Upheaval was the name of the game on Thursday evening, with the teams sitting in first and third place in the Horizon League knocked off their perches. Whether that continues on the League ladder this weekend remains to be seen, but with just two games separating the teams in third and eighth, chaos is bubbling just under the surface.

The Detroit women’s basketball team walked into the Kress Events Center in Green Bay on Thursday night and handed the ninth-ranked Phoenix their first loss of the season as the Titans and Wright State, currently tied for second place, both gained a game on first place Green Bay in the conference standings.

 



INDIANAPOLIS – Wright State is the favorite to win the 2012 Horizon League Baseball Championship in balloting by the conference’s six head coaches.  The Raiders received 25 points and five first-place votes. 

INDIANAPOLIS -- The defending Horizon League Tournament champions, UIC has been voted the favorite to repeat, receiving six of nine first-place votes and 60 points in  voting of the League’s head coaches.

As the end of the Horizon League regular season draws closer, the intensity in each game increases exponentially. Milwaukee, Detroit and Valparaiso were able to capture key wins on Saturday, helping shuffle the League standings and gain tie-breaker advantages.

With byes, home games and future seeds on the line for the Horizon League Tournament, every game matters. And with six teams jumbled within two games of each other, the League standings have never been closer.

With 25 days left in the Horizon League regular season, three teams stand tied with 6-5 records in conference play. All three are in action on Thursday night, giving each one a chance to solidify positioning for the League Tournament.

The Horizon League men’s basketball standings had a three-way tie at the beginning of the day, and by the end of the night, three teams were knotted in the ladder once more after Butler, Valparaiso and UIC claimed victories.

The records didn’t lie on Thursday night in Horizon League women’s basketball as all four games saw the team with the better conference record pick up the victory.

It was a good weekend to be on the road if you were a Horizon League women’s basketball team. On Thursday, three of the four conference games were won the visiting team, and the trend continued on Saturday as road teams captured four of the five games. Overall, seven of the nine league games played this weekend were won by the visiting team.