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.
Horizon tourney predicted champ: Green Bay (#5 seed) Dates: March 2-10 Location: Campus sites and Indianapolis, IN 2025 tourney champ: Robert Morris (#1 seed) Fun fact: 5 different champs in past 5 years Seeding: 7 of past 10 champs were not #1 seed I
do like Penn alumni so I am dying to select my fellow Quaker Andy
Toole, the head coach at Robert Morris (or as the folks at HoopsHD like
to call them: Morris Robert). However, this tourney seems to keep having
a new champ every March so I will go with another notable coach: Doug
Gottlieb and the Phoenix. It seems like he is in the news every other
week for all the wrong reasons, and his team’s defense leaves a LOT to
be desired (around 300th in the nation in adjusted defensive
efficiency), but that gets balanced out by having 4 starters who each
average double-digits. Their lineup is a little short with none of their
top-6 scorers standing taller than 6’6”, yet they only allow 31.2 RPG
(which is top-30 in the nation). The X-factor is their 3-PT shooting:
their top-3 shooters from 3-PT range (Marcus Hall/Preston
Ruedinger/Caden Wilkins) have each knocked down at least 44 shots from
behind the arc this season.
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