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Post by Jazzfan on Sept 10, 2009 19:24:03 GMT -5
Athlon Sports Horizon League predictions:
1.) Butler
2.) Wright State
3.) Milwaukee
4.) Cleveland State
5.) Green Bay
6.) Valpo
7.) Youngstown State
8.) UIC
9.) Loyola
10.) Detroit
All-Horizon League First Team:
Tone Boyle
Vaughn Duggins
Rahmon Fletcher
Gordon Hayward (Player of the Year)
Matt Howard
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Post by Nutt House on Sept 11, 2009 21:34:23 GMT -5
Todd Brown is better than Boyle or Fletcher.
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Post by OG Raiderfan on Sept 11, 2009 22:38:43 GMT -5
Todd will be there at the end of the season if we have the type of year we all are hoping for.
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Post by Raider4Life on Sept 12, 2009 8:40:58 GMT -5
I can't see Detroit finishing in 10th place. They had a really good recruiting class.
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Post by Raider Grad on Sept 13, 2009 21:39:07 GMT -5
Athlon always rushes to get their preseason predictions out first. As a result, it isn't very good or accurate.
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Post by Jazzfan on Sept 14, 2009 20:49:26 GMT -5
Lindy's predictions:
1, Butler
2, Wright State
3, Milwaukee
4, Cleveland State
5, UIC
6, Green Bay
7, Loyola
8, Valparaiso
9, Youngstown State
10, Detroit
All-Horizon League
First team
Vaughn Duggins, Wright State
Norris Cole, Cleveland State
Troy Cotton, Green Bay
Matt Howard, Butler
Gordon Hayward, Butler (POY)
Second team
Todd Brown, Wright State
Tone Boyle, Milwaukee
James Eayrs, Milwaukee
Robo Kreps, UIC
Thomas Kennedy, Detroit
Newcomer of the Year: Milos Milosevic, Valpo
Best shooter: Troy Cotton, Green Bay
Best rebounder: Matt Howard, Butler
Best playmaker: Spencer Stewart, UIC
Best defender: Vaughn Duggins, Wright State
Most versatile: Gordon Hayward, Butler
Best NBA prospect: Gordon Hayward, Butler
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Post by motowntitan on Sept 15, 2009 8:08:38 GMT -5
The UWM board is reporting that the Lindy's picks are from Marc Katz. If so, does he even follow the league outside of you guys? To each his own on the picks, but almost one person on each Horizon board is expecting Detroit to finish closer to the middle of the pack. UIC loses all those guys and he still thinks thinks they are 5th? Well no one had CSU and Butler finishing where they did either I guess  |
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Post by Raider Grad on Sept 15, 2009 19:06:58 GMT -5
The UWM board is reporting that the Lindy's picks are from Marc Katz. If so, does he even follow the league outside of you guys? To each his own on the picks, but almost one person on each Horizon board is expecting Detroit to finish closer to the middle of the pack. UIC loses all those guys and he still thinks thinks they are 5th? Katz wrote the preview and he does attend all of WSU's home/away games, so he is familiar with the league. My guess is that he wrote that preview a month ago before UIC announced the loss of all of those players. These preseason rags always suck. Blue Ribbon is the only one that does any real research. |
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Post by thatbaldraiderfan on Sept 15, 2009 21:09:41 GMT -5
Dayton 17th? HA
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Post by Jazzfan on Sept 15, 2009 22:03:21 GMT -5
Dayton should be in the top 25 this year. They return there whole team that went to the second round of the NCAA tournament last year and add 2 impact players in Benson who red shirted last season and Kavanough. They will be a tough team come NCAA tournament time.
With any luck, we will get a chance to play them in March.
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Post by wolf41 on Sept 16, 2009 8:03:10 GMT -5
I agree. Having UD ranked in the top 25 to start the year is reasonable. I'll be curious to see where we start the season, especially when compared with Wash, Portland, and Belmont. Washington is a top 20 team right now. That's a real plum for us to open against them. Portland may be ranked ahead of us as well, with Belmont ranked close to us, but lower. What a great way to start the season. Having Miss. State ranked in the top 25, as well as Butler, is also great. Both the men and the women have very solid schedules.
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Post by thatbaldraiderfan on Sept 16, 2009 11:37:28 GMT -5
Maybe they crack it if they win their mid season tournament... but not in a preseason poll.. especially 17th.... there's much better teams in the the nation than UD...
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Post by nybuckeye on Sept 16, 2009 12:23:19 GMT -5
there's much better teams in the the nation than UD... Lindy's would agree that there are 16 such teams |
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Post by Jazzfan on Sept 20, 2009 8:23:09 GMT -5
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Post by Raider Alumni on Oct 1, 2009 9:44:31 GMT -5
Ranking nice, but doesn’t mean muchBy Marc Katz October 1, 2009 FAIRBORN — Wright State men’s basketball coach Brad Brownell was just off the court following a couple individual workouts this week when he was asked about his team’s ranking by Rivals.com as the No. 71 team in the country. That’s a nice spot for a mid-major team, by the way, as it puts the Raiders on the bubble as an NCAA tournament team. “I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to that,” Brownell said. “Most of those predictions are wrong, anyway, and by a lot. “But anytime you get mentioned for something positive, it speaks well of your program.” Rivals.com is slowly making its way through the rankings, and is just up to No. 36 (Vanderbilt) today. It has yet to name where it has placed Butler, the No. 1 team in Wright State’s Horizon League, but be certain the Bulldogs will be in the top 20. After that, Rivals somehow jumped the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ahead of the Raiders, ranking the Panthers No. 63. After that in the Horizon League, Cleveland State comes in at 143, Wisconsin-Green Bay at 150, Illinois-Chicago at 179, Youngstown State at 198, Detroit at 251, Loyola 258 and Valparaiso at 276. As Brownell says, that may be something to talk about, but official practice doesn’t begin for two more weeks, so this is just speculation. Brownell continues to work with his team in smaller groups, although he could bring the whole squad in to work together. Until Oct. 16, when real team practice begins, coaches are allowed to work out their players only two hours a week. Brownell said he might bring the entire team in next week for a couple of hour-long workouts, but he hasn’t made up his mind. Anyway, after three straight 20-win seasons, the Raiders are starting the season in the minds of many as a top 100 team instead of hoping to end up there. www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/wrightstatesports/entries/2009/10/01/ranking_nice_but_doesnt_mean_m.html
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