Posts Tagged ‘Horizon League’
Butler Rolls in Horizon League Championship
By: Bill Kintner in: Columns
9 Mar 2010Butler jumped out early on Wright State and was in control for most of the Horizon League Championship en route to a blowout win.
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Wright State, Butler Advance to Finals Once Again
By: Bill Kintner in: Columns
7 Mar 2010The Horizon League championship game matchup is now set, and it has a familiar look to it.
Horizon League Quarterfinals – Detroit Frustrates Green Bay, Milwaukee Takes Down Cleveland State
By: Bill Kintner in: Conference Notes
6 Mar 2010For Detroit it was part big man in the middle and part penetrating guards and part taking Green Bay’s leading scorer out of his game. All of this added up to a 62-53 win for the Titans in the Horizon League Championship quarter-final game. The nightcap was similar to the first game only this time it was Milwaukee scoring the first basketball and going wire-to-wire to win 82-75 over Cleveland State.
Bracket Breakdown: Three Conference Tournaments That Bubble Teams Should Fear
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
13 Feb 2010Three potentially one-bid conferences could steal at-large spots from bubble teams if the favorites fail to win their conference tournaments.
Bracket Buster: Northeastern Shuts Down Wright State
By: Bill Kintner in: Conference Notes
21
Feb
2009
In this game of two defensive-minded teams, Wright State succeeded in shutting down Northeastern’s two top scorers, but their whole effort sprung a leak as Chaisson Allen exploded for 22 points and Eugene Spates had a career day, as the Huskies defeated Wright State 69-57.
Everybody’s doing it. Everybody denies it, but everybody’s doing it. At this time of the year, every coaching staff in America is scrutinizing its remaining schedule. Can we win our conference? Can we get a conference tournament bye? Can we get an at-large bid to one tournament to another?
26
Jan
2009
Tonight Wright State held University of Illinois-Chicago to just five buckets in the second half and a school record 31 points in the game as the Raiders win 57-31.
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Horizon Notebook: Butler Too Good for Green Bay in Battle for First Place
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
26
Jan
2009
The Wisconsin-Green Bay team may not have read this space recently, as we had long decided that the Horizon regular season belongs to Butler. In fact, the only question that remains in the mind of this writer is whether Butler will lose a single game, either in the Horizon regular season or in a conference tournament in which it will need to win but twice, both games at home.
Another day, another defensive gem for the Wright State Raiders as they held Loyola to 29.4 percent shooting for the game and 15.4 percent in the second half to get a homecourt win, 68-47.
Horizon Notebook – CSU Loses Wisconsin Two-Step for the Two-Seed
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
20
Jan
2009
Coming into the weekend just past, with Butler a perfect 5-0, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Wisconsin-Milwaukee each had one loss, Cleveland State had two, and Wright State had three. And predictably, Butler stayed perfect, taking care of business this weekend in Chicago, beating Loyola and Illinois-Chicago; also predictably, Wright State took care of business in its lone game at Detroit, still stuck on three losses. So there was Cleveland State on its annual brutal trek through Wisconsin, needing two wins to be tied for second and a split to stay close; it got neither.
Horizon Notebook: Great Week Clarifies Horizon Race – or Does it?
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
12
Jan
2009
By late Friday evening I was pretty sure what I was going to write in this space. With Wright State still playing without injured star Vaughn Duggins, 20th ranked Butler had no trouble dispatching the Raiders at home on Thursday night, 64-48. Remarkably (truly remarkably), Loyola-a team that I said elsewhere with some hyperbole does not have a true Division I player on its roster–removed Wisconsin-Green Bay from the ranks of conference undefeated, upsetting the Phoenix 62-60 on Monday night on Chicago’s north side.
9
Jan
2009
It is a typical year in the Horizon League, the tenth ranked conference according to the RPI rankings. Butler is rolling along coming into the game 12-1 and a perfect 3-0 in Horizon League play.
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Horizon Notebook: Brownell Leads Wright State Back Into Race
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
2
Jan
2009
There are some really good coaches in the Horizon League. Jimmy Collins was really good back when I was on a staff that faced him in the late 90s, and has been to 3 NCAAs and an NIT since. Homer Drew is a legend at Valpo (and could pass for a man twenty years his junior). Brad Stevens at Butler appears to be the best young coach in the country.
It took their patented defense in the first half and an offensive explosion in the second half, to give Wright State their first league win of the season, at home, over Cleveland State 71-62.
Horizon Notebook: Greatest Week Ever (Ha!), Plus Four Ideas
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
24
Dec
2008
Let it be first said in this space, loudly and clearly: the eight days stretching from Friday December 19th, 2008 through Friday December 26th, 2008 likely were the greatest single week in the history of the Horizon League. And that would make last night—Tuesday December 23, 2008—the greatest single night.
Horizon League Notebook – Scheduling Issues and Cupcakes
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
18
Dec
2008
If you’re inferring some annoyance on the part of this writer with schools scheduling “cupcakes,” well, you’re inferring correctly. In addition to Detroit’s game this past week with Aquinas, Jimmy Collins’ vaunted UIC team played D-II Lewis College (a school I’d never heard of), and on its upcoming three-game home stand, Cleveland State will play both D-III La Roche College and D-III Notre Dame College (that’s not the Notre Dame we all know and love – the one CSU should be playing). If any of these schools find themselves on the wrong side of the bubble for an at-large NCAA bid (or for an NIT bid), they need look no further than their own schedules to learn why.
DAYTON – Wright State finally broke out of their losing streak and even set a new record for the fewest points allowed as they beat Toledo 50-35 at the Nutter Center.
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Horizon League Notebook – Conference Games in December
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
6
Dec
2008
Coaches (present and former) come out differently about conference games in December. “Purists” are vehemently against, claiming this time of year is for learning and teaching, often claiming they’re not ready to begin conference play. A former (and still often) purist, I love league games in December, jumping right into games with real meaning and intensity.
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It is Saturday afternoon in Indiana and 5,000 college basketball fans including Governor Mitch Daniels are engaging in the state pastime, which is basketball.
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Horizon League Notebook – Early Showdown between Butler and Cleveland State
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
30
Nov
2008
Butler Bulldogs have completed the first portion of their non-conference schedule undefeated, and will bring a 5-0 record into Wolstein Center Thursday night to face preseason Horizon favorite Cleveland State.
Horizon Notebook: Wide-Open Race with CSU’s Defeat
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
19 Nov 2008With CSU Soundly Beaten in Seattle, the Horizon is Officially Wide Open
Horizon Notebook: If Wright State Manages to Recruit Some Players, Look Out
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
25 Jan 2008They defended so well the night before New Year’s Eve against Cleveland State that I couldn’t wait for my next chance to see them play; that came last night in the Nutter Center in their conference game hosting Illinois-Chicago.
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