Milwaukee, WI
Behind the Scenes: Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — College basketball is a billion-dollar industry that takes over the country in March. Millions of fans watch some of the best student athletes in the world go head-to-head for 40 minutes. But 40 minutes on the court are just the finished product, a fraction of the work that goes into it behind the scenes. The Milwaukee Panthers and Coach Bart Lundy let CBS 58 take a peek behind the curtain at a recent game.
Twenty minutes before tip-off, he stands in an empty locker room, waiting.
“Misery, yeah, it’s [the waiting] the worst. Absolute worst part of game day, right here,” Lundy said.
He fills the time writing the final matchups and keys to the game on the whiteboard.
“It’s really a three-day prep for each team. I’ve kind of gone away from the ‘rah-rah’ speeches I gave as a young coach so if I give one now it’s effective,” said Lundy.
Instead, assistant coach Ben Walker gives the pre-game speech before this game.
“Don’t play with your food. Are you hungry? Yes sir. Well, let’s go eat then!”
The Panthers are favorites so the coaching staff is worried about a “trap game.” Their message to the team all week has been to stay locked in and not overlook their opponent. But Coach Lundy knows his team well.
After a sluggish workout he paces back and forth during starting lineups worried the message didn’t sink in as well as he wanted it to.
“Today is a great day to analyze that [how well the pregame talk sank in with the team]. We didn’t think the initial warmup was good and we were locked in even though they came in the locker room and said, ‘we’re locked in and ready to go’ and we came out in the game and we weren’t locked in. We weren’t ready to go,” Lundy said.
He’s right, at the first TV timeout the Panthers still haven’t scored.
Things improve from there. One by one the shots start falling and suddenly Milwaukee is up five heading back into the locker room for halftime.
“I feel like…we’re going to throw a knockout punch, that’s not how it’s going to work. We’re going to beat this team with singles,” said Lundy.
The message sinks in. The Panthers dominate the second half on the way to a 20-point win. In Bart’s office after the game, he told CBS 58’s Scott Grodsky he knew his halftime speech hit home.
“I thought at halftime, at halftime when we talked about you can’t hit a home run, it has to be play after play after play,” said Lundy. “I thought, just looking at them and their heads nodding. You can tell who is listening with their eyes, the body language of the team, whether they are really locked in. I thought they were locked into that and we came out and played we were locked in.”
Relationships behind the scenes are what drives success in college basketball. Bart learned that early when he became one of the youngest head coaches in the country more than 25 years ago. While his relationship with players has evolved, the core stays the same.
“I think in a lot of ways I’ve always been more of a player’s coach. Now maybe instead of being that young coach they relate maybe it’s more of a father-figure type relationship,” Lundy said.
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MILWAUKEE – Brad Paisley is scheduled to perform at the BMO Pavilion in Milwaukee on Sept. 4.
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The ticket pre-sale for Brad’s fan club members, Paisley Nation, begins on Tuesday, May 12 at 10 am. All tickets available at BradPaisley.com.
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Billionaire Wes Edens, co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA club, is shown at Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, 2015. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday identified Edens as the victim of a billion-dollar extortion plot allegedly hatched by an ex-lover. File Photo by Andrew Gombert/EPA
May 10 (UPI) — Wes Edens, the billionaire co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and an owner of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, was the target of a billion-dollar extortion scheme allegedly perpetrated by an ex-lover, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
A spokesman for Edens, 64, confirmed to the newspaper that the financier is the unnamed alleged victim in a federal indictment brought against Changli “Sophia” Luo of New York City.
Edens, one of world’s most successful global investment management firm leaders with Fortress, has developed and owned businesses in real estate, transportation, infrastructure, health care, financial services, media and entertainment.
He is also a high-profile sports team owner, including the Bucks and soccer club Aston Villa of the English Premier League. He is credited turning the Bucks from a perennial cellar dweller into a champion squad over a five-year span, culminating in the 2021 NBA championship.
But he also fell victim to a lurid alleged “sextortion” scheme, his spokesman confirmed to the WSJ, admitting the Edens is the unnamed “Victim 1” cited an indictment filed last year in Manhattan federal court against Luo.
The indictment reportedly accuses her of trying to extort Victim 1 of more than $1 billion by threatening to release videos and photos of them engaged in sex. Prosecutors alleged Luo also threatened to contact the victim’s family members and business partners in a threat to destroy his fortune if he did not pay up.
According to the indictment, Luo was arrested June 14 at JFK International Airport as she tried to board a flight to China, the New York Post reported.
“Mr. Edens will be making no comment on the case as the indictment speaks for itself with respect to the charges against the defendant,” his spokesman told the Journal. “Mr. Edens expects to testify under oath at the upcoming trial.”
MILWAUKEE – Forecast from FOX6 Meteorologist Lisa Michaels
Mostly sunny skies with partly sunny skies in the afternoon. There is a slight chance for a few sprinkles, but most areas remain dry. Highs near 60F on Sunday.
Patchy frost is possible again Sunday night into Monday morning as low temps inland can reach the lower 30s.
Cooler on Monday with easterly winds- low 50s near the lake to upper 50s inland.
A big boost in temperatures on Tuesday in the low 70s associated with a clipper system will bring the next chance of rain and a few storms.
Today: Mostly Sunny. Slight chance sprinkles.
High: 60°
Wind: NW 5-15
Tonight: Mostly Clear. Patchy frost.
Low: 38°
Wind: N 5
Monday: 53 LAKE. Mostly sunny.
High: 57°
Wind: E 5-10
Tuesday: Chance storms. Breezy.
AM Low: 39° High: 71°
Wind: SW 10-25
Wednesday:Partly sunny.
AM Low: 46° High: 59°
Wind: NW 5-15
Thursday: Mostly Sunny. Slight chance sprinkles.
AM Low: 42° High: 64°
Wind: S 5-10
Friday: Chance of Rain
AM Low: 47° High: 72°
Wind: SW 5-15
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