GREEN BAY, Wis.
(GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The No. 17/14 Green Bay (24-1, 13-0 HL) women's basketball team will look
to extend its regular-season winning streak against league opponents to 22
games when it travels to Milwaukee (9-15, 6-7 HL) Saturday to battle the
Panthers. The game will be broadcast live on Time Warner Sports 32 beginning at
2 p.m. at the Klotsche Center. With a win Saturday, Green Bay will clinch at
least a share of its 13th-consecutive regular-season Horizon League
Championship, the nation's longest active streak.
The Phoenix is coming off a 69-43 win over Loyola (11-12, 5-7
HL) in which Julie Wojta (Mishicot, Wis.) posted her third-consecutive
double-double grabbing a game and career-high 15 rebounds while scoring a
game-high 17 points in Green Bay's win. Meanwhile the Panthers overcame a
10-point first half deficit to lead UIC in the second half before falling 77-65
to the Flames, snapping Milwaukee's three-game winning streak.
Saturday's game features the top two teams in the conference
in three-point field-goal percentage against league opponents. Milwaukee is
pacing the way shooting 39 percent from beyond the arc while Green Bay is
second with 34 percent. Individually the Panthers' Angela Rodriguez leads the
way against league opponents shooting 48 percent from long range while Green
Bay's Celeste Hoewisch (Hortonville, Wis.) is second sinking 46 percent.
In the last meeting between these two teams on Jan. 22, Green
Bay started the game with a 32-9 run, forcing the Panthers to turn the ball
over 16 times throughout the first 14 minutes of play. The Phoenix tallied its
second-largest margin of victory over Milwaukee with the 87-39 win, the most
points scored by Green Bay since Nov. 29, 2009.
Dialing Long Distance... After shooting an average of 28.2
percent from three-point range throughout the first nine league games, Green
Bay has been dialing in from long distance sinking 50.7 percent from beyond the
arc in its past four conference games. Hoewisch is pacing the way for the
Phoenix shooting 43 percent from three-point land.
Rising in the National
Top 25 Polls... Green
Bay saw its highest ranking of the season in both of this week's national Top
25 polls. The Phoenix moved up one spot in the AP Top 25 Poll from No. 18 to
No. 17. In the ESPN/USA Today Coaches
Poll, Green Bay jumped two spots from No. 16 to No. 14 which is tied for the
highest in program history.
Live Game Action... Phoenix fans can watch Saturday's game
live on Time Warner Sports 32 or online, here.
A Sneak Peak... The annual Teddy Bear Drive sponsored
by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee will be held in conjunction with the
women's basketball game against Valparaiso on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. at
the Kress Events Center. All teddy bears that are donated will be distributed
through Bellin Health and Prevea to area hospitals.
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.
