Green Bay to Host Western Michigan in Saturday Night BracketBuster

Official Green Bay game notes

Tod Kowalczyk leads Green Bay into another O'Reilly ESPNU BracketBusters appearance.

Feb. 22, 2008

Green Bay (13-13, 7-9) vs. Western Michigan (15-10, 9-3)
Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008 • 7:05 p.m. CT
Resch Center • Green Bay, Wis.

GAME DAY INFORMATION
Television: None

Videostreaming: www.horizonleaguenetwork.tv
Available free of charge

Radio: SportsRadio 107.5 & 1400 The Fan
Chris Roth (play-by-play) and Bill Rabeor (analyst)will call the game on the Phoenix Sports Radio Network. The broadcast is also available online at uwgbathletics.com through Stretch Internet.

WHAT TO KNOW
It's Good to Be Back
• The Phoenix has already completed the road portion of the 2007-08 regular season, and will close the slate with three straight at home from Feb. 23-March 1.
• It matches the longest home stand of the season, as Green Bay also played three consecutive games at the Resch Center from Jan. 19-26.
• No Horizon League team has played more true road contests this season than Green Bay (14).

Green Bay All Time vs. Western Michigan
• Green Bay is 1-3 all time against Western Michigan in a series that dates back to 1973.
• However, the Phoenix is 1-0 against the Broncos since joining Division I.
• The two schools have not met in a quarter of a century, since November of 1982, an 81-43 blowout win for the Phoenix.
• Western Michigan has visited Green Bay just once previously and pulled out a 51-50 victory on Dec. 6, 1975.
• Next year, the Phoenix will travel to Kalamazoo, Mich., to face Western Michigan in a return game.

Green Bay in the BracketBusters Series
• On Saturday night, Green Bay will play Western Michigan (15-10, 9-3 MAC) as the Phoenix participates in the O'Reilly ESPNU BracketBusters pool for the fifth straight season.
• It is the fourth time that the Phoenix will play a home game as part of the mid-major weekend.
• Green Bay picked up its first-ever victory in the event last year, an 82-76 win at Northern Illinois.
• All four of Green Bay's previous BracketBusters games have been decided by 10 points or less, with an average margin of just 6.8 points per game.

Snapping the Streak
• Green Bay has lost four straight games, which is the first time the Phoenix has done that since falling in the final four games of the 2004-05 campaign.
• The Phoenix has not dropped five games in succession since the 2001-02 campaign, a span of 189 contests.

Tracking the League Bracket
• As it stands heading into the final week of the regular season, the Phoenix would be the No. 6 seed and would host No. 7 Valparaiso in a first-round Horizon League Tournament game on Tuesday, March 4.
• The current potential second round opponents would be either No. 3 seed Cleveland State or No. 10 Detroit.

Home Sweet Home
• The Phoenix is 9-2 at home this season and needs just one win to pick up 10 home victories for the fifth consecutive year.
• Green Bay opened the campaign with six straight wins for second straight year and fourth time in the last five campaigns.
• Green Bay owns an impressive 61-25 (.709) record at home since the opening of the Resch Center in November 2002.
• The Phoenix is 421-123 (.774) all time in games played in Green Bay.

Home to Close
• Green Bay closes the regular season with three straight at home from Feb. 23-March 1.
• It matches the longest home stand of the season for the Phoenix, which also played three straight in the Resch Center from Jan. 19-26.
• It is a welcome site for Green Bay, which has played a league-high 14 true road games this year.