Tag: NCAA tournament
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Phoenix men draw No. 13 seed Notre Dame in NCAA tennis opener
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The UW-Green Bay men’s tennis team, champions of the Horizon League, will face No. 13 overall seed Notre Dame in an NCAA Division I tournament opener on Friday, May 9. If they get by the Fighting Irish, the Phoenix men will face the winner of the Northwestern/Mississippi opener in the second round the following day.…
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Phoenix men plan viewing party for Tuesday’s NCAA tennis pairings
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Congratulations again to the Green Bay men’s tennis team on winning the Horizon League championship and qualifying for the program’s second NCAA tournament appearance in three seasons. Coach Mark Thomas and his team will learn their opening-round assignment Tuesday afternoon. (A selection-show viewing party will take place at the Kress Events Center’s Special Events Room…
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Scott’s heroics propel UW-Green Bay tennis to NCAAs
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It came down to the last match of a sunny, windy afternoon Sunday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Sophomore Howard Scott of Exeter, England refused to give up and in the end that attitude propelled No. 1 Green Bay (18-7) to the title at the 2014 Horizon League Men’s Tennis Championship. Scott rallied from down 5-1…
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Bubble Watch: Phoenix a ‘mid-major cause celebre’
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Coach Brian Wardle and his Phoenix men’s basketball team have high hopes to hear their names called when the brackets are announced for the 68-team NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. That announcement will be made on national television early Sunday evening (March 16). Judging from the prognostications of those who follow college basketball for a living,…
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UW-Milwaukee is very good… and UW-Green Bay still has a shot
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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…
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Reunion of 1994 NCAA team adds to big weekend
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The annual alumni reunion game of former Phoenix men’s basketball players is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday (Feb. 1) at the Resch Center. The scrimmage, as always, is free and open to the public, taking place hours before the nationally televised Green Bay-Wright State showdown on the same court later in the day. This year’s…
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Where we watched: Alumni Association, Phoenix Fund host NCAA viewing party
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It was a tough loss for the Phoenix women Sunday, but the team had terrific support in both Baton Rouge and Green Bay. Closer to home, Phoenix fans packed the back room at The Bar East, cheering for their team during a standing-room-only watch party co-sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association and the Phoenix…
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Gilbertson has biggest game on biggest stage
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In Sunday night’s 75-71 loss for the Green Bay women’s basketball team, the Phoenix seniors shined once again but one – reserve forward Jenny Gilbertson of Wabasha, Minn. – had the best game of her career, stats-wise. The Phoenix was trailing by 13 points with 6:41 to play when Gilbertson made back-to-back three-pointers to start…
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Three losses, by only 11 points
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With the narrow loss at LSU, the Phoenix finished the season at 29-3 and saw its 24-game winning streak come to an end. Having lost previously only to James Madison and Central Michigan, Green Bay experienced three losses this season by just 11 combined points. Justin Grones of the SID Office has a game recap…
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Photo gallery
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UW-Green Bay Athletics posted a nice photo gallery of Sunday night’s Green Bay/LSU game action, and crowd reaction.