Tag: NCAA tournament
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The program will continue
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When Tiffany Mor’s career ended with a 65-55 loss to New Mexico in the first round of the 2005 NCAA tournament, the UW-Green Bay standout wrote a note to her coach, Kevin Borseth. Even losing four starters, she was confident the newcomers would uphold the tradition. “I don’t know how we’re going to do (next…
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Final score: LSU 75, Green Bay 71
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The UW-Green Bay women’s basketball team (29-3) played LSU Sunday night on the Tigers’ home floor and staged a thrilling second-half comeback before falling 75-71 in an NCAA opening-round game. The Phoenix trailed by 18 in the second half but cut it to three late. LSU goes on to play No. 3 seed Penn State…
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Green Bay Athletics announces viewing party for fans at The Bar East
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Fans unable to make the trip down to watch No. 11 seed Green Bay battle sixth-seeded LSU in Baton Rouge, La. on Sunday can follow the action in a Phoenix Fan viewing party. In partnership with The Bar East, the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association and the Phoenix Fund will sponsor the event held on Sunday…
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Go Phoenix! Women win league championship, earn NCAA bid
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The UW-Green Bay Phoenix women’s basketball team earned its third straight Horizon League championship Sunday, March 17, notching a 54-38 home court win over Loyola. The victory earned the women an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, where they will play LSU in first-round action at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 24 in Baton Rouge, La.
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Phoenix draws SEC power LSU in NCAA first-rounder in Baton Rouge
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For the second-straight season, the Green Bay women’s basketball team will return to a site it has played in recent years and open the NCAA Tournament as a road team. No. 20/20 Green Bay (29-2), the Horizon League regular season and tournament champion, received the No. 11 seed in the Spokane Region and will play…
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Disrespect? Naw… just gotta beat who they put in front of you
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The Green Bay Press-Gazette suggests a team with a No. 20 national ranking and a 24-game winning streak might have earned a better NCAA assignment than a No. 11 seed playing on its opponent’s home floor, but UW-Green Bay coaches and players are saying all the right things. They just want to play. Read more.…
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Phoenix women outlast Loyola for automatic NCAA berth
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After winning its third-straight Horizon League Championship on Sunday afternoon with its 24th-straight victory, UW-Green Bay (29-2) has secured a bid to its fifth consecutive and 14th all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The Phoenix, ranked No. 20 in the nation, defeated third-seeded Loyola 54-38 on Sunday to win the program’s 13th conference tournament title…
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Green Bay golfer Ebert competes in NCAA Regionals today
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Chad Ebert, a junior from Kenosha, won the individual title at the Horizon League men’s golf tournament in late April. The win earned Ebert a trip to the NCAA Regionals. Ebert is the first Phoenix golfer to compete in an NCAA Division I golf championship. He was scheduled to tee off at 9 a.m. CT…
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Tennis tumbles at Malibu
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With all the May Commencement hype over the weekend, we neglected to report that the Green Bay men’s tennis team put forth a strong effort in its first NCAA Tournament appearance May 11, but the hosts from Pepperdine proved to be too much as the Phoenix fell to the seventh-ranked Waves 4-0 at the Ralphs-Straus…
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PS – Kentucky falls just short of Final Four
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Phoenix fans know that the Kentucky Wildcats, who barely nipped the Phoenix last week to advance in the NCAA Tournament, handled Gonzaga in the Sweet 16 round to advance to the Elite Eight. (It might have been us.) Well, Kentucky played No. 1 regional seed UConn dead even for a half Tuesday night, but the…