Back from Alaska: Third-place finish for team; another honor for Sykes

Two days after joining the program’s 1,000-point club and leading Green Bay men’s basketball to a third-place finish at the Great Alaska Shootout, junior guard Kiefer Sykes was named the Horizon League Player of the Week. Sykes averaged 24.7 points and 6.7 assists per game as coach Brian Wardle’s team beat solid Pepperdine and Tulsa squads and lost a close semifinal matchup with eventual champion Harvard, going 2-1 on the trip. Read more on Sykes and the team (which today ranks second nationally in blocked shots).