MEN’S BASKETBALL 2020-21 NOTEBOOK (JAN. 6-12) Contact: Dan Gliot | [email protected] | 317-237-5606 (O) | 440-773-2770 (C) STANDINGS | AS OF JAN. 5 Horizon League Overall Record Team Conf. Pct. PF PA All Pct. PF PA H A N Stk Cleveland State 6-0 1.000 74.0 65.8 6-3 0.667 68.0 70.3 2-0 4-3 0-0 W6 UIC 2-0 1.000 82.0 72.5 5-2 0.714 71.6 67.6 4-1 1-1 0-0 W2 Wright State 5-1 0.833 82.7 67.3 7-2 0.778 79.6 66.4 3-1 4-1 0-0 L1 Northern Kentucky 3-1 0.750 71.0 67.5 5-4 0.556 70.8 71.7 5-1 0-3 0-0 W2 RMU 2-1 0.667 83.7 79.7 3-3 0.500 77.0 77.7 2-1 1-2 0-0 W1 Milwaukee 2-1 0.667 68.7 64.7 3-2 0.600 70.4 66.6 0-0 3-2 0-0 L1 Oakland 3-3 0.500 72.8 80.0 3-10 0.231 67.9 84.8 1-1 2-7 0-2 W1 Youngstown State 2-4 0.333 71.7 77.2 6-4 0.600 73.4 71.8 4-1 2-3 0-0 W1 Purdue Fort Wayne 1-5 0.167 75.3 80.2 2-5 0.286 74.1 77.7 2-3 0-2 0-0 L2 Green Bay 1-5 0.167 68.8 75.3 1-9 0.100 68.3 80.8 0-3 1-6 0-0 W1 IUPUI 0-2 0.000 55-5 62.0 1-2 0.333 60.0 63.3 1-2 0-0 0-0 L2 Detroit Mercy 0-4 0.000 74.3 84.5 1-7 0.125 72.0 79.5 0-5 1-2 0-0 L4 ON THE HORIZON (all times ET) Date Game Time Network Jan. 8 RMU at IUPUI 12 p.m. ESPN3 Detroit Mercy at Milwaukee 12 p.m. ESPN3 Oakland at Green Bay 5 p.m. ESPN+ MARCH 8-9 | INDIANA FARMERS COLISEUM UIC at Purdue Fort Wayne 7 p.m. ESPN3 Youngstown State at Wright State 7 p.m. ESPN2 Northern Kentucky at Cleveland State 7 p.m. ESPN+ Jan. 9 RMU at IUPUI 12 p.m. ESPN3 Detroit Mercy at Milwaukee 12 p.m. ESPN3 Youngstown State at Wright State 3 p.m. ESPN3 Oakland at Green Bay 5 p.m. ESPN+ UIC at Purdue Fort Wayne 5 p.m. ESPN3 Northern Kentucky at Cleveland State 7 p.m. ESPN+ 61 DAYS UNTIL #HLMBB NEWS & NOTES #REACHtheHORIZON • Wright State looks to bounce back on national television after suffering its first loss of the season last week on the road. WSU ranks No. 16 in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Poll thanks to leading the HL in scoring at nearly 80 points a contest as five players are averaging in double figures. RECENT RESULTS • Youngstown State’s Naz Bohannon has been dominant this season for the Penguins as he is second in scoring Friday, Jan. 1 at 18.0 points per game, second in field-goal percentage at 57.1 percent and fifth I rebounding at 8.4 boards per contest. Last week, Bohannon posted a career-high 32 points and added 12 rebounds in a win over Green Bay. Youngstown State 84, Green Bay 77 • The key to the WSU-YSU series will be rebounding as the Raiders rank fifth in the country in defensive rebounds RMU 67, Milwaukee 64 per game at 32.2, while the Penguins are one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the nation, ranking fifth in the NCAA with 15.6 boards. Northern Kentucky 75, Purdue Fort Wayne 68 • Cleveland State is off to its best start in HL play since the 2007-08 season and is getting it done on both ends of the floor. The Vikings are second during Horizon League play in field-goal percentage, while defensively they are Wright State 90, Oakland 51 third in scoring and second in steals. Cleveland State 65, IUPUI 62 • The Horizon League has some of the top passers in the NCAA as three HL players rank in the top-25 in assists led by UIC’s Teyvion Kirk who is second in the country with 8.9 followed by Oakland’s Jalen Moore ranking 15th Saturday, Jan. 2 with 6.8 and Te’Jon Lucas of Milwaukee coming in 24th with 6.0. Green Bay 79, Youngstown State 69 • #HLMBB boasts three of the top rebounders in the country led by IUPUI’s Elyjah Goss who is second in the nation with 12.7 boards per game. WSU’s Loudon Love is sixth in the country with 11.6 rebounds and Northern Cleveland State 59, IUPUI 49 Kentucky’s Adrian Nelson is 13th at 10.8 and is also sixth in the nation averaging 4.4 offensive boards per contest. Oakland 81, Wright State 71 • Northern Kentucky earned a weekend sweep last weekend and improved to 3-1 during HL play. Freshman Marques Warrick led the way with back-to-back 22-point efforts including laying in the game-winner on Saturday Northern Kentucky 70, Purdue Fort Wayne 68 with just two second remaining in