Milwaukee, WI
Whitnall graduate Danilo Jovanovich shines but UWM gets blown out by Indiana
UWM men’s basketball coach Bart Lundy explains pride in first 3 season
Bart Lundy marks his fourth season as head coach of the Panthers in 2025-25. Here’s what he feels best about over the first three.
The Indiana Hoosiers might be a problem for college basketball this season. Just ask the teams residing in the 414.
Three days after the Hoosiers laid a beating on Marquette, they turned their sights to its neighbors on the east side and beat the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 101-70, at Assembly Hall on Nov. 12.
The Panthers managed to hang with the new-look, high-octane Hoosiers most of the first half and even a bit into the final 20 minutes before first-year head coach Darian DeVries’ crew ran their visitors out of the gym and into their next difficult non-conference challenge down the stretch.
BOX SCORE: Indiana 101, UWM 70
Indiana became the first team to hang 100 points on Milwaukee since Oakland hit that mark on Jan. 4, 2024, doing so with four players scoring in double digits, led by Lamar Wilkerson’s 24. The Hoosiers have now put up 100 points or more in back-to-back games after doing so in a 23-point win over Marquette Nov. 9. They shot 56.7% from the field against the Panthers, who struggled to keep them from clean looks from deep early and in the paint late.
“To come here someone’s going to have to score 90 to have a chance to win,” Panthers head coach Bart Lundy said.
Despite being outmanned, Milwaukee still shot 46.8% from the field with Danilo Jovanovich (18 points) and Seth Hubbard (17 points) leading the charge.
“A lot of positives to take out of the game,” Lundy sai. “I thought the atmosphere and some of the adversity we handled pretty well. We absorbed the scouting report. We had some chances to make it a much closer game. They’re a really good team. They can really score. They made us pay for every mistake that we made. They hurt us with some things we knew we were going to have to give up.”
Three-point defense lacks in first half
If there was one thing the Panthers couldn’t do against the Hoosiers, it was allowing open looks from three. It turned out to be a far too common sight in the first half.
Indiana hit 9 of its 14 attempts from deep in the first half, with Wilkerson, a certified marksman who hit 10 threes in the Hoosiers’ first two games, left with space to operate too many times on his way to sinking five. Those looks came in a variety of ways, with being untagged in transition to too much space with the shot clock winding down, but Lundy thought the Panthers otherwise did a good job of following the scouting report against him.
“We were keyed in on him and (Tucker) DeVries,” Lundy said. “Wilkerson got us on a couple of turnovers. Both those guys are NBA shooters.”
While the Panthers buckled down on Indiana’s perimeter attack in the second half – keeping Wilkerson without a triple over the final 20 minutes – their defensive issue became attempting to contain the Hoosiers in the paint. Indiana made 11 of 16 two-point field goals in the period while going to the free throw line 17 times thanks to 12 Milwaukee fouls.
The team defense left something to be desired, but it wasn’t all bad.
Jovanovich showcased some stopper potential on DeVries, who torched Marquette for 27 points and is a potential all-American, in the first half and Tate Mackenzie stepped forward to give the Panthers some rim protection that was absent the first three games of the year. The reserve big man and former Michigan football recruit showcased his athleticism with three blocks in 10 minutes.
“He and Faizon (Fields) at the rim were phenomenal. Both of them were walls,” Lundy said. “You want to learn from these types of games, and we’re learning that Tate’s really pretty good.”
Indiana is going to give plenty of opponents fits with its scoring prowess in the months to come, but nevertheless the total effort wasn’t one that Lundy walked away from feeling good about – and that’s the third time that has happened through four games.
Danilo Jovanovich shines
On his way to leading Milwaukee in scoring, Jovanovich put together a sequence on offense that displayed his top-end ability.
The Panthers had been within six points at 31-25 before the Hoosiers rattled off rapid 11-2 run in less than two minutes. With the arena rocking on the heels of an off-the-glass alley-oop to Reed Bailey to put Milwaukee in a 15-point hole, the ball went to Jovanovich at the top of the key. He slowly backed down DeVries and as the shot clock neared zero calmly hit a fadeaway off one leg in slow motion.
That bucket slowed the roll of the Hoosiers momentarily, sparking a 9-2 run to draw the Panthers within 43-36 with two minutes to go in the first half.
Defensively, Jovanovich was tasked with guarding DeVries and held him to just two points in the first half by presenting him with a physical challenge off the dribble and not allowing his shifty back cuts to work. DeVries hit a pair of threes in the second half to finish with 12 points but was, on the whole, outdueled by Jovanovich.
“I thought D-Lo did an unreal job on DeVries,” Lundy said. “This was D-Lo’s best college game on both sides of the ball, to play like that against an all-American.”
