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Wisconsin-Milwaukee 65, Wisconsin-Green Bay 61

Paige Paulsen had 19 points and nine rebounds as Wisconsin-Milwaukee beat Wisconsin-Green Bay 65-61 Saturday night.

Allan Hanson's pair of free throws with 7.8 seconds left sealed the win for Milwaukee, which nearly let a 12-point second-half lead get away before pulling out its third victory on a four-game road trip.

Mike Schachtner led the Phoenix with 18 points, while Ryan Tillema added 14 points in the Horizon League game. Green Bay dropped its third straight game overall and lost at home for the first time all season.

Marcus Skinner finished with 14 points, 10 rebounds and five blocked shots for the Panthers.

Skinner also tapped a crucial offensive rebound to teammate Charlie Swiggett with under 10 seconds to play that helped preserve the win.

Ricky Franklin scored 14 points and Hanson finished with 10 for the Panthers, which won in Green Bay for the second straight season.

Randy Berry chipped in 13 points and a team-high seven rebounds for Green Bay.

After a 1-for-6 start and an early 10-4 Green Bay advantage, Milwaukee found its rhythm on offense, hitting 12 of its next 23 to take a 32-28 lead into the half.

That lead stretched to as large as 52-40 after a technical foul on Green Bay's Terry Evans with 10:50 left. The Phoenix whittled the lead down to as little as two points on two separate occasions, but the Panthers never lost the lead.

Milwaukee (10-8 overall, 5-3 Horizon League) endured a six-game losing streak earlier in the season but has won seven of its last eight.

The Phoenix (9-8, 3-4) are 9-1 when leading or tied at the half and winless when trailing at the break, fell to 0-7 when trailing at the break.


The Wall

Three guys, a Dallas fan, a Packer fan, and a Viking fan are out walking together one day. They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it.
“I will give you each one wish, that’s three wishes total,” says the Genie.
The Dallas Fan says, “I am a farmer, my Dad was a farmer, and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in Texas.”
With a blink of the Genie’s eye, ‘FOOM’ the land in Texas was forever made fertile for farming.
The Viking Fan was amazed, so he said, “I want a wall around Minnesota so that no infidels, Bear Fans, or Packer Fans, can come into our precious state.”
Again, with a blink of the Genie’s eye, ‘POOF’, there was a huge wall around Minnesota.
Izzy, the Wisconsinite asks, “I’m very curious. Please tell me more about this wall.” The Genie explains, “Well, it’s about 150 feet high, 50 feet thick and completely surrounds the state; nothing can get in or out.”
Izzy says, “Fill it up with water.”

The Ice Bowl

Pro football fans in Green Bay, Wisconsin have always been recognized as a loyal and hearty bunch. But one wouldn’t have faulted even the most loyal “Packer Backer” if he’d decided not to attend the 1967 NFL Championship game between the Packers and Dallas Cowboys. Played at Lambeau Field on December 31, the temperature at game time registered a frigid 13 degrees below zero. Nonetheless, more than 50,000 parka-clad fans braved the elements that New Year’s Eve and watched in awe as the Packers claimed their third consecutive NFL title, with a 21-17 victory.

1967_Championship_GameFrom the start, Green Bay fans felt their team had a distinct advantage over the warm-weather Cowboys, After all, the Packers lived and practiced in the cold Wisconsin climate. Green Bay’s early 14-0 lead probably convinced fans that they were right. However, the severe weather affected the Packers too. Dallas scored a touchdown and a field goal after two Packer fumbles and added a second touchdown in the fourth quarter. Suddenly, with 4:50 left in the game the Packers were behind, 17-14.

The Packers literally and figuratively “kept their cool.” Behind the leadership of future Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr, they marched down field. With sixteen seconds remaining and the temperature down to eighteen below zero, the Packers found themselves about two feet away from victory. Starr called time out. The field was like a sheet of ice. The two previous running plays had gone nowhere. With no time outs left, a running play seemed totally out of the question. A completed pass surely would win it. Even an incomplete pass would at least stop the clock so the Packers could set up a field goal to tie the game and send it into overtime. After consulting with Packers coach Vince Lombardi, Starr returned to the huddle.

Starr took the snap from center Ken Bowman. Bowman and guard Jerry Kramer combined to take out Dallas tackle Jethro Pugh. With Pugh out of the way, Starr surprised everyone and dove over for the score. “We had run out of ideas,” Starr said of the play. However, Lombardi put it another way, “We gambled and we won.”