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.
Niece
quickly led the Northern Kentucky Norse as a point guard. In her
freshman year she started in 28 of their 29 games averaging 9.7 points
per game. Niece posted a career-high of 22 points in her freshman
campaign. The 2019-20 season Niece 13.1 points per game and accumulated a
career-high of 27 points against Milwaukee.
Niece
has been named to the Horizon League All-Freshman team in 2019, 2020
All-Horizon League Second Team, 2020 Horizon League All-Tournament Team
and FIU Thanksgiving Invitational All-Tournament Team.
Taylor Clos, Campbell County
The
Norse point guard completed her freshman campaign with 10.1 points per
game. In her first season she drained 52 3-pointers, dished out 54
assists and had a team high tying 27 steals. Her 2019-20 season clipped a
career-high 19 points against UIC. Clos averaged 8.6 points per game
playing in 26 of NKU’s 32 games.
Old school: Northern Kentucky | New school: Arkansas
Predicting
how Musselman will fuse four freshmen and two transfers with the
returning roster is a challenge. But his history suggests he'll have a
plan, and Tate figures to be big part of it. The lanky wing is a
potential All-SEC defender who can distribute, rebound and, if
necessary, score. He'll have a chance to do it all for the Hogs after
three great seasons with one of the Horizon League's top programs.
Darrin Horn:
Only two first-year coaches took home automatic bids to a 2020 NCAA
Tournament that never was. Horn and his NKU Norse were there with
Belmont in doing so. The Norse finished 23-9 and won the Horizon League
title out of the No. 2 seed spot, beating UIC in the championship game
on March 10, approximately 44 hours before the season was killed. When
NKU made this hire, Horn was a bolt from the blue; almost no one
realized he was the favorite until news broke that he landed the job.
One year in, it looks like the right call. The school has three tourney
titles in the past four years.
