Four non-Division I transfers to keep an eye on in the Horizon League--Mid-Major Madness
Cleveland State Men's Basketball Inks Owen Bronston--csuvikings.com
Macer, Balzer Join Vikings’ Staff--HoriZone Roundtable
Cleveland State Men's Basketball Inks Owen Bronston--HoriZone Roundtable
Titans Secure A Pair Of Transfer Forwards In Favor, Semerych--detroittitans.com
Detroit Mercy Women’s Basketball Adds Transfer Paula Lopez--detroittitans.com
Bart Lundy, staff embraced turmoil, rebuilt UW-Milwaukee’s roster in a month--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wednesday's College Notebook: Indiana Tech softball survives, baseball eliminated, more--Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Mastodons add transfer
Purdue Fort Wayne basketball bolstered its roster for the upcoming season with the addition of a junior college star: Guard DeAndre Lewis from East Mississippi Community College.
The 6-foot-5 Lewis played two seasons at EMCC and was all-conference in both campaigns. This past season, he averaged 16.1 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.2 steals while shooting 47.9% from the field and 40.9% from 3-point range on more than four attempts per game.
The Canton, Mississippi, native scored at least 19 points in each of his final five games and had 27 points of his team’s 71 points in a Jan. 27 game that also saw him pull down 11 rebounds.
Lewis helps a significant need after the Mastodons lost playmaking guards Corey Hadnot II to Houston and Mikale Stevenson to exhaustion of eligibility. He will have at least two seasons of eligibility.
PFW has added four transfers this offseason, all of whom began their careers as standouts at lower levels of the sport: Division II, NAIA and two from JUCO.
PFW women hire assistants
New PFW women’s basketball coach Kate Peterson Abiad has begun to fill out her staff with the hiring of Kevin McManaman and Rachel McLimore as assistants.
McManaman was most recently an assistant at Division II Roosevelt in Chicago and has coached at all levels of college basketball over a career that spans more than three decades.
He spent substantial time in Division I at Marquette, Illinois-Chicago (his longest stint, from 2002 to 2009), Northern Illinois and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
McManaman was an assistant under Abiad at Cleveland State in her final two years running the Vikings from 2016 to 2018. In the latter season there, he helped CSU win 19 games and finish fourth in the Horizon League standings. Vikings star Ashanti Abshaw led the conference with 2.7 steals per game that season.
More recently, McManaman was named Junior College Assistant Coach of the Year in 2023 for his work at Morton College in Cicero, Illinois.
McLimore was a star player in the Horizon League in the very recent past, earning all-league honors three times and all-defense recognition twice at what is now known as IU Indy from 2020 to 2022. The Jaguars won the HL regular-season title all three seasons she was on campus and went to the NCAA Tournament in 2022. She then followed IU Indy coach Austin Parkinson to Butler and started there in her final season of college basketball in 2022-23.
As a coach, the Zionsville native has spent three seasons on staff at NAIA Taylor in the Crossroads League.
Wright State Men’s Basketball Signs Landon Northrop--wsuraiders.com
Wright State Women’s Basketball Adds Jayden Terry--wsuraiders.com
