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NCAA Tournament Game Analysis: Second Round – Friday Evening

EJacoby — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:21:21 +0000

RTC Region correspondents Brian Otskey (East), Kevin Doyle (South), Evan Jacoby (Midwest) and Andrew Murawa (West) contributed to this preview.

#8 Memphis vs. #9 Saint Louis – West Region Second Round (at Columbus, OH) – 6:50 PM ET on TBS

Nice to See Rick Majerus Back in the Dance (AP)

It may be an 8/9 game, but according to advanced metrics, this is anything but your typical 8/9 game. Both teams are among the top 15 teams in the country according to Ken Pomeroy’s rankings, outscoring opponents by about 0.2 points per possession over the course of the season. Still, looking [...]

NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.14.12 Edition

Brian Goodman — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:04:00 +0000

The NCAA Tournament is here and there’s more news, commentary and analysis than any of us can possibly keep up with. To make things a little easier, we’ll bring you a list of daily links gathered about teams in each of the four regions all the way through the Final Four.

South

Where does Kentucky head coach John Calipari rank among the top coaches in the country without a title? As he continues to chase his white whale, will this finally be the year? Indiana freshman swingman Remy Abell has been a solid contributor to the Hoosiers’ success. The status of Duke junior forward [...]

Bracket Prep: St. Mary’s, Western Kentucky, Detroit, and South Dakota State

EJacoby — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:33:25 +0000

As we move through Championship Week (the second half of Championship Fortnight, of course), we’ll continue to bring you these short reviews of each of the automatic qualifiers to help you fill out your bracket next week. In this post, we’ve got the WCC, Summit, Horizon, and Sun Belt winners from the past two nights…

St. Mary’s

Matthew Dellavedova (And His Mouth Guard) Are Dangerous (AP/ Tony Avelar)

WCC Champion (27-5, 16-2) RPI/Pomeroy/Sagarin = #25/#43/#35 Adjusted Scoring Margin = +11.3 Likely NCAA Seed: #6-#8

Three Bruce Pearls of Wisdom.

St. Mary’s has been a nationally-recognized mid-major for a number of years now, but the Gaels program did something this [...]

Checking in on … the Horizon League

Deepak Jayanti — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:06:17 +0000

Deepak Jayanti is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League. Follow him on Twitter (@10thYearSeniors) for his thoughts on college basketball.

Reader’s Take

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Halfway Checkpoint

Don’t Bet On It: Parity has been a common term used to describe certain conference races such as the Big Ten, CAA or Pac-12 so far this season. Add the Horizon League to that list after the games this past weekend. Cleveland State and a surprising Valparaiso team sit on top of the standings at the halfway point of conference play. Fans of this league with a gambling itch might want to stay away because there [...]

Checking In On… the Horizon League

Brian Goodman — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:00:50 +0000

Bill Hupp is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League. Follow him on Twitter (@Bill_Hupp) for his thoughts on hoops, food, Russian nesting dolls and life.

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The Week That Was

Cream of the Crop Rises: It’s only mid-December, but don’t let the overall records fool you: The conference cream of the crop has already risen to the top. There is a clear division between the upper and lower halves of the Horizon League in 2011-12. Some teams (Milwaukee, Detroit, Butler, and Valparaiso) chose to test themselves before conference play begins. With Butler having a down season, a conference crown [...]

Set Your TiVo: 12.05.11

Brian Otskey — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:16:02 +0000

Brian Otskey is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference and a regular contributor. You can find him @botskey on Twitter. See bottom of the post for the Official RTC Star System.

This is a very light night of hoops but you may want to check out two games between bottom-tier Big East teams and a pair of Midwestern mid-majors.

St. John’s @ Detroit – 7:00 PM EST on ESPN2 (**)

Godsgift Achiuwa and Friends Have Faced a Tough Early Schedule

St. John’s has been in an early-season slide, having lost four [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #13 – Horizon League

Brian Goodman — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:30:34 +0000

Jimmy Lemke of PantherU.com is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League. You can find his daily ramblings @PantherU or @JimmyLeMKE on Twitter.

Reader’s Take I

Last season, the Horizon League put four teams in the postseason — can it do it again?

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Top Storylines

Eli Holman’s Leave of Absence: The Detroit big man is easily the best returning post player in the H-League, but whether or not he will return is a big question. Holman was placed on “indefinite leave” from the team at the end of September to handle some legal issues drawn from an incident at a fraternity house [...]

