Primarily a collection of news links about all 11 Horizon League teams on a daily basis, culled from online newspapers, school athletic websites, the conference website, and school newspapers, plus some other content from time to time.
The Buffs then spend two weeks at home, playing Portland, CSU, South Dakota, and UIC. Portland under Terry Porter has been feisty, CSU has talent and a brand new coach, South Dakota had a great program under Craig Smith (who left for Utah State this offseason) and may cause a scare, and UIC (coached by former CU assistant Steve McClain) are athletic as hell.
The Jaguars keep making small steps in the Horizon (5th, L; 6th, A; 7th SS), led by transfers Mike Sagay (Boston College), Camron Justice (Vanderbilt), Grant Weatherford (Purdue) and Ahmed Ismail (Manhattan).
One of the other five inductees will be Thomas Schrage, who played on the Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team when he was 33 years old. Schrage enlisted in the Army after high school and served in the Vietnam War. After he was discharged in 1970, he resumed his basketball career playing in high-level amateur leagues before joining the NKU team for the 1979-80 season.
Deon is the younger brother of Melvin Ejim, who was the 2014 Big 12 Player of the Year and an All-American at Iowa State. Ejim led his high school (TRC Academy) to the provincial (state) title and was named MVP of the playoffs. The 6’7 Ejim is another high basketball IQ player who just seems to know where to be on every play. He will join three other Canadians this year at UIC who can now challenge Oregon for the title of “Team Canada South.”
The fifth and final NCAA tournament squad on the slate comes in the form of Marquette’s yearly game against Green Bay. The Phoenix have won four straight Horizon League tournaments and (this is not a typo) 20 straight HL regular season titles.
