GREEN BAY, Wis.
(GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The No. 21/15 Green Bay (17-1, 6-0 HL) women's basketball team will wrap
up its three-game homestand hosting in-state rival Milwaukee (6-11, 3-3 HL)
Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Kress Events Center. Saturday's contest will be the
only Horizon League game for both teams this week.
The game will feature the nation's top free-throw shooting
teams. Milwaukee currently leads the nation in the statistic shooting 80.2
percent while Green Bay is third shooting 79.4 percent. Last week the Phoenix
owned the top spot. Individually Hannah
Quilling (Eau Claire, Wis.) is pacing the Phoenix shooting 86 percent from
the charity stripe while senior Lindsay Laur leads the Panthers shooting 89
percent.
The Phoenix is currently on an
11-game winning streak against the Panthers, the longest in program history.
Green Bay has won the past 11 contests by an average of 13 points per game.
Overall the Phoenix is 51-17 and 31-4 in Green Bay against Milwaukee.
After snapping a nine-game
losing streak, the Panthers have won three consecutive games against league
opponents (Youngstown State, UIC and Loyola). Throughout its streak, Milwaukee
lost by an average of 10.5 points and since then has won by an average of 9.6
points per game. Laur is pacing Milwaukee averaging 17.3 points and 9.4
rebounds per game.
In league play, the Phoenix is
off to its best start since going 18-0 in the 2008-09 season. With its 6-0
start in conference play, Green Bay is beating its opponents by an average of
12.8 points while averaging 68.3 points per contest. Overall Julie Wojta (Mishicot, Wis.) leads the
Phoenix averaging 13.7 points per game while Kayla Tetschlag (Sheboygan, Wis.) has been leading the way on the
boards averaging 7.3. In league play alone, Tetschlag has been pacing the way
with 16.7 points and 8.5 boards per game.
Green Bay and Milwaukee know
each other better than any other opponent in the league. Of the 91 opponents
Green Bay has faced throughout the program's 38 seasons, the Phoenix has
battled the Panthers more than any other team, 68 times. To date, head coaches
Matt Bollant and Milwaukee's Sandy Botham are atop the Horizon League coaching
record lists. Bollant owns the best winning percentage in league games (.926)
while Botham has the most wins in league play (145).
Bench Production... With the Phoenix still without
sophomore starting guard Adrian Ritchie (De
Pere, Wis.), look for Green Bay's bench to continue to play more minutes. In
league games this season the Phoenix bench has outscored its opponents' bench
68-43 while playing 62 more minutes than its competition.
High Rankings... Green Bay enters Saturday's contest
with its highest ranking of the season in both Top 25 polls. This week the
Phoenix moved up two spots to No. 21 in the AP Poll and three spots to No. 15
in this week's ESPN/USA Today Top 25
Coach's Poll.
TV Timeout... Saturday's game will be shown on Time
Warner Cable Sports32 at 9:00 p.m.
Live Game Action... Phoenix fans can watch Saturday's game
live online here.
Joy of the
Journey...The
newest blog to GreenBayPhoenix.com takes you along and inside the Green Bay
women's basketball 2010-11 season as the team works toward a second consecutive
NCAA Tournament appearance and 13th consecutive regular season Horizon League
championship. Fans can check out the
women's basketball blog here
for updates throughout the season.
