HoriZone Roundtable

With the NCAA giving athletes an extra year of eligibility, we are tracking players in the Horizon League as to whether they will take...

Returning Seniors: None Juniors: F Emmanuel Ansong, G Blayton Williams Sophomores: G Donovan Moore, G Mitch Listau (transfer portal) Freshman: G Lucas Stieber, F Japannah Kellogg, F Ryan...

We finally got clarity on the status of IUPUI's head coaching job on Friday, when the school announced it wouldn't retain Byron Rimm II. Rimm was named interim coach for the 2020 season after Jason Gardner abruptly resigned following an OWI arrest, and led the Jaguars to a RECORD record. Despite reports of candidates interviewing for the position, the school opted to retain Rimm for another year. The result was a much-improved team, finishing 8-10 overall and 7-9 during the Horizon League regular season. Nonetheless, the team decided to go in a different direction. A likely contributing factor is that Marcus Burk, Jaylen Minnett and Elyjah Goss — three Gardner recruits who carried an insane amount of the workload for the Jaguars — have indicated they won't be returning for next year. As a result, the first Horizon League Men's Basketball coaching search of the season is underway. As with Green Bay last offseason, listed candidates will be limited based on previous salaries offered by the involved schools. While that's not how things played out for UIC last year when the school gave Luke Yaklich half a million dollars per season, those types of dramatic increases aren't the norm. That doesn't completely exclude coaches making more than IUPUI's projected salary — which should be about in line with the 175,000 Green Bay is paying Will Ryan annually — as Dennis Gates took a six-figure pay decrease to leave Florida State for Cleveland State. It will make it difficult to list a coach like Gates — who went from making 400,000 dollars per year at FSU to 280,000 per year at CSU — for this opening. Here are some names that could be in play for the IUPUI opening:

As I’ve taken some time to reflect on the season that was for the Cleveland State Vikings men’s basketball program, the one constant remains...