Green Bay Looks to Play Bigger than Seeding Wisconsin-Green Bay's women's basketball team is done questioning the N.C.A.A."s wisdom in seeding it seventh in the Kingston region. The Phoenix felt they merited a better seed, due to their 30-1 record and winning the Horizon League's regular season and tournament titles. Last year, Green Bay came into the tournament with a 32-1 record and was a No. 5 seed. They reached the third round, the best showing in school history,and lost to No. 1 seed Baylor, 86-76, in Dallas. This year's tournament starts Saturday for Green Bay, as they will travel to Ames to take on No. 10 Iowa State (18-12). The game has a bit of deja vu to it, as the Phoenix lost to the Cyclones in the second round of the 2010 tournament, 60-56, in a game also played on Iowa State's home turf. "I'd be lying if I was not disappointed that we got placed on their home court," Green Bay Coach Matt Bollant told The Appleton (Wisc.) Post Crescent. To be a No. 7 seed when last year we were a five ... but we can't control that. We talk all the time in this program, control what you can control. There are certain variables in life you can't control. We can't control what seed they gave us. We can control how well we play. Bollant knows the history of mid-majors in the women's tournament, that the big programs still rule the roost. The last mid-major school to make the Final Four was the Jackie Stiles-led Missouri State team in 2001. "It's actually a bigger gap from mid-majors for the women than the men," Bollant told The Chicago Tribune. A men's team like Butler isn't physically very different from the top schools. On the women's side, the top teams are just quicker, stronger and bigger. The Phoenix are not headlined by any major stars, sticking to more of a collaborative philosophy. Practices are tough, creating team chemistry and spreading Green Bay's defensive-minded, grind-it-out philosophy from one class to the next. "The first time you hear one of your teammates yelling at you, it can be hard to take," junior forward Lydia Bauer told the Tribune. But if they are on you hard during practice, they make sure to come up to you after practice to see how you are doing and that you are not taking it personally. The idea is for you to stay driven to get better every day.