The Milwaukee Bucks have named Lisa Byington as the team’s new television play-by-play announcer on Bally Sports Wisconsin, making her the first woman to handle full-time TV play-by-play duties for a major men’s professional sports team. Byington replaces longtime Bucks announcer Jim Paschke, who retired following the 2020-21 season after serving as the team’s television play-by-play announcer for the previous 35 years. Bucks and Fiserv Forum president Peter Feigin announced Byington’s hiring Wednesday. In a statement, Byington said she was “absolutely thrilled” at the opportunity “to work with a first-class franchise and a championship organization like the Milwaukee Bucks.” Byington, who previously did play-by-play for the Women’s World Cup on Fox in 2019, became the first woman to call NCAA men’s basketball tournament games in March as part of the CBS/Turner Sports coverage. She subsequently was behind the mic for men’s and women’s soccer games at the Tokyo Olympics for NBC Sports. From 2017 to 2019, Byington worked as a sideline reporter for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Byington has broadcast games for Fox Sports, FS1, Big Ten Network, CBS, Turner Sports, Pac-12 Network, ESPN and the SEC Network in both play-by-play and reporter roles. She played basketball and soccer while attending Northwestern University.