Minnetonka Basketball Star to Leave UW-Green Bay

Former Minnetonka basketball star Cole Stefan is once again changing schools.  

The sophomore has asked to be released from his scholarship with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay the Green Bay Press Gazette reported Thursday.  

Stefan began his collegiate career at La Salle University during the 2010-11 season. He averaged 4.6 points per game with the Explorers, according to ESPN. But he didn’t enroll in any school in the fall of 2011 because of concussions.  

Stefan transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and joined the team as a walk-on in January 2012, according to the school. He told the Press Gazette he was leaving because the program wasn’t a good fit and he couldn’t reach his full potential there.  

In high school, Stefan was a Minnesota Mr. Basketball finalist, averaged 19.3 points per game in his senior year and helped Minnetonka to a state championship in 2008. ESPNU ranked him as the 54th ranked shooting guard nationally.  

Stefan is the fifth player to leave the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in less than four months—departures that follow an investigation into allegations that men's basketball coach Brian Wardle mistreated at least one former player.  

The university allowed Wardle to keep his job but reprimanded him, assigned him an advisor for the 2013-14 season and will not extend his contract this year beyond its current end date of 2017, according to USA Today.