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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is in the Sweet 16 and next year they are coming to Frost Arena! 8)
Go State! ;D
Go State! ;D
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Re: UW-Milwaukee in the Sweet 16
Highlights from an Argus story about UW-Milwaukee:
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs...0322/SPORTS/50 322008/1002
Earning a spot on the map
No. 12 Wisconsin-Milwaukee is lowest seed in men’s tourney
By ARNIE STAPLETON
Associated Press
published: 03/22/05
MILWAUKEE – Before last weekend, Wisconsin-Milwaukee was best known for being the school where the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir went.
For “Happy Days” aficionados, it’s where Richie Cunningham, Potsie Weber and Ralph Malph all hit the books when they weren’t hanging out at Arnold’s Drive-in.
Now, the No. 12 Panthers, which beat South Dakota State in an early December game, are the lowest seed remaining in the NCAA tournament, holding the banner for all the mid-majors who dream of knocking off the big basketball schools like Alabama and Boston College, both of which fell to Bruce Pearl’s pressing Panthers, champions of the Horizon League, last week in Cleveland.
UWM is a commuter school of 25,000 that has gone from NAIA Division II to NCAA Division I in a little more than a decade.
When athletic director Bud Haidet was hired in 1988, he counted 65 fans at his first basketball game and many of them mistakenly handed back the pom-pons he gave them on their way into the arena.
Now, UWM is taking some of the spotlight off Marquette, just 6 miles away, which went to the Final Four two years ago, and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where the Badgers, under former Panthers coach Bo Ryan, are also in the Round of 16. . . .
Don't forget, the Panthers are coming to Frost Arena on the Campus of South Dakota State University next season! 8)
Go State! ;D
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