This Weeks HL Games (1/23-1/29)

[Wolf]

01/25/06 Butler @ Cleveland State
01/25/06 UIC @ Wright State
01/26/06 UW-Milwaukee @ Youngstown State
01/26/06 UW-Green Bay @ Loyola
01/28/06 Wright State @ Butler
01/28/06 UW-Green Bay @ UIC
01/28/06 Detroit @ Loyola
01/28/06 Youngstown State @ Cleveland State

[Wolf]

Standings:
UW-Milwaukee 7-1, 14-4
Wright State 4-2, 8-8
Cleveland State 4-3, 8-9
Detroit 4-4, 10-11
Loyola 3-4, 11-6
UW-Green Bay 3-4, 9-10
Youngstown State 3-4, 6-11
Butler 2-3, 9-8
UIC 1-6, 8-11

[Class of '83]

Non-conference Records:

Akron 13-3, 6-0 MAC
Northeastern 10-7, 6-3 CAA
Miami 9-6, 6-1 MAC
Northern Illinois 9-6, 4-3 MAC
Belmont 8-8, 6-3 A-Sun
Toledo 8-7, 1-6 MAC
Ball State 5-9, 1-5 MAC
Texas Pan Am 5-14

[Big D]

If you remove the Kenyon and Texas Pan America games, I was pretty happy with our schedule. I have never really understood why we travel all the way to Texas to play a home-away series with a crappy team. There are a ton of crappy mid-majors within driving distance that we could have scheduled instead.

[Class of '83]

Horizon League RPI:
Wisconsin Milwaukee 20
Loyola Chicago 121
Butler 122
Illinois Chicago 144
Wright St. 157
Wisconsin Green Bay 167
Cleveland St. 179
Detroit 187
Youngstown St. 300

www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=Horz

[Class of '83]

Horizon League SAGs:
45 Wis.-Milwaukee
88 Butler
118 Loyola-Chicago
162 Illinois-Chicago
166 Wright State
168 Detroit
187 Wis.-Green Bay
204 Cleveland State
236 Youngstown State

www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc0506.htm

[keithfromxenia]

boy that is an embarressing bunch or ratings numbers. GO RAIDERS!!!!!!

[Wolf]

keithfromxenia said:

boy that is an embarressing bunch or ratings numbers. GO RAIDERS!!!!!!

The Horizon League is ranked 14th in the RPI this year. That is up from 19th last year. I'm not embarrassed by that.

[Class of '83]

Horizon League Tournament Brackets:
graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/hori/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/trackabracket.pdf

[Big D]

Nice link. I like how they break down the remaining schedules. WSU might have the easiest remaining schedule. We are tied with Butler for the most remaining home games at 6. We also already played the hardest part of our conference schedule. Our remaining conference games are against mainly the weaker part of the league as indicated by the remaining opponents’ record to date chart below. Our remaining opponents only have a combined winning % of 0.441. We are tied with UWGB for the easiest remaining conference schedule.

Remaining Games:
1. UW-Milwaukee 8 (3 home, 5 away)
2. Wright State 10 (6 home, 4 away)
3. Cleveland State 9 (5 home, 4 away)
4. Detroit 8 (3 home, 5 away)
5. Youngstown State 9 (4 home, 5 away)
6. UW-Green Bay 9 (4 home, 5 away)
7. Loyola 9 (5 home, 4 away)
8. Butler 11 (6 home, 5 away)
9. UIC 9 (5 home, 4 away)

Remaining Opponents’ League Record to Date:
1. UW-Milwaukee 24-30 (.444)
2. Wright State 30-38 (.441)
3. Cleveland State 29-31 (.483)
4. Detroit 27-27 (.500)
5. Youngstown State 35-28 (.556)
6. UW-Green Bay 26-33 (.441)
7. Loyola 31-31 (.500)
8. Butler 40-37 (.519)
9. UIC 34-27 (.557)

[Raider Country]

WSU can control it's own destiny if they take care of business on the court.

[Raider fan]

Nice break down of the HL remaining games! If we can just hold serve at home it will put us at 10 wins in the HL and with the parity of the HL that might garner us a 3rd place finish and a first round bye.

With the exception of UWM all our other remaining home games we should be favored. Not that it assures us of a win but if we play at the top of our game we can win them. We are not good enough to over look ANY HL team.

Wednesday's game is a big one..........we can't afford a HOME loss to the team currently in the HL cellar.

[Wolf]

Kent St. 53
Miami (OH) 46 Final

Cent. Michigan 41
Ball St. 68 Final

Akron 63
Ohio 66 Final

[Wolf]

Toledo 67
Northern Illinois 66 Final

SMU 84
Texas Pan Am 54 Final

[Wolf]

Ill. Chicago 62
Wright St. 57 Final

Butler 55
Cleveland St. 51 Final