HoriZone Roundtable

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...

In what was their first NCAA tournament game since 2009, the Cleveland State Vikings faced off with one of the most prolific teams in...

Cleveland State capped off a stunning Horizon League season by adding a League Tournament Title to its shared Regular Season Title. After our staff picked the Vikings for fourth place in the league and Horizon League voters picked CSU for seventh, the team jumped out to a hot start that had it two games ahead of overwhelming favorite Wright State at the mid-point of the season. Depth has been the key for the Vikings, with 10 players playing in at least 20 games and an eleventh playing in 18 with several missed due to injury. Cleveland State's bench went nine players deep into its bench on several occasions this season. That depth and the fresh legs that came from it might've been an underrated element of the team's success this season, with the Horizon League opting to play one opponent on back-to-back nights in the same building every weekend of league play.

With the loss in the Horizon League Tournament finals, it begins the part of the year Oakland University fans have come to dread.Transfer season.As...