In the spirit of ESPN’s recently completed review of home court advantage in the nation’s top 10 conferences – welcome to the unofficial rankings for the Horizon League. This is not purely a facility review, but a comprehensive, fact-based (but still totally subjective) look at the overall difficulty of winning at each home court. Regardless…
Vashil is back. This offseason, the NCAA granted Vashil Fernandez a fourth season of eligibility after previously ruling Fernandez had only three years to play D1 basketball. This surprise decision should be sweet music to Crusader fans’ ears; I’m going to explain exactly why this ruling is more important than you probably think it is….
The Horizon League tournament just got moved to a neutral site in Detroit for the next 5 years, Northern Kentucky looks like they were just added to the league… so now seams like a perfect time to reflect on the past. Recently there’s been talk about a hypothetical contest between the 2013 team and 2015 team….
Hard to believe–my third year of doing this. Of course, I do it a little differently each time. (For proof, or for just a fun trip down Homer Ct, er, Memory Ln, here’s 2012 and here’s 2013.) 2014! It was better than 2013 for the HL. Want proof? Last year we only had 3 T100…
All the talk about recruiting this year and the year after next (ok, I started that one) got me thinking…where are we for next year? (If you read this on the forum–the entire thing–skip to the end for the excursus on the Mac Irvin Fire.) Happy Trails Ryan Fazekas (Providence) Aaron Jordan (Illinois) LuWane Pipkins…
2013 wasn’t the best of years, whether you were expecting to keep your plan, period, or whether you were a Horizon League team playing non-conference games. (Although at least the HL didn’t lose 5 million people.) Let’s see it out with a thorough look back. After that we can make like my friend KC…
Maybe King LeCrone and all of his horses and all of his men CAN actually put the Mid-Con back together again. With Tuesday’s less-than-stunning announcement that Oakland University has joined the Horizon League, the conference took one step closer to the golden era of 1993. The addition of the Grizzlies brings the Horizon League membership…
The second offer to go out, as reported earlier, is Tai Odiase. 6’8, 205 lb Pf/C from Homewood-Flossmoor (Illinois, just in case. This is the Internet. One can hardly assume anything any more.) AAU Meanstreets, um, yeah, the one Derrick Rose and Eric Gordon used to play for–not to mention #1 pick Anthony Davis. Jubril Adekoya…
According to VerbalCommits, the first known offer to this class is Erick Locke. 6’0, 180 lb PG from Oak Park-River Forest (transferred back after soph years at Brooks College Prep.) AAU: Illinois Wolves (“one of the best programs in the Midwest for close to the last decade” featuring OSU commit Keita Bates-Diop), currently ranked #11…
9) Milwaukee (8-23 overall) Numbers in parentheses are first, before conference play began and second, where RPIForecast predicted them; stats courtesy rpi-forecast.com RPI: 304 (330 midseason / 331 predicted) SOS: 170 (269 / 216) W/L: 3-13 (4-10 / 2-14) Best case / worst case: 3-13 / 0-16 What happened: Was best case, although you’d be…
