Wyoming’s Wicks worked with as UW-Green Bay coach

GREEN BAY, Wis.– Green Bay has worked with Wyoming assistant Sundance Wicks to take control of its males’s basketball program.Athletic director

Josh Moon announced the hiring Tuesday. Green Bay had been seeking a long-term replacement for Will Ryan, who was fired Jan. 24 after going 15-61 in 2 1/2 seasons.Wicks has been an assistant coach at Wyoming the last 3 seasons after publishing a 30-32 record as the head coach at Department II program Missouri Western State from 2018-20. Missouri Western State’s 2019-20 group went 18-14, producing the

program’s very first winning season given that 2009-10. Wicks also has actually been an assistant coach at Colorado (2006-07

), Northern Illinois (2007-2011), San Francisco (2015-16)and Northern State (2016-2018). He was the skill instructor and director of the Arizona Power Basketball Academy from 2011 to 2015. Wicks will attempt to revitalize a Horizon League program that has gone 16-71 over the last three seasons. Green Bay hasn’t reached the NCAA competition since 2016, which marked the last of three straight seasons in which the Phoenix won at least 23 games.Green Bay went 3-29 this season. Freddie Owens published a 1-10 record as interim head coach after the exit of Ryan, the boy

of former Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan. “There is a history of winning and a tradition of excellence that is dormant today, not dead,

and we will RISE that custom from its ashes,”Wicks said in a university statement.