{"id":187631,"date":"2026-02-21T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187631\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:13:15","slug":"green-bay-mens-basketball-beats-oakland-despite-doug-gottliebs-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187631\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay men’s basketball beats Oakland despite Doug Gottlieb’s absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREEN BAY (WLUK) — Green Bay men’s basketball picked up an important win Friday night, beating Oakland 73-68.<\/p>\n

The win not only moved the Phoenix solely into second place in the Horizon League standings, but showed they could win without their head coach present.<\/p>\n

Doug Gottlieb did not coach the Phoenix in the game because he was serving a one-game suspension<\/a> for his comments following Green Bay’s loss to Milwaukee last weekend.<\/p>\n

Assistant coach Kerry Rupp served as acting head coach in win. At 71 years old, Rupp became the second oldest coach in the nation to get a win this year, according to Green Bay athletics.<\/p>\n

Justin Allen led all scorers with 21 points to go along with five assists and four rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix had previously lost to Oakland 88-63 on Jan. 18, their second-largest conference loss so far this season.<\/p>\n

With the victory, Green Bay sits solely in second place in the conference with an 11-7 record, currently 2.5 games behind first place Wright State.<\/p>\n

Two games remain in the regular season for the Phoenix with the Horizon League men’s and women’s tournaments beginning March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY (WLUK) — Green Bay men’s basketball picked up an important win Friday night, beating Oakland 73-68.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-187631","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\/187631","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=187631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}