Primarily a collection of news links about all 12 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.
Detroit Mercy (0-3, 232 KP) at Louisville (2-1, 49 KP) (Baha Mar Bahamas Championship), 2 p.m. (ACCNX/ESPN+ ($)) Last
night, Maryland struggled to defeat Hofstra in its Baha Mar on-campus
game, so the Cardinals will want to be wary of the Titans.
UIC (2-1, 254 KP) at Loyola Chicago (3-0, 31 KP), 4 p.m. (ESPN+ ($)) My neighbors, the Flames, travel to my old neighborhood for a potential meeting of Missouri Valley ships passing in the night.
-OAKLAND AT ALABAMA. Oakland is probably swinging way over their
heads, but they do have a notable win at Oklahoma State already, and if
they can somehow pull this off then you have to start thinking of them
as a tournament caliber team. Having said that, Alabama has played some
pretty good UTR teams already, so props to them for scheduling them.
They’ve also looked rather impressive against most of them.
UNCG (SoCon, 4-0, 180 KP) vs. UMass (A 10, 2-2, 112 KP), 3 p.m. (CBSSN) Weber State (Big Sky, 3-0, 101 KP) vs. Ball State (MAC, 1-2, 284 KP), approx. 5:30 p.m. (CBSSN) FIU (C-USA, 2-1, 294 KP) vs. Green Bay (Horizon, 0-3, 308 KP), approx. 8 p.m. (Pluto.tv)
In the first day of action at Eckerd College, UNCG
remained perfect and Green Bay winless after the Spartans’ 60-58 win in
the opener.
Other Games of Note
Oakland (2-1, 150 KP) at Alabama (3-0, 20 KP), 8 p.m. (SECN+/ESPN+ ($)) The Golden Grizzlies will challenge for the Horizon title, but that won’t mean much against the Crimson Tide.
Milwaukee (1-1, 124 KP) at Florida (2-0, 23 KP), 6 p.m. (SECN+/ESPN+ ($)) Patrick
Baldwin and the Panthers travel to Gainesville for a Fort Myers Tip-Off
on-campus contest. While the Gators handled FSU in surprising fashion
on Sunday, Milwaukee dropped its last game, against Eastern Kentucky at
home, on Saturday.
Milwaukee at Florida (-14.5), 6 p.m., ESPN+. The
Gators’ hard-to-shake reputation for softness may get shook this season,
if Sunday’s 16-point pasting of Florida State is any indication. Mike
White has imported some hard-playing transfers in 6-3 senior point guard
Myreon Jones (Penn State), 6-3 senior Brandon McKissic (UMKC) and 6-5 senior Phlandrous Fleming (Charleston Southern). And 6-11 senior forward Colin Castleton,
who had 15 points, 16 rebounds and six blocks against the Seminoles,
appears headed for an SEC player of the year caliber season. The
Panthers’ heralded 6-9 freshman forward Patrick Baldwin Jr. has averaged
20 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists the first two games, but
Milwaukee still lost to Eastern Kentucky at home by six on Saturday. The
only way they pull off this upset is if the Gators have a letdown, but I
don’t foresee that happening. The pick: 10 on Florida.
-TOLEDO AT OAKLAND. We will highlight this one because Toledo is
unbeaten (albeit untested) and Oakland is 1-1 with a win at Oklahoma
State, so while neither of them may be inside the bubble come March, at
Present they are both off to a good start, so we’ll keep highlighting
them until they give us a reason not to.
-Oakland blew out Toledo last night. I’m not ready to say that
Oakland is clearly an NCAA Tournament at-large caliber team, but I am
definitely going to say that we should be watching them right now.
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