Milwaukee, WI
Squire Robinson leads a new generation of Milwaukee artists with his distinctly bold style
In a cavernous attic studio stands Squire Robinson.
Next to him on the ground is an unfinished painting of his. Hung above him are numerous paintings that he’s finished in the past year.
The walls are filled with works of art, crafted by the various artists who also call 100% MKE, a nonprofit arts studio and workspace at 217 N. Broadway, home.
Robinson’s art doesn’t just stand among them – it stands out.
Maybe it’s the saturated reds that prevail in each of his pieces.
Maybe it’s the bold strokes that create the even bolder figures that call his paintings home.
Either way, Robinson’s art has a tangible effect for those with the eyes to see.
“Sometimes the most important piece of art is that you feel. His art makes you feel,” Richard Badger Jr. said. Badger, who goes by the artist name Coyote Rich, is also an artist in residence at 100% MKE.
Robinson first fell in love with art through his grandfather, who painted signs for corner stores. Early memories of drawing contests with his grandfather enchanted Squire into the art world.
Later, Robinson drew comics and superhero characters, foreshadowing the powerful figures he paints today.
“My style has always been there, it’s just evolution, it grows and changes,” Robinson said.
Robinson, a 2024 graduate of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, has always had a certain fascination with Renaissance-era paintings.
Yet despite his appreciation of the style, something was missing.
“I appreciated the technique and skill, but I just couldn’t really relate to it,” Robinson said.
For him, the lack of diversity made the style feel distant.
Black culture in art
Now, Robinson’s style flows through the powerful Black people he paints.
“I took some of that flavor and remixed it to something that is more me,” Robinson said. “My inspiration comes from Black culture, music and my dreams.”
Robinson’s own personality is vehemently present in each of his pieces.
“His art has a very strong personality behind it,” said Nelle Speerschneider, a co-founding board member of 100% MKE.
By the end of a lengthy creative process, Robinson’s pieces are saturated with color and shapes that make viewers stop and stare. For Robinson, that’s the goal.
“To me, good art is when you can just stare at it and sit with it and think,” Robinson said. “If you see my work and walk right past it, then I didn’t do something right.”
Music and the flow state
Robinson said when he is met with a blank canvas, he doesn’t begin with a person or a setting; he starts with the mood. Then, with the help of music, he lets his art flow.
“I don’t try to contain the style, it’s just all me,” Robinson said.
Music is a big deal for Robinson. So much so that he can’t paint without it. Robinson’s taste in music, from classical and jazz to his love for Kendrick Lamar, seeps into his art.
“Squire’s art makes me feel like music,” Badger said.
Robinson said music helps him loosen up and get out of a funk.
“It helps me escape and enter that flow state,” Robinson said.
He said music supports his ethereal creative process.
“Sometimes when I paint, I feel like I’m being guided by something higher than me,” Robinson said.
Milwaukee made
As a young figure in the Milwaukee art scene, Robinson wears the city on his sleeve.
“Growing up in Milwaukee made me hard in the sense of staying true to myself,” Robinson said.
At 100% MKE, Robinson offers a unique voice. “It’s nice to have his youthful and urban take in the studio,” Speerschneider said.
Badger said young artists like Robinson are vital for pushing the scene forward.
“They’re the driving force of what Milwaukee looks and feels like,” he said.
Future goals
Going forward, Robinson wants to become an art therapist, someone who uses the medium of art to process emotional challenges.
“Art has always been a way to self-express and get my own feelings out,” Robinson said. “That’s why the tone of my paintings matters the most, because those feelings are what I’m trying to evoke.”
As for his art career, Robinson says his finest work is yet to come.
“I haven’t created my best one yet.”
Jonathan Aguilar is a visual journalist at Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service who is supported through a partnership between CatchLight Local and Report for America.
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Milwaukee, WI
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The Brewers drafted 20 players over the course of 20 rounds in the 2026 MLB Draft, including first-round shortstop Trey Ebel, second-round outfielder Sawyer Strosnider, Wilmot Union HS (Wisconsin) shortstop Chance Ruby, and CC Sabathia’s son, first baseman Carsten Sabathia III. The team now has until 4 p.m. CT on July 27 to sign each draft pick. We’ll keep track of the signees below.
Milwaukee’s total signing bonus pool is $8,042,900, which can be allocated as the team chooses (i.e., slot bonuses are not the guaranteed signing value). Rounds 11-20 automatically have $150,000 allocated to the slot — money given to these picks only counts toward the bonus pool if they exceed $150,000. Teams that exceed their bonus pool face financial penalties, with higher thresholds resulting in the loss of future picks.
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