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.
MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Police Department requested the public’s help to find 11-year-old Sir’Charles Bason, a critically missing boy who was last seen near Teutonia and Kiley at around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Police described Bason as 4 feet, 5 inches tall with a slim build, brown eyes and black, low-cut hair. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket with green lines, dark-colored jeans, tan sandals and carrying gray Nike Jordan shoes.
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What you can do:
Anyone with information on Bason’s whereabouts is asked to call Milwaukee Police District 4 at 414-935-7242.
The Source: The Milwaukee Police Department released information.
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man, previously named one of Wisconsin’s Most Wanted, has been sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his cousin in 2020.
In court
What we know:
A Milwaukee County jury found 39-year-old Brandon Gladney guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firm by a felon earlier this year.
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Judge Michelle Havas sentenced Gladney to 29 years in prison on Friday, April 17. He was granted credit for more than a year’s time served and further sentenced to 14 years of extended supervision.
Arrested in Arizona after years on the run, court records show Gladney has also been ordered to pay the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office more than $1,800 for extradition costs.
Homicide investigation
The backstory:
The shooting happened in May 2020. Investigators said Gladney was captured on video apparently arguing with the victim, his cousin, outside a Milwaukee convenience store near 21st and Meinecke.
“It’s all on video, and it’s devastating for that family,” the marshal on the case told FOX6 when Gladney was profiled on Wisconsin’s Most Wanted. “You have a family member that shot and killed another family member.”
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Prosecutors said Gladney walked away but then returned with a gun pointed directly at the victim and shot him. The victim died from his gunshot wounds at a nearby hospital. Multiple bullet casings were found at the scene.
Gladney went on the run for years. He was arrested in Arizona in January 2023, years after he was charged.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the U.S. Marshals Service, Wisconsin Circuit Court and prior coverage.
Brice Turang slides to home plate to score during a game between the Miami Marlins and the Milwaukee Brewers on April 17. (Photo by Chris Arjoon/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
MIAMI – Garrett Mitchell went 2 for 4 with three RBIs including a two-run double in the 10th inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Miami Marlins 7-5 on Friday night.
By the numbers:
Miami’s Calvin Faucher (1-2) entered a 4-all game in the 10th and walked Gary Sánchez with Brice Turang on second. Jake Bauers hit a single to load the bases.
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Luis Rengifo reached first on a throwing error by second baseman Xavier Edwards, allowing Turang to score. Mitchell followed with his double.
The Marlins scored one run in the bottom of the 10th when Jakob Marsee came home on Trevor Megill’s wild pitch. Megill settled in for his fourth save.
Coleman Crow, who made his debut on the mound for the Brewers, threw 77 pitches over 5 1/3 innings. He threw four strikeouts, gave up two earned runs and a walk.
The right-hander was 2-0 with a 4.07 ERA in two starts with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in Nashville. He missed part of the 2023 season and all of 2024 after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
The Brewers scored three runs in the fourth inning. With the bases loaded, Mitchell hit an RBI single, Bauers scored on a forceout at first and Rengifo scored on a throwing error by catcher Agustín Ramírez.
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Miami’s Otto Lopez hit a triple to center field in the fourth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Owen Caissie. Lopez hit a two-run homer in the sixth to pull Miami within 4-3 and Ramírez doubled in the eighth to tie the game at four.
Abner Uribe (1-0) earned his first win of the season, coming on in the ninth inning.
Marlins third baseman Graham Pauley left the game in the seventh inning with right oblique discomfort after spinning out of the way of a pitch.
What’s next:
The Brewers and Marlins continue their 3-game series on Saturday, with Brandon Woodruff (1-0, 4.36 ERA) taking the mound for Milwaukee and Sandy Alcantara (2-1, 2.67) for Miami.
The Source: The Associated Press provided this report.
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