The Day One festivities are over, and the Big South takes a day off to travel, and\u00a0a couple more tournaments start tomorrow, but for tonight, the Horizon League takes center stage with four opening round games.\u00a0 A truly fascinating year in the Horizon, as the league continues to get better and better and we can probably (finally) officially say that this league (and the MVC) have officially passed the Mid-American as the 2 best mid-majors in the Midwest.<\/p>\n
As of writing this, there are 15 Horizon submissions.\u00a0 Here are the championship picks:<\/p>\n
As for tonight’s games, no one is going for the really big upsets, as everyone has #3 Detroit<\/strong> and #4 UW-Milwaukee<\/strong> holding serve tonight.\u00a0 However, 4 people (Doogan, Gersh, J, and Teddy) like #8 Wright St.<\/strong> to beat #5 Butler<\/strong>, and the majority (9 people) have #7 Green Bay<\/strong> in the mild upset of #6 Youngstown St.<\/strong>\u00a0 Only Bry, Doogan, Rikey, RSmith, Teddy, and Waters have YSU.\u00a0 Obviously, the games tonight are very important for Gross, Lohse, and RSmith, who put their Horizon champion pick on the line tonight.<\/p>\n As for some Horizon history, this conference has required a perfect bracket to win it in each of the past two years.\u00a0 While the CTC has been around for well over a decade, the “recorded history” goes back four years.\u00a0 Waters won the first Horizon title on record in ’08.\u00a0 Bry took the ’09 title.\u00a0 And, then in each of the past two years, a perfect bracket was required for this title.\u00a0 Doogan and Teddy both ran the table in 2010, while Bry went 9-for-9 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Day One festivities are over, and the Big South takes a day off to travel, and\u00a0a couple more tournaments start tomorrow, but for tonight, the Horizon League takes center stage with four opening round games.\u00a0 A truly fascinating year … Continue reading