The Horizon League through some rocky times has seen a pair of programs emerge as its best, and Northern Kentucky and Wright State engaged in a good league race in 2018-19 with the Norse making their second NCAA trip in three years.
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2017-18 Horizon League Post-Mortem
For a host of reasons, these are dark times right now for the Horizon League. And the 2017-18 season may have been rock bottom.
2016-17 Horizon League Post-Mortem
The 2016-17 season continued a run of a bumpy couple of years for the Horizon League, with more than its share of changes and challenges.
The Morning Dish – Friday, December 16, 2016
With so many colleges in the midst of final exams and rightly keeping their schedules short, the highlights were limited in the sport Thursday night. Most of the action took place in the Atlantic and South regions of the country.
2015-16 Horizon League Post-Mortem
For a year at least, the Horizon League harkened back to some glory years, with a collection of individual talent the conference hasn’t seen in perhaps a long time.
UW-Green Bay cranking up pressure on both ends under new coach
Few programs have built more of an identity with defense, but make no mistake, though-UW-Green Bay now and for the foreseeable future is going to be known for offense.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Conversation about the “bubble” will dominate college basketball for the next 3 1/2 weeks. Though at times it will encroach on being overkill, it’s pretty hard to ignore at the moment, and unfortunately for a number of teams that’s not a good thing.
Trojans, Mavericks reminiscent of 1997-98 runs by UIC, Detroit
It’s been a long time since a conference furnished two teams coming from seemingly nowhere to challenge for NCAA Tournament berths the way the Sun Belt Conference has this year with Arkansas-Little Rock and Texas-Arlington.
2014-15 Horizon League Post-Mortem
Rather quietly, Bryce Drew is building a formidable program at Valparaiso, which won a Horizon League title for the third time in four years.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 22, 2015
When it comes to the lists of the very best teams in March, the current list of usual suspects starts with names like Arizona, Duke, Kentucky, Michigan State. It’s high time another school was added to that elite hierarchy in the sport.