regulation. He leads all freshman in scoring in HL play with 17.3 and is top-10 I field goal percentage at 54.9 percent. Monday, Jan. 4 • Green Bay earned its first #HLMBB win of the season last week on the road as PJ Pipes finished the game with 30 points, just the fourth 30-point effort during League play this season, on 6-of-7 shooting from long range and went a Youngstown State 109, Carlow 56 perfect 10-for-10 from the free-throw line. The win also marked the first victory for new head coach Will Ryan. • RMU’s AJ Bramah continues to lead the Horizon League in scoring as the senior is averaging 23.7 points with 20-point performances in all three games played and he is also grabbing 10.0 rebounds per game. • After suffering a 90-51 loss to start the weekend, the Golden Grizzlies bounced back in a big way the next day by handing Wright State its first loss of the Horizon season 81-71 as Jalen Moore scored 24 points and added 12 LEAGUE STATISTICS assists. Moore is now second during HL play with 8.3 assists, thanks to three 10-plus assist performances and ninth in scoring at 17.3. For updated stats, visit HorizonLeague.com. HORIZONLEAGUE.com | #HLMBB | #REACHtheHORIZON | @HORIZONLEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2020-21 NOTEBOOK (JAN. 6-12) Contact: Dan Gliot | [email protected] | 317-237-5606 (O) | 440-773-2770 (C) PLAYER OF THE WEEK FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK Naz Bohannon | Youngstown State Marques Warrick | Northern Kentucky Bohannon averaged 27.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per Warrick picks up his third #HLMBB Freshman of the game while shooting 71.9 percent (23-for-32) from Week honor of the season after producing back-to- the floor last week. He scored a career-high 32 points back 22-point outings to lead the Norse to a two-game and posted his second double-double of the season sweep of Purdue Fort Wayne. Warrick started the with 12 rebounds in YSU’s 84-77 win over Green Bay. week pouring in a new career-high 22 points on 8-of- He went 12-for-15 from the field and made eight free 14 shooting and added four boards in game one, as throws. Bohannon followed up in the second game of the Norse beat the Mastodons, 75-68. For an encore, the weekend with 23 points on 11-of-17 shooting and he posted his second 22-point outing of the weekend, grabbed seven rebounds against the Phoenix. For the hitting the game-winning shot with just over two- season, Bohannon is second in the Horizon League seconds remaining to finish 10-of-17 from the floor. For averaging 18 points per game, second in field-goal the week, Warrick made 58 percent (18-of-31) of his percentage at 57.1 and fifth in rebounds with 8.4 per field-goal attempts, but was deadly from inside the arc contest. making 14-of-19 (74 percent) two-point attempts. 2020-21 HORIZON LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Nov. 30 - RayQuawndis Mitchell, UIC Nov. 30 - Marques Warrick, Northern Kentucky Dec. 7 - Rashad Williams, Oakland Dec. 7 - Marques Warrick, Northern Kentucky Dec. 14 - Rashad Williams, Oakland & Loudon Love, Wright State Dec. 14 - David Böhm, Northern Kentucky Dec. 21 - D’Moi Hodge, Cleveland State Dec. 21 - Trey Townsend, Oakland Dec. 28 - Tanner Holden, Wright State Dec. 28 - Micah Parrish, Oakland Jan. 4 - Naz Bohannon, Youngstown State Jan. 4 - Marques Warrick, Northern Kentucky Jan. 11 - Jan. 11 - Jan. 18 - Jan. 18 - Jan. 25 - Jan. 25 - Feb. 1 - Feb. 1 - Feb. 8 - Feb. 8 - Feb. 15 - Feb. 15 - Feb. 22 - Feb. 22 - HORIZONLEAGUE.com | #HLMBB | #REACHtheHORIZON | @HORIZONLEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2020-21 NOTEBOOK (JAN. 6-12) Contact: Dan Gliot | [email protected] | 317-237-5606 (O) | 440-773-2770 (C) NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S BASKETBALL POLLS MID-MAJOR TOP 25CLEVELAND STATEASSOCIATED VIKINGS PRESS USADETROIT TODAY MERCY COACHES TROJANS Preferred Reference: Detroit Mercy W-L PTS PRV W-L PTS PRV W-L PTS PRV 1. 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