The Green Bay Phoenix, previously known as the UW–Green Bay Phoenix and UWGB Phoenix, are the athletic teams of the

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay The University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UW–Green Bay, UWGB, or Green Bay) is a public university in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1965, it is part of the University of Wisconsin System. As of fall 2024, student enrollment h ...

. A total of 14 Phoenix athletic teams compete in the

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. The school does not sponsor an American football team.

Teams

A member of the

, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay sponsors teams in six men's and eight women's sports.

Men's basketball

The men's basketball team has appeared in the NCAA Tournament five times, most recently in 2016.

Women's basketball

During the 2008/09-2012/13 seasons, the Green Bay women's basketball team had the third highest winning-percentage in the NCAA Division I with a 175–21 mark trailing only Connecticut and Stanford. The Phoenix has the fifth-most wins in Division I during that same stretch. The Phoenix entered the 2017–18 season on a string of 40 consecutive winning seasons, with only

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having a longer such streak in women's college basketball. Green Bay has won or tied for the Horizon League regular-season championship since 2000, the longest active streak in Division I NCAA women's basketball. In those 17 years, the team has only lost the conference tournament three times, in the 2000–01, 2009–10, and 2013–14 seasons. Since the 2002–03 season, Green Bay has been ranked in the top 25 polls, with the highest ranking being #9 at the conclusion of the 2010–11 season when they made it to the Sweet 16 where they lost to the University of Baylor, 86–76. They have been to the NCAA tournament 18 times, advancing to the second round five times and to the Sweet 16 once.

Softball

In the 2005 season, they claimed their first Horizon League tournament championship after being picked to finish last in the conference. They went on to the national tournament, where they defeated #6 seed

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in the first round of the tournament. They also won both the Horizon League regular season title as well as the Horizon League tournament title in 2014.

National championships

Team

Notable sports figures

Athletes

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, former

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basketball player and former men's head basketball coach at the

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* Alec Brown, former NBA player, currently playing overseas *

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, basketball player in the

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, NBA player, currently playing in the NBA G League *

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, former NBA basketball player *

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, professional soccer player for

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and

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, professional basketball player, currently playing in the NBA G League *

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, former NBA basketball player

Coaches

Dick Bennett Richard A. Bennett (born April 20, 1943) is an American former college basketball coach who is best known for building the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball program into a mid-major power and revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basket ...

, former head basketball coach (and father of the aforementioned Tony Bennett) * Kevin Borseth, former and legendary women's head basketball coach

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Green Bay Phoenix