UW-Milwaukee is very good… and UW-Green Bay still has a shot

If you watched UW-Milwaukee dispatch Wright State Thursday night on ESPN to win the men’s Horizon League Tournament championship and the league’s spot in the NCAA tourney, it wasn’t unlike the Panthers’ victory over UW-Green Bay last weekend. (Except it wasn’t as close.) Milwaukee won four games in a week including the last two before packed houses on their higher-seeded opponents’ home floors. As for the Phoenix NCAA hopes, most observers consider Green Bay a decided long shot, but at least one columnist makes a case for the Phoenix in the Big Dance. He quotes Coach Brian Wardle, at length. Read more.
 

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