[lawrence-newsletter]Yesterday afternoon, it was announced that the next generation of the Ryan family would be looking to bring a Wisconsin program to new heights. Former Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan’s oldest son Will Ryan was announced as the next head men’s basketball coach at UW-Green Bay.
Sources tell @WBAY that Will Ryan will be the next head coach of @gbphoenixmbb . The son of Bo Ryan is head coach at D2 Wheeling University in WV. Spent 12 years as D1 asst under Saul Phillips, also worked with dad with Badgers
— Chris Roth (@rothchris) June 6, 2020
Ryan spent last season as the head coach at Wheeling University in West Virginia, a small, private NCAA Division II program. This past season, in Ryan’s only season at the helm, Wheeling went 14-13 overall. From 2007-2019 at North Dakota State and Ohio University, Ryan spent 12 years as an assistant at the Division One level under Head Coach Saul Phillips.
The hiring of Ryan comes after former Phoenix Head Coach Linc Darner surprisingly came to an agreement with the UW-Green Bay to mutually part ways. Over five seasons in Green Bay, Darner went 92-80 and shockingly led Green Bay to the NCAA Tournament in his first year in 2015-16. The parting of ways came as a surprise to many given the success that Darner had and his reputation with the players.
It will now be up to the son of arguably the greatest coach in the history of the state of Wisconsin to lead UW-Green Bay to new heights.