GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - There will not be any uncertainty this year during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show. After polishing off its 23rd-straight win and claiming the 2011 Horizon League Championship, the only thing No. 13/11 Green Bay will need to find out Monday is its opponent and how high it will be seeded for the start of the NCAA Tournament next weekend.

Like it did throughout its record-setting conference tournament run, the top-seed and host Green Bay (32-1) left little doubt Sunday afternoon at the Kress Events Center despite a late rally by second-seeded Butler (20-13). Its stifling first-half defense and a balanced offensive attack led to a 74-63 win over the Bulldogs in front of 2,600 fans, and the Phoenix grabbed the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament , the program's 12th all-time.

In the process, the Phoenix players gave head coach Matt Bollant a pretty special birthday present.

"I'm happy for our team. They work really hard and do the things that we ask them to do," said an emotional Bollant after the game. "You work hard and get up early in the summer time for moments like this. To be able to celebrate and cut down the nets. To be able to see [our players] celebrate and earn it and for our families and fans to be a part of it, for Chancellor Harden and our administration to be a part of it. All of those things, to me, are really special."

Showing its impressive depth during the first half, Green Bay got a combined 35 points from its fourth and sixth-leading scorers, including 23 in the first half as the Phoenix went into the break with a 40-19 lead. Sophomores Sarah Eichler (Grafton, Wis.) and Adrian Ritchie (DePere, Wis.) tallied 13 and 10 points, respectively, in an opening 20 minutes that included Green Bay runs of 11-0 and 8-0, the second of which Eichler capped with a triple with eight seconds.

Ritchie came off the bench and finished with a team-high 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field while Eichler finished with 17 to earn a spot on the All-Tournament team.

"We always say that our go-to player is the open player, and with them playing a zone I drool over those opportunities," said Ritchie. "The wings get open looks [against zones] and that happened tonight. I think we passed really well, we drew defenders and then we dished. I felt good, the ball came to me and I knocked some down, and after that I felt even better."

The Phoenix defense was stifling as usual in the first half, holding the Bulldogs to just 7-of-25 shooting. Green Bay, who forced an average of 22.7 turnovers during the tournament run, scored 27 points off 23 Butler turnovers Sunday.

The Green Bay lead reached as high as 26 (48-22) early in the second half on back-to-back fastbreak layups from junior Julie Wojta (Michicot, Wis.) and senior Kayla Tetschlag (Sheboygan, Wis.), but Butler charged back with a 14-2 spurt to make things interesting.

Green Bay's lead again reached 21 with 6:16 to play, but the Bulldogs rattled off eight-straight points capped by an Alyssa Pittman bucket that made it 66-53 at the under four-minute timeout. The Phoenix lead reached 17 again before Butler closed for the final margin.

While Eichler and Ritchie stole some of the headlines, the usual suspects certainly did their part as well. The co-Horizon League Players of the Year - Tetschlag and fellow senior Celeste Hoewisch (Hortonville, Wis.) - did their part as well. Tetschlag finished with 16 points and 7 rebounds, and Hoewisch added 10 points and four assists before being named the Horizon League Championship MVP.

"Everyone took their turn stepping up this tournament, and every single person contributed to the success and where we are right now," said Hoewisch.

Wojta is playing as well as any Phoenix player and just missed registering her third double-double in as many tournament contests with 13 points and nine rebounds. The junior posted averages of 14 points and 10.3 rebounds during the three tourney wins.

Tetschlag and Wojta joined Eichler and Hoewisch to give the Phoenix four players on the All-Tournament Team. Butler's Brittany Bowen, who scored a game-high 34 points on 11-of-18 shooting, also earned a spot.

Green Bay's run to the championship title was record setting in a number of ways. The Phoenix broke the program's all-time record for wins in a season with a quarterfinals victory, and the team broke Horizon League Tournament records for combined margin of victory (89), points (258), steals (39) and assists (79).

With the automatic bid secured to go along with the regular season title, Green Bay now looks ahead to Monday, when it will learn where it open the NCAA Tournament during the selection show from 6-7 p.m. The Phoenix will create another memory by welcoming fans to the Kress Center for an NCAA Tournament Send Off Celebration and Selection Show Party. The event is free to the public and will get underway at 5:30 p.m.

"It has been awesome," said Hoewisch, who along with Tetschlag and injured Heather Golden were playing their final games at the Kress Center. "It is definitely the people surrounding me that make it special. That is what you are going to remember when you are done. You are going to remember the people that you went to battle with and shared these moments with."