednesday night.

The Phoenix outscored the Gophers 47-46 in the second half and drew to within 10 points at 70-60 with just under eight minutes left to play before Minnesota went on a run to finish with a 30-point win.

Reigning Freshman of the Year (Horizon League) Amari Davis picked up where he left off last season, pouring in a team-high 17 points, hitting 7 of his 8 free throw attempts.

Three other Green Bay players finished in double figures.   Josh Jefferson had 14 points, PJ Pipes added 13 and Paris Taylor had 10 points to go along with seven rebounds.

Both teams struggled from distance with Green Bay hitting just 3 of 16 and Minnesota finishing 7 of 34.  Marcus Carr had 35 points and 7 rebounds, hitting 12 of 22 from the field for the Gophers.

Green Bay is off until Tuesday when they travel to Madison to face the Badgers at the Kohl Center.

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.