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UW women’s basketball: With Stone out, UWGB coach cast as ‘sexy’ candidate

Lisa Stone was brought in to lift the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball program to a new level. But after eight seasons of modest success mixed with disappointments, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez concluded it wasn?t going to happen. So one day after the Badgers completed a tantalizingly frustrating season with a loss to Illinois State in the WNIT, Alvarez decided it was time for a change.