{"id":187185,"date":"2026-02-21T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:50:09","slug":"green-bay-phoenix-men-beat-oakland-move-into-second-wtaq-news-talk-97-5-fm-%c2%b7-1360-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187185\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay Phoenix men beat Oakland, move into second | WTAQ News Talk | 97.5 FM \u00b7 1360 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"

(GREEN BAY ATHLETICS) ROCHESTER, MICH \u2013 The Green Bay men\u2019s basketball team took down the Oakland Golden Grizzlies on the road, 73-68, to take sole possession of second place in the Horizon League. Assistant Coach\u00a0Kerry Rupp<\/a>\u00a0got the win on the sidelines in place of Phoenix head coach\u00a0Doug Gottlieb<\/a>, who served his one-game Horizon League suspension Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix (16-13, 11-7) had three players score in double figures, led by\u00a0<\/a>Justin Allen<\/a>, who had 21 points and five assists.\u00a0<\/a>C.J. O\u2019Hara<\/a>\u00a0added 16 points and four assists, and\u00a0<\/a>Caden Wilkins<\/a>\u00a0helped out with 12 points and two steals.<\/p>\n

Green Bay shared the ball well, racking up 16 assists on 25 made field goals. Allen\u2019s five assists paced the Phoenix.<\/p>\n

HOW IT HAPPENED
Green Bay got out to an early 20-11 lead, after a\u00a0Marcus Hall<\/a>\u00a0three-pointer with 11:39 left to go in the first half. The Phoenix increased its lead to 29-16 after a\u00a0Ramel Bethea<\/a>\u00a0dunk with 8:28 left in the half. Oakland responded with a 16-3 run to tie the game at 32 with 49 seconds left in the half. The Phoenix responded with an O\u2019Hara layup, and\u00a0Vukasin Todorovic<\/a>\u00a0drilled a 3-pointer as time expired to give themselves a 37-32 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n

The two teams traded leads for a majority of the second half before Oakland took a 63-62 lead after a Michael Hogue layup with 3:12 left in the game. Green Bay responded with a pair of\u00a0Preston Ruedinger<\/a>\u00a0free throws to take a 64-63 lead with 1:32 left in the game. Wilkens added onto the Phoenix lead by drilling a three-pointer with 54 seconds left. Green Bay closed it out by knocking down its free throws down the stretch to secure a 73-68 win.<\/p>\n

GAME NOTES
\u00bb The Phoenix shot well from three-point range, knocking down 10-of-22 attempts.
\u00bb The Phoenix held the Golden Grizzlies to only 37.1-percent shooting from the field.
\u00bb Green Bay held Oakland to 5-of-25 from three-point range.
\u00bb The Phoenix was active in affecting shots on the defensive end, recording five blocks as a team.
\u00bb\u00a0<\/a>Caden Wilkins<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/a>C.J. O\u2019Hara<\/a>\u00a0each had four rebounds to lead Green Bay.
\u00bb Oakland outrebounded Green Bay 40-29.<\/p>\n

ON THE HORIZON
Green Bay will stay in Michigan to face off against Detroit Mercy on Sunday at Noon CST. The Titans sit at 10-7, a half-game behind Green Bay in the Horizon League standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(GREEN BAY ATHLETICS) ROCHESTER, MICH \u2013 The Green Bay men\u2019s basketball team took down the Oakland Golden Grizzlies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-187185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}