Green Bay center Jenna Guyer (30) celebrates as Purdue Fort Wayne calls a time out in the championship of the Horizon League tournament in Indianapolis, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)

Jenna Guyer’s breakthrough season with Green Bay has the fifth-year senior reconsidering her post-college plans.

For now, though, she is trying to put off those choices by delaying the end of her college career as much as possible.

Guyer has Green Bay back in the NCAA Tournament for a third straight year after scoring 21 points in the Phoenix’s 57-49 Horizon League Tournament championship game victory over Youngstown State. Green Bay (25-8) will try to advance beyond the opening round of the NCAAs for the first time since 2012 on Friday at Minnesota (22-8). Tip-off is at 5 p.m.

“It’s kind of been our main goal this year, is getting into the tournament, but we don’t just stop there,” the 6-foot-2 forward/center said. “We say we want to win a game and do some damage there.”

Green Bay showed it could play at this level last year, when the 12th-seeded Phoenix trailed Alabama by just five points with seven minutes left before falling 81-67. This year, Guyer wants to help her team take the next step.

“Knowing we can compete with anybody is huge going into this tournament,” Guyer said.

Guyer played 15 minutes off the bench in that Alabama game as part of a senior-laden team, but she needed to take on a greater role this season. She also had to adapt to playing power forward as well as center.

She responded by averaging 15.1 points and 6.3 rebounds as the Horizon League player of the year. Guyer also was the most valuable player of the Horizon League Tournament.

Guyer graduated with a degree in human biology in December 2024 and is on track to finish her master’s program for applied biotechnology this fall. Guyer plans to pursue a career in the medical field but could put that on hold to play basketball overseas.

“I feel like this year I’ve had so much fun,” Guyer said. “It’s kind of hard to put so much time into something and then it just be over. I’m kind of maybe just thinking about playing a year or two and seeing where that takes me.”