Thursday Sports 1/17/19
17 January 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
Green Bay Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur has chosen Nathaniel Hackett to serve as his offensive coordinator.
Hackett spent the last four seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He served as quarterback coach from 2015-16, and then offensive coordinator until late 2018.
Hackett called plays for the Jaguars during his time as OC. In 2017, the Jaguars offense ranked sixth in the NFL and fifth in points. Last season, however, the Jaguars ranked 27th in total offense and struggled with Blake Bortles and Cody Kessler at quarterback. Hackett was let go on Nov. 26.
Prior to the Jaguars, Hackett spent two seasons with the Buffalo Bills as their offensive coordinator. He’s the son of former college football and NFL coach Paul Hackett.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 27 points and 11 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks used a third-quarter outburst to capture their third straight win, 111-101 over the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night.
Eric Bledsoe added 16 points and D.J. Wilson scored 13 for the Bucks, who won for the 14th time in 17 games.
Omri Casspi led the Grizzlies with 17 points. Marc Gasol, Mike Conley and JaMychal Green scored 14 points apiece for Memphis, which lost its ninth in the last 10.
The Bucks play the Magic Saturday in Orlando.
Men’s College Basketball
#5 UW-Oshkosh 82 #23 UW-Whitewater 75-The Titans (15-1, 5-0) record their 3rd straight win at Whitewater, and move to 5-0 in WIAC play for the first time since 1977-78. They have now won 14 straight games this season. UWO’s Adam Fravert had 22 points, 11 rebounds and 5 blocks while Jack Flynn had 19 points and 8 rebounds. UWO will host UW-La Crosse (12-4, 5-0 WIAC) at 5 p.m. on Saturday (Jan. 19) in Kolf Sports Center in a matchup of the top two teams in the conference.
St. Norbert 63 Lake Forest College 62-The Green Knights’ Joe Ciriacks scored on a driving layup with 0.5 seconds remaining to lift St. Norbert to the win. They improve to 9-0 in Midwest Conference play. The Foresters fall to 6-3 in league play with 7 games remaining. Lake Forest had a 50-40 lead with 9:04 remaining in the game, but the Knights used a 13-0 run to re-claim the lead and set up the back and forth finish. Connor Curtis led St. Norbert with 16 points.
Boys Basketball Tonight
North Fond du Lac @ St. Mary’s Springs
Winnebago Lutheran @ Omro
Lomira @ Mayville
Abundant Life/St. Ambrose @ Central Wisconsin Christian
Girls Basketball Tonight
Winneconne @ Ripon-The game can be heard on AM1600 and 93.1FM, WRPN with the tipoff at 7:15.
Kettle Moraine Lutheran @ Berlin
Kewaskum @ Campbellsport
Waupun @ Plymouth
Markesan @ Pardeeville
Princeton/Green Lake @ Randolph
Hustisford @ Lourdes Academy
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