HoriZone Roundtable

While Milwaukee’s Horizon League season ended with a disappointing showing in the tournament semifinals, their season isn’t over yet. The team accepted an invitation...

HL tourney champs have March 16 date with Cougars The Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team has waited since last March for this moment.  For...

If you are reading this article right now, odds are you already know that Northern Kentucky University (22-12, HL 16-6) won the Barbasol Horizon...

As far as the finals of the Horizon League tournament is concerned, you couldn't have picked a more even match-up between Cleveland State and...

Northern Kentucky was a single shot away from making the NCAA Tournament last year, so the stakes to win the Horizon League tournament, even...

There's a line of thought that it's hard to beat a team three times in a season in college basketball. Milwaukee's quarterfinal opponent Wright State didn't have too much trouble pulling off t I think the phrase needs to be amended slightly: it's hard to beat a good team three times in a season. Milwaukee's struggles against Wright State in each of the first two games between the teams led to massive deficits that the Panthers had to spend serious energy trying to erase. In January the Panthers trailed the visiting Raiders 61-45 with 10:23 to play before a furious rally forced overtime, only to fall short in a 78-74 loss. The trip to Ohio went even worse for Milwaukee, which trailed 47-26 at halftime and looked to be on its way to a deflating loss before a late rally once again fell short. The Panthers got back within five late before falling 93-86. The end result was Wright State looking like Milwaukee's kryptonite and becoming the lone team with a regular season sweep of the Panthers.

Every year I get asked questions around this topic. It started when Oakland really seemed, to some, to have a problem with transfers leaving...