There wasn’t a players-only meeting or group text.  There wasn’t a frenzied outreach effort from the coaching staff.  There wasn’t a singular inflection point, or a moment that affected the hearts and minds of student-athletes with...

If history is any indication, we are getting very close to a few announcements, even as non-conference schedules slowly start coming out (IU-Indy and Green Bay have already released). The conference schedule, which was revamped last year to accommodate academics and travel...

Welcome (back) to the Starting Five, your rundown of the key stories in #HLWBB since the last Starting Five post. 1. Lady of Spain The podium at the recently-concluded 2024 Summer Olympics had a Horizon League basketball...

Cleveland State will open the 2024-25 season on November 5th with arguably its toughest test of the entire campaign: a battle two hours down Interstate 71, at Ohio State. The Buckeyes, of course, need little introduction to anyone in...

After two seasons of home-cooked turkey and mashed potatoes over Thanksgiving weekend while hosting the Viking Invitational multi-team event, Cleveland State will add some jambalaya to the menu in November when the Vikings compete at the Big Easy Classic in New Orleans.

Every great team is special from the top to the bottom. In sports, you often hear about the guys on the roster playing well and gelling together, from the best player on the team to the last guy on the bench. 

If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that change is inevitable. It’s been especially true over the past decade with the departures of Loyola-Chicago, Valpo and UIC and the arrivals of IUPUI (Now IU-Indy), Purdue Fort Wayne and Robert Morris.

Over the last few years, the transfer portal has become the primary source of player movement in college basketball. Each summer, across the country, star players find a bigger stage with more available NIL money, lightly-used reserves bet on themselves and look...