By Murray Gleffe Correspondent GREEN BAY – The Green Bay men’s basketball team lost a pair of 12-point leads in an 81-77 nonconference loss to Indiana State 81-77 Nov. 9 at the Kress Events Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. “It was nice to have fans in the stands,” Green Bay …
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By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor GREEN BAY – The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men’s basketball team was picked to finish 11th this season in the Horizon League Preseason Coaches Poll. Don’t tell that to Head Coach Will Ryan and his players, though. “In this day and age, with social media, everyone sees what’s out there,” …
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By Greg Bates Correspondent GREEN BAY – Kamari McGee always had the idea to make his own T-shirts. But McGee, a freshman on the UW-Green Bay men’s basketball team, was hampered from designing and selling T-shirts by the NCAA. He didn’t want to violate rules set forth by the national organization which governs intercollegiate athletics. …
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INDIANAPOLIS – Sophomore Amari Davis and redshirt freshman Lucas Stieber, both of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men’s basketball team, have been named to the All-Horizon League teams, which were voted on by the league’s 12 head coaches. Davis received a second-team nod, while Stieber was placed on the all-freshman team. Davis, who finished fourth in the league …
By Greg Bates Correspondent GREEN BAY – In high school, Lucas Stieber did it all on the basketball court. As a senior at Green Bay Southwest, he averaged 13.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. This season, as a redshirt freshman on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men’s basketball team, Stieber hasn’t needed …
By Murray Gleffe Correspondent GREEN BAY — After losing nine consecutive games to start the season, the Green Bay men’s basketball team appears to be turning the corner. Trailing by four points late in overtime, the Phoenix scored the final seven points of the game in an 84-81 Horizon League win over Oakland Jan. 8 …
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By Murray Gleffe Correspondent GREEN BAY — After playing Big Ten opponents Minnesota and Wisconsin to begin the 2020-21 season, the Green Bay men’s basketball team finally got its chance to play at home. And what an opener it was. George Dixon’s put-back at the buzzer lifted Eastern Illinois to a 93-91 double-overtime victory over …
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By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor GREEN BAY – Green Bay Southwest boys’ basketball player Lucas Stieber has a good pedigree when it comes to playing sound defense. The grandson of former UW-Stevens Point, UW-Green Bay and University of Wisconsin coach Dick Bennett, Stieber was recently named the top senior defensive player as part of the …
