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UW men’s basketball: Grizzlies remind Owens of his senior year with Badgers

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? Few people remember, but Freddie Owens was recruited by former University of Wisconsin men?s basketball coach Dick Bennett to be the Badgers? defensive stopper. ?They were grooming me to be the next Mike Kelley,” said Owens, now an assistant coach at Montana, which faces the Badgers in a second-round NCAA tournament game Thursday.