Feb. 1, 2008

Milwaukee game notes

GREEN BAY GAME DAY
Game 20: Green Bay vs. Milwaukee
Saturday, Feb. 2 • 2 p.m. CT
Klotsche Center • Milwaukee, Wis.

TELEVISION Time Warner Sports/ESPN Full Court
RADIO AM 1400 WDUZ in Green Bay area
INTERNET AUDIO http://uwgbathletics.cstv.com/multimedia/wbb-audio.html
INTERNET VIDEO http://www.horizonleaguenetwork.tv
LIVESTATS http://www.uwgbathletics.cstv.com

The Green Bay women's basketball team (15-4, 7-1) will head to Milwaukee Saturday to take on instate and Horizon League rival Milwaukee at 2 p.m. in a key League matchup.

Saturday's game will be televised live on Time Warner Sports in Wisconsin and ESPN Full Court. Bob Brainerd will provide the play-by-play call with Maria Viall offering analysis.

Saturday's contest will also air live on AM 1400 WDUZ "The Fan" in the Green Bay area, with Bruce VandenPlas on the call. Live audio is also available here.

Phoenix Fast Fact: Head coach Matt Bollant is one win away from his 150th collegiate coaching victory. Bollant is 149-42 in his sixth year as a collegiate head coach, including his 15-4 mark this season with Green Bay.

Scouting Green Bay: Green Bay pulled away from a nip and tuck contest Jan. 26 against UIC with a key 10-2 run late in the game as the Phoenix posted a 75-60 win at the Kress Center. Erin Templin followed up her career-best game from Jan. 23 against Loyola with her first collegiate double-double, notching 11 points with 10 rebounds in the win. Rachel Porath led the Phoenix in the scoring column with 17 points, including 11 in the second half, as all five starters were in double figures.

It's that time of year when the loom of March Madness has people hunting down RPI, or Rating Percentage Index. The table at the right lists where Green Bay ranks, as of Jan. 28, in various RPIs available on the internet. One thing of note on the season: The Horizon League is currently ranked 16th among 31 conferences, its highest ranking in the last nine years and considerably better than the league's 26th place ranking last season.

Green Bay has appeared in various 2008 NCAA tournament bracket prognostications recently. According to Jerry Palm at collegerpi.com, Green Bay will be at 13 seed facing No. 4 seed LSU. Charlie Creme of espn.com also has the Phoenix as a No. 13 seed but facing fourth-seeded Old Dominion in the first round. (To define that fancy word in the headline, "Interdisciplinary" is to learn multiple subjects; it's what UW-Green Bay's focus is academically in "Connecting Learning to Life.")

Scouting Milwaukee: After going 5-6 in non-conference play and dropping its Horizon League opener to Wright State, The Panthers have won six of its last seven and are one game behind Green Bay in the league standings. The Panthers are coming off a close 54-51 win over Loyola Jan. 26.

Milwaukee boasts Horizon League preseason player of the year Traci Edwards. Against Loyola, Edwards tallied game highs of 22 points and nine rebounds, on par with her season averages of 19.3 points and 9.9 rebounds per game.

Sandy Botham, the senior coach of the Horizon League, is in her 12th season at Milwaukee. She boasts a 191-143 record overall and is one win away from matching former Green Bay head coach Kevin Borseth's all-time Horizon League win mark of 125 league wins.
All-time series: Green Bay leads, 44-17
Green Bay vs. UWM at Milwaukee: 14-11
Green Bay's overall streak: W3