Morning Five: 09.28.11 Edition

nvr1983 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:15:30 +0000

On Monday we mentioned that the SEC would be looking for a 14th member to round out its new conference in the very near future. Yesterday, SEC commissioner Mike Silve came out and said they did not have any current plans to add a 14th team and did not have any other institutions currently under consideration to be the 14th team in the conference. We aren’t sure what to say about this other than to say we don’t believe it for a second unless Silve is trying to argue semantics. We can’t imagine that anybody actually believes that the SEC [...]

Detroit Center Eli Holman Out On Indefinite Leave Of Absence

nvr1983 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:23:34 +0000

Coming into this season Detroit was thought by many to be a potential mid-major sleeper. After a 17-16 record last season, the Titans were expected to be one of the top teams in the Horizon League. Led by Ray McCallum Jr., who averaged 13.5 PPG, 4.7 RPG, and 4.9 APG in a spectacular freshman campaign playing for his father Ray Sr., and Chase Simon, who also averaged 13.5 PPG last season, the Titans had one of the top backcourts in the country and they had an established inside presence in Eli Holman, who averaged 11.8 PPG (on 61% FG shooting) and [...]

RTC Summer Updates: Horizon League

Brian Goodman — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:00:20 +0000

With the completion of the NBA Draft and the annual coaching and transfer carousels nearing their ends, RTC is rolling out a new series, RTC Summer Updates, to give you a crash course on each Division I conference during the summer months. Our latest update comes courtesy of our Horizon League correspondent, Jimmy Lemke.

Reader’s Take

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Summer Storylines

End of an Era – Homer Drew may have done his best work in the Mid-Continent Conference (now Summit League), but that doesn’t bar the Horizon League [...]

Checking in on… the Horizon League

Brian Goodman — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:44:46 +0000

Jimmy Lemke is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League.

A Look Back

How They Fared: It was a week that had mixed results for the Horizon League. The torch-bearer for the conference, Butler, won a difficult MAAC road game by double-digits against Siena before dropping an overtime decision in Hinkle Fieldhouse against state foe Evansville. Detroit picked up three solid victories over Albany, Bowling Green and Niagara after dropping an early-week decision at Missisippi State. Milwaukee‘s upset bid over Marquette just failed at the end, with a missed front end of a one-and-one giving Marquette [...]

RTC 2010-11 Impact Players – Upper Midwest Region

rtmsf — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:55:07 +0000

For the second October in a row, we’re bringing you our RTC Impact Players series. The braintrust has gone back and forth on this and we’ve finally settled on a group of sixty players throughout ten geographic regions of the country (five starters plus a sixth man) to represent the who and where of players you should be watching this season. Seriously, if you haven’t seen every one of these players ball at least once by the end of February, then you need to figure out a way to get a better television package. As always in a subjective [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #13 – Horizon League

Brian Goodman — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:05:37 +0000

Jimmy Lemke is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League.

Predicted Order of Finish

Butler (15-3) Cleveland State (12-6) Detroit (12-6) Milwaukee (11-7) Valparaiso (9-9) Wright State (9-9) Green Bay (8-10) UIC (7-11) Loyola (5-13) Youngstown State (2-16)

All-Conference Team

G: Shelvin Mack, Butler G: Norris Cole, Cleveland State F: Cory Johnson, Valparaiso F: Matt Howard, Butler C: Eli Holman, Detroit

6th Man

G: Brandon Wood, Valparaiso

Impact Newcomer

Paul Carter (F), UIC

What does Brad Stevens and Butler have in mind for an encore after their run to the title game?

What You Need To Know

All Horizon League games and most non-conference home games will be streamed live at HorizonLeague.org, the conference’s [...]

Horizon League Tournament Preview

rtmsf — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:04:27 +0000

John Templon of Chicago College Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League.

The Horizon League finished its regular season on Saturday. The first round matchups for the tournament are all set. Of course the favorite to win the conference tournament is Butler. The Bulldogs went a perfect 18-0 in conference. The Bulldogs played without star forward Gordon Hayward – the assumed Horizon League Player of the Year – and still managed to defeat Valparaiso on the road on Friday. Butler will be playing at home and receives a double-bye into the semifinals. The team joining [...]

Checking in on… the Horizon League

rtmsf — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:19:14 +0000

John Templon of Chicago College Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League.

Standings

Butler 12-0 Wright State 8-4 Cleveland State 7-4 Green Bay 7-5 Detroit 7-5 Valparaiso 6-6 Milwaukee 5-6 Loyola (IL) 4-8 Youngstown State 2-10 UIC 1-11

Top Storylines

A difference of opinion: Butler might be the 18th team in the nation (according to the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll) or they might be the 23rd team (according to the AP poll), but the Bulldogs have really confused people this season. Pomeroy thinks they’re only 28th. The rest of the Horizon League schedule isn’t going to provide us with any answers either. Light Bracket Busters schedule: the Horizon League got [...]