GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) --- The Green Bay women's basketball team returns to the friendly confines of the Kress Center tomorrow night as the squad welcomes Maine for a 7 p.m. tipoff.

CATCH THE ACTION: Tuesday, November 20 at 7 p.m.  (CT) // Green Bay, Wis. (Kress Center)

Matchup: Green Bay Phoenix vs Maine Black Bears

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Game Notes: Green Bay Notes | Maine Notes

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WURTZ WARMING UP
Frankie Wurtz was honored by the Horizon League this week after leading the Phoenix to a victory over No. 16 Missouri on Friday evening. Wurtz finished with 16 points on a 3-of-8 efforts from the field combined with a perfect 7-for-7 mark from the line to help put the game away. When the Phoenix traveled to No. 15 DePaul, the redshirt junior enjoyed a career day by scoring 23 points and corralling 12 rebounds for the first double-double of her career.
 
TOUGH TESTS FOR THE PHOENIX
Green Bay is no stranger to tough opponents and in the 2018-19 campaign nothing has changed. The Phoenix has faced one Big Ten team and two ranked opponents in the first three games of the season and earned a 1-2 record along the way. Although this is the first time since 2006 the Phoenix has a losing record three games into the season, Green Bay has earned national attention by taking No. 15 DePaul to the wire and defeating No. 16 Missouri. Missouri is the highest ranked road opponent ever defeated by Green Bay and the highest ranked team to fall at the hands of the Phoenix since No. 12 Michigan State in the 2011 NCAA Tournament, a win which propelled GB into the Sweet Sixteen.
 
READY FOR THE CHALLENGE
Green Bay will face five opponents this year who played in the NCAA Tournament last season. Two of these matchups will be at home, while the other three will be away. Two of those away games come early in the season when the Phoenix play No. 15 DePaul and No. 16 Missouri back to back for the second and third game of the year. Four of the five opponents exited in the first round, with the exception being Marquette who made it to the second round. Green Bay welcomes the challenge of a tough non-conference schedule in preparation of Horizon League play.
 
FAVORED TO WIN NUMBER 21
For the 11th-consecutive year, the Green Bay women's basketball team will enter the season as the Horizon League preseason favorite, as announced by the league office during its media day event in early October. Green Bay is fresh off its 20th-straight Horizon League Regular-Season Championship and is no stranger to high expectations, with Head coach Kevin Borseth's Phoenix squad receiving 28 of the 29 first-place votes in the poll and accumulating 286 points to lead the nearest school by 41 (IUPUI).
 
DEFENSIVE MINDSET
Green Bay owned the nation's best statistical defense in the country a season ago, allowing a lowly 47.4 PPG. The Phoenix was the only program in the nation to hold opposing teams to lower than 50 points per game. With the reigning Horizon League Defensive Player of the Year returning to this year's roster, Green Bay will look for more of the same from its nationally recognized defense.
 
WHAT'S IN STORE FOR 2018-19
Borseth returns to the helm of the Green Bay women's basketball program for the 16th season in 2018-19, a year removed from leading the Phoenix to its 20th-consecutive regular season title and 18th NCAA Tournament appearance. The regular-season schedule features 14 home games, five nonconference matchups in addition to the nine league games. 
 
WINNING TRADITION
Green Bay secured its 41st-consecutive winning season last year and trails only Tennessee (44) for the longest active streak in the nation. Green Bay's streak includes 20-straight conference titles and 18 NCAA Tournament appearances. The Phoenix also secured its 19th-consecutive 20-plus win season dating back to 1999-00.
 
WINNING....SINCE THE BEGINNING
The Green Bay women's basketball team is one of three Division I women's basketball programs that has had a winning record every year since the NCAA took over administration of women's college athletics in the fall of 1981. Essentially, the Phoenix has never had a losing record in the NCAA era. There only two other programs to accomplish the same feat, Tennessee and Georgia.
 
HORIZON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SUCCESS
Last season Green Bay made its ninth-consecutive Horizon League Tournament Championship game and 20th overall. The Phoenix owns a 16-4 all-time record in the tournament's biggest game and has won 16 of the last 21 titles.
 
20 STRAIGHT
The Phoenix clinched its 20th-consecutive regular season conference championship last season, a streak that dates back to the 1998-99 season. Green Bay's current consecutive title run is the longest active conference championship streak in the nation. To really put things in perspective, the last time that Green Bay lost a regular-season conference championship, five members of the team hadn't been born (Karly Murphy, Lyndsey Robson, Anna Brecht, Patricia Gallasova and Hailey Oskey).
 
PHOENIX NATIONAL RANKINGS IN 2017-18
• No. 1 in the nation in scoring defense at 47.4 points per game allowed
• No. 2 in the nation in field-goal percentage defense at 32.6 percent
• No. 6 in the nation in scoring margin at +18.2
• No. 8 in the nation in won-lost percentage at 87.9
• No. 10 in the nation in rebound Margin at +9.2
• No. 30 in the nation in turnovers per game at 12.5
• No. 38 in the nation in field-goal percentage at 44.3 percent

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