Ray Ray is ready for the Dance, and so are his Titans. A pretty fantastic Horizon season comes to a close, and Detroit is the champion. It was a really nice season in the Horizon, which is quickly becoming one of the top mid-major conferences in the country – maybe even challenging the MVC for mid-major supremacy in the Midwest. Even with Butler completely retooling (and they will be back with a vengeance next year and beyond), this league showed some real promise, going 7-8 teams deep.
Lohse completes a very impressive Horizon bracket, where he only missed one opening round game. Dave wins the “money” division over Bry with the win. J brings up the rear in the Horizon, finishing with just 18 points.
#3 Detroit 68 – #1 Valparaiso 50
The 18-point margin does not do this game justice, as it was a good, close game most of the way through. It was the Detroit stifling defense that got it done, and they are dancing. I would not want to be matched up with them next week. They have a star player who will not be intimidated by anyone at any level, they’re battle-tested through a tough Horizon in which they started slow, so they’ve been playing important games for several weeks now, they seem to have the ability to play at just about any tempo, and they seem to have that certain something that makes them dangerous. Dave, Gross, and Lohse all pick up the 60 points that goes along with this correct championship pick.
FINAL HORIZON STANDINGS:
- Lohse – 165 (’12)
- Dave – 147
- Gross – 123
- Waters – 111 (’08)
- Alexi – 105
- Mac – 87
- Scoot – 87
- Bry – 78 (’09/’11*)
- Primm – 78
- Stri – 66
- Rikey – 60
- Doogan – 54 (’10*)
- RDoc – 54
- RSmith – 54
- Gersh – 48
- Lynch – 42
- KA – 30
- Lil Lohse – 18
- Teddy – 18 (’10*)
- J – 12
