Published March 26, 2013
For those of you who tune in to check on your prognostication brackets of the NCAA Division 1 tournament, you are not alone. The combined coverage of the first week of games on CBS and Turner Network stations like TBS, TNT and truTV averaged 8.9 million viewers.
Published March 12, 2013
Big changes may be in store across the Milwaukee basketball landscape in the coming months. Who stays, and who goes?
Published March 5, 2013
The Marquette Golden Eagles have shocked many pundits by contending for a Big East regular season title and spending most of the year in the Top 25. The Milwaukee Bucks are in the race for a playoff spot. Yet each team often struggles with one particular ingredient in a winning mixture.
Published Feb. 23, 2013
Bookworms, TV junkies, history buffs and sports lovers will all want to see what OnMilwaukee.com recommends this week.
Published Jan. 21, 2013
The decision by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee athletic director Andy Geiger to move the men's basketball program out of Downtown and onto campus was a mistake.
Published Nov. 21, 2012
Jack Taylor, a Wisconsin native and a Grinnell College sophomore guard, scored an NCAA-record 138 points during his team's 179-104 win Tuesday night against Faith Baptist Bible College.
Published Oct. 9, 2012
Marquette Madness, which marks the official start to the 2012-13 men's and women's basketball campaigns, will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12 in the Al McGuire Center. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., but fans can begin standing in line at 4 p.m. Season and single-game tickets are also available.
Published Aug. 27, 2012
Full of life, knowledge and basketball, Rick Majerus, 64, was poised to take a legitimate Top 25 team in St. Louis deep into the tournament this season. He won't, though, as he's again battling health and heart issues.
Published July 8, 2012
It's clear that Ray Allen isn't playing for the money. He wants to win a title and has decided he has a better chance of that with the Heat, who won the title this year, than with the Celtics, who are aging a bit and probably out of the title conservation.
Published April 8, 2012
Steve Showalter provided Germantown High School with one of its finest moments when his unbeaten Warhawks edged out Rufus King for the WIAA Division 1 State Basketball Championship. Named the Associated Press Coach of the Year in Wisconsin, the 12-year veteran coach was lucky to have his two sons, senior Zak and sophomore Jake, along for the ride.
Published April 4, 2012
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers basketball player Tony Meier was named a Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete for the second consecutive year.
Published March 26, 2012
For some, Marquette University's Sweet 16 exit from the NCAA Tournament at the hands of Florida was a disappointment. For others, it ended a very successful season that will lead to greater accomplishments next year. It should be an interesting off-season for Golden Eagles basketball.
Published March 5, 2012
Milwaukee's Bradley Center is no stranger to back-to-back events on a single night, but Saturday, March 3 proved to be an even bigger day than normal for the building.
Published Feb. 17, 2012
All three basketball games I attended at the high school, college and NBA level had different outcomes from some of the built-up frustration that needed to be released.
Published Jan. 25, 2012
Paul Szelc truly does whistle while he works. Born and raised in West Allis in a house his parents still call home, the 34-year-old Szelc keeps his Wisconsin roots with a home base in Wauwatosa. But during the winter months, he is constantly traveling, calling traveling - and other basketball violations - as a college basketball referee.
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