HoriZone Roundtable

Purdue Fort Wayne is on a four-game losing streak after falling to Oakland with glaring defensive issues. With an 81-66 loss on Friday, followed...

One of the really nice things about the Horizon League Women's Power Rankings is that frequent sweeps resulted in very clearly drawn lines through most of the league. Apparently the occasional weekend full of sweeps isn't having the same impact on the men's side. Despite five out of six matchups this weekend ending with one team winning both games, there was significant change from last week's Power Rankings. At least the top two teams in the league are doing their part to make things easy on me? Once again, every team in the league was able to take the court, and as a result everyone appears in this week's rankings.

Cleveland State’s ability to hold onto leads in the second half was tested this past weekend in their series versus Green Bay. The Vikings...

This weekend, the Horizon League's men's basketball teams seemed to be following the lead that has been set on the women's side for much of the season. Of the six series this weekend, five ended in sweeps. Because of this, things remained steady at the top of the league, but across the board there were significant shakeups. Here's a rundown of what happened this weekend:

Wright State would once again start the weekend out on national television, playing against new Horizon League team, Robert Morris. To the surprise of everyone,...

It happened! Somebody other than IUPUI took over at the top of the Power Rankings! ...because IUPUI was forced into a COVID-19 stoppa- ...wait, what? Milwaukee took over the top spot because they swept IUPUI? Well, that's enough to say that this weekend broke what has otherwise been a very straightforward Horizon League Women's Basketball season. But that was far from the craziest result of the weekend. The Jaguars may have been the unanimous favorite to win the league in the Preseason Poll, but the Panthers entered the weekend 10-0 in Horizon League play. After the top five teams in the league had dominated all season, the bottom half of the league came through strong with three massive upsets.

So...most of the league is a mess and I'm going to run out of goofy ways to rank everyone between 3 and 11 if I use them all up this early. I guess I'll just try to rank a bunch of wildly inconsistent teams using...logic and reasoning. Lame. This week, Milwaukee finally proving that teams could punch up at Cleveland state was the biggest story. If the Panthers can pull it off without Tafari Simms – who came out of nowhere to become one of the league's more potent offensive threats – the Vikings perceived easier path to a Horizon League Title might not prove so easy. This weekend, all 12 teams in the Horizon League were in action so nobody will be left out of the rankings.

Wright State would head into this weekend attempting to pick up double-digit wins for the 21st season in a row, facing IUPUI. Pregame, the Jaguars...