GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay men's basketball team returns to the Resch Center for the first time in February on Tuesday, hosting the defending national runner-up, Butler, at 7 p.m. Returning to its home floor where it is 9-3 this season and winners of six of its last seven games, the Phoenix will aim to end a current three-game slide.

Fans in attendance Tuesday night will have the opportunity to see the Lombardi Trophy, the championship trophy claimed by the Green Bay Packers with their win in the recent Super Bowl. Tuesday will be the first home game for Green Bay since the Packers brought the Lombardi Trophy back to Titletown, and fans will have a chance to get a glimpse of the trophy during the Phoenix game. Tickets for the game are still available. For more information, please visit GreenBayPhoenix.com/tickets or call the Green Bay ticket office at 920.465.2625.

The Phoenix averaged 61.5 points per game in two road losses this past week, but in its last outing at the Resch Center, Green Bay scored a season-high 85 points while hitting 11 three-pointers and dishing out 20 assists in a win over Detroit.

Senior Rahmon Fletcher (Kansas City, Mo.), who leads the team at 16 points per game, will look for a bigger scoring outburst after scoring a combined 19 points last week. Fletcher averages 17.5 points per game at home this season.

Butler has been on a roll of late, winning four-straight contests and entering fresh off a 66-51 victory over Detroit at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Saturday. Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year Shelvin Mack scored a career-high 32 points in that outing and has led the Bulldogs in scoring in four of the past five games.

Tuesday will mark the second time this season that Green Bay and Butler have met on the ESPN family of networks. In the first meeting, back on Jan. 30, junior Steve Baker led the Phoenix with a career-high 20 points but Butler senior Matt Howard scored 29 points and added 16 rebounds to lead his team to an 81-75 win.

PHOENIX NOTES

• INSIDE THE SERIES: Butler leads the all-time series with Green Bay 29-14 and has won 11 of 18 meetings in Green Bay. The Bulldogs have won three-straight games in the series, with the Phoenix last winning at the Resch Center, 75-66, on Feb. 2, 2009. Butler won last season's meeting in Green Bay 75-57 on Jan. 29, 2010.
• THE LAST MEETING: Junior Steve Baker (St. Paul, Minn.) scored a team-high 20 points and Fletcher led a furious comeback with 18 as the Phoenix rallied from 21 points down. Fletcher had a potential game-tying three rim out with under a minute before Butler closed out an 81-75 win at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Jan. 21.
• BULLDOGS PLAYER TO WATCH: Senior Matt Howard is averaging 17.1 points and 7.8 rebounds per game and is the running for the Horizon League Player of the Year award. The 6-foot-8 senior had 29 points and 16 rebounds the first time the two squads met this season. Howard is shooting 45.9 percent from long range and has gotten to the free-throw line 159 times this season, hitting 128.
• WILLIAMS WATCH: Green bay junior Jarvis Williams (Milwaukee, Wis.) has scored at least eight points in six-straight games, including double figures in five contests. Williams is averaging 11.0 points and 6.5 rebounds during that stretch.
• TOP-10 OF ALL-TIME: Fletcher continues to work his way up the Green Bay scoring chart. On pace to finish his career in fifth place all-time, Fletcher is currently in seventh place on the scoring ledger. He is seven points away from becoming the seventh Green Bay player ever to score 1,600 career points and 27 points from becoming sixth all-time.
• RECORD BREAKER: Freshman Alec Brown (Winona, Minn.) had three blocks in each of Green Bay's contests last week, and the 7-foot-1 center now has 58 blocks this season. He is averaging 2.2 per game, and the freshman broke the single-season record previously shared by Larry Hill (1991-92) and Terry Evans (2006-07). Brown, who ranks third in the Horizon League in blocks per game, also holds the school records for block in a game, blocks in a game at the Resch Center and blocks in a season by a freshman.
• TOUGH STRETCH: Green Bay, who opened February with three-straight road games, will play just two of nine contests in the month at the Resch Center. The travels for the team include a non-conference trip to Southern Illinois this Saturday.