Another Team in Green Bay Tries to Go Unbeaten - Wisc. Green Bay Women's Basketball

Another team is unbeaten in Green Bay, and this one doesn't play football, but the way they play would make Packer head coach Mike McCarthy proud.

The Wisconsin-Green Bay women’s basketball team is 19-0 going into Saturday’s game against Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Even if they don't win the Horizon League, the Phoenix stand a pretty good chance of getting to the NCAA tournament without a loss.

Green Bay was No. 10 in The Associated Press poll this week, the program’s first appearance in the top 10.

They join Baylor on the women's side, and Murray St. on the men's side as the only unbeaten teams in Division I college basketball.

Coach Matt Bollant said only one player on his roster, forward Jenny Gilbertson, even got a scholarship offer from a school in a BCS conference coming out of high school. Senior Julie Wojta, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder, acknowledges that Green Bay is a “little bit different” from other top programs.

“We haven’t been able to recruit the top talent in the nation,” Wojta said. “So it’s special, what we do with this team, from the standpoint of, we’re not the most athletic against teams that we play. We’re not the tallest and things like that. You really have to focus on the little pieces of the game, the fundamentals.”

And while Bollant wants the team to block out any talk of going undefeated, the thought has at least occurred to junior forward Lydia Bauer.

“I don’t think you can completely ignore it, but at the same time, I don’t think you want to make it a focus,” Bauer said. “It’d be a great thing to do. But a loss on the record has never hurt a team in the end. So I think it’s a goal, but I don’t think it’s a focus of ours.”

They have do have a great chance at remaining undefeated and causing more damage in the NCAAs.