CHICAGO - Somebody's going to have a happy new year. And somebody isn't. “Loyola is playing well and feeling good about themselves,” Wright State coach Brad Brownell said about this afternoon's showdown at the Gentile Center.

For those who complain about how little the media and coaches know when they choose their preseason basketball polls, compare that to how a computer picks the upcoming Horizon League basketball season.

Jacob Pullen and Curtis Kelly sparked a take-charge run in the first half to lead No. 12 Kansas State past Cleveland State 85-56 on Tuesday night.

CHICAGO- A balanced game by Robo Kreps paced the UIC men's basketball team to a 66-52 win over visiting Toledo at the UIC Pavilion on Tuesday night.

UWGBs leading scorer, guard Rahmon Fletcher, has reinjured his left knee and wont play in Thursdays first-place showdown at Butler.

On Monday, Loyola had a chance to clear a bar nearly a half-century old. The problem was a springboard as bouncy as an equally aged mattress: a sparsely populated, generally sedated Gentile Center and an NAIA opponent that was basically a 14-man Ambien pill.

If a cornfield leads to a basketball court the way it does in the movies for baseball, Wright State senior guard John David Gardner stepped out of one Monday, Dec. 28, at the Nutter Center.

FAIRBORN - N'Gai Evans started for the first time in five games and John David Gardner played for the first time this season, a confluence of point guards that ruined formerly high-scoring Sam Houston State on Monday, Dec.

Wright State set a school record with 15 three-pointers, 10 in the second half, Monday night as the Raiders crushed Sam