Posts Tagged ‘Horizon League’

Cleveland State, the Notes From A Basketball Junkie pick to win the Horizon.

The Vikings, a team I barely knew when the season began, but came to know and love the way a dog owner might come love to a mutt that looks downright ugly to everyone else, emerged bloodied, but unbowed, beating Butler on the [...]

Even though Butler, barring a major meltdown by the selection committee, is already in the Big Dance, I get the sense they really want to win the Horizon League title on their homecourt, historic and eminently atmospheric Hinkle Fieldhouse. Yet, they just can’t shake Cleveland State.
The Bulldogs’ superlative forward Matt Howard just picked up [...]

Whenever I watch Cleveland State play hoop, I can’t think of a basketball analogy for the withering, grind you down way the Vikes hoop, but I can think of a boxing one. Cleveland State is the Julio Cesar Chavez of college basketball. Every game I’ve seen this season is like a hardwood equivalent [...]

How sweet it is!
After running through way too much of our college hoops betting bankroll thanks to a slew of ill-advised picks back in December and January, we took some time off from Pick of the Day. The time off served us well, as we were able to refine our top secret methodology — [...]

It’s opening night for conference tourneys across Mid-Majordom, with the Big South, Ohio Valley, and the Horizon League all starting tonight. Since this means that March Madness is officially under the way, we’ve decided that it’s time to dust off the mothballed Pick of the Day feature and try to win back what we’ve [...]

Blue II and Butler could play host to the Horizon League tourney
List of leagues — The Colonial Athletic Association, The Valley, Big Sky, and the MAC all spring to mind — were the conference tourney is going to be an absolute bloodbath. Most people know about 23rd-ranked Butler and some folk know about Cleveland [...]

Or maybe that’s the comeback kids. Either way, the Cavs aren’t the only hoops team folks in Clevo should be psyched about since Cleveland State’s come from behind 66-63 win over the Illinois-Chicago Flames is the Vikings second in a row following a three-game Horizon League losing streak, and has them positioned to build [...]

Cleveland State (10-4), vanquishers of Syracuse, has been one of the best Mid-Major sides so far this season (they’re ranked 8th in the latest Mid-Major Top 25), with their four losses coming to the likes of Butler, Kansas State, Washington, and West Virginia. Despite their 50-48 loss to Butler, Gary Waters’ squad has to [...]

Actually, I don’t think the Cleveland State Vikings (20-11) will pillage, maraud, or destroy the Valpo Crusaders (21-12) in their Horizon League semifinals scrap today but I couldn’t stay from that slug. However, I’m pretty certain that Clevo State, who have already beaten Valpo twice this season, will win to advance to the Horizon [...]