HoriZone Roundtable

Purdue Fort Wayne was able to pull off the sweep against Milwaukee led by Jarred Godfrey once again. On Friday, the Mastodons won 81-72,...

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The Milwaukee Panthers hosted Purdue Fort Wayne for a pair of Horizon League Games over the weekend. Milwaukee battled, holding the lead throughout the...

After two consecutive weekend splits, Wright State would return home for a crucial series against Cleveland State. The Vikings would come into the weekend undefeated...

If Cleveland State wants to take the next step as a program and constantly compete against the upper echelon teams in the Horizon League,...

During the off-season, I put together my best guess on what the Horizon League All-Freshman team might look like. While I acknowledged Northern Kentucky's Marques Warrick, I thought the incoming and returning backcourt talent at NKU would have proven too much for Warrick to get major minutes right away despite him being one of the highest regarded freshmen in the league. With star rankings having less to do with early success than opportunity at the mid-major level, I thought he'd need to wait his turn to break out. Whoops! Warrick is second on NKU in scoring with 13.9 points per game, one of just two players averaging double-figures for the Norse. He has taken home four of the Horizon League's six Freshman of the Week awards to date. Barring injury, he might not even need to play as well as he has so far in the next 12 games to come away with the Horizon League Freshman of the Year award. The only other freshman averaging double-figures in the league is Youngstown State's Shemar Rathan-Mayes at 10.8 points per game, and he hasn't been nearly as efficient as Warrick to date.

Last week, our friends at Phear the Phoenix came up with a great way to lessen the blow of 10 months away from fellow fans with a Green Bay Phoenix-based drinking game. Hopefully the direct link and a very upfront acknowledgement that we're stealing the idea will lessen the blow of us COMPLETELY stealing the idea for a Horizon League-wide version. Starting tonight when the first place Cleveland State Vikings face off with the second place Wright State Raiders (or...third place by win percentage I guess? This season is weird) on ESPNU, we'll host the first of a weekly drinking game aimed to bring fans closer together at a time when we can't be together. We're still figuring out the best way to run this, but for the time being follow along on Twitter to make sure you don't miss out. Be sure to use the hashtag #HLMBBWTO...and let us know if we miss a drink!

Now I know it’s been a few weeks since I’ve talked about Youngstown State men’s Basketball. Don’t you worry, though, I’m back and better...

It happened! Somebody other than IUPUI took over at the top of the Power Rankings! ...because IUPUI was forced into a COVID-19 stoppage and won't be appearing in this week's rankings. The timing likely stole a second straight Horizon League Player of the Week award from Macee Williams, who has been posting better numbers than the ones required to take the award this week even when she spends most of the fourth quarter resting for the next game because the Jaguars are up by 25. Joining IUPUI on the sidelines due to COVID-19 protocols this week are fellow Horizon League undefeated Northern Kentucky as well as Robert Morris and UIC. Also, we're calling it Week 7. It'll get too confusing otherwise.