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.
There were so many close calls that nearly ended up as banner material for
our blog, but alas. We will give as many of them as we can an honorable
mention here. For the men: Oakland at Purdue, Fairfield
at Penn State, SEMO at Mizzou, Eastern Washington at UCLA (kinda), Eastern
Washington at Colorado (for sure), Montana State at Colorado, Hofstra at
UCF, North Alabama at Mississippi State, Hawaii at Oregon, Rice at Oregon,
Marist at Xavier, Le Moyne at Xavier (something something Pitino nepotism
something), Weber State at Utah, Southern Miss at South Carolina, and
Southeastern Louisiana at Georgia Tech.
And for the women: Stetson at Bama, Auburn at Charlotte,
New Haven at Xavier, Purdue Fort Wayne at Xavier, IU Indy at Northwestern,
Georgia Southern at Florida State, UC Riverside at Arizona, Tennessee at
UT Martin, Lindenwood at Baylor, UNC Greensboro at Auburn, and Central
Arkansas at Arkansas.
IU Indy, “The System,” and the Game of the Year?
Once a dumpster fire known to many as “ooie pooie” and hosting open
tryouts to fill roster spots, IU Indy basketball has turned itself into,
well, a possible cure for the male loneliness epidemic. Maybe they’re not
a great team that will win a lot of games yet, but they can score a lot of
points, thanks to “The System” run by Ben Howlett (not Howland), the head
coach. (Read more about their style of play
here.)
Any time you have a team running something called The System, be it the
90’s LMU teams or the legend of Grinnell College, you’re going to have a
lot of fun watching them. On opening night, they hung 102 points on Ohio
State. Then, against another pace pushing team,
they lost by four
in a crazy game to Long Island.
Would you rather watch a great team or a fun team? If you’re a male
struggling with loneliness at the moment, you might want to consider
giving the Jaguars a watch.
Don’t be like this lonely guy and reject our help.
Mid-Major
Madness’ favorite story of the season, IU Indy, won its first game of
the year on Tuesday afternoon. The Jaguars took down NAIA opponent IU
Columbus 121-77, forcing a ridiculous 36 turnovers and attempting 92
field goal attempts to IU Columbus’s 56. The game was a whopping 100
possessions!!.
Oakland Golden Grizzlies at No. 1 Houston Cougars - Can Oakland
scare the top team in the country again?
Will this game be close? Probably not, and it shouldn’t be, but the
Golden Grizzlies did just play Purdue down to the wire and put a scare in the
Boilermakers, which caused them to lose their number 1
ranking. Oakland is going to be overmatched against the
Cougars, but with the way they shoot threes, anything can happen.
Houston is a lot better defensively than Purdue, and they are not
going to let the Golden Grizzlies just roam around the three-point
line. If Houston doesn’t want you to score, you are not going to
score. This game is notable only because Oakland is clearly
capable of keeping this close for a while. Houston is too good
to keep Oakland in the game.
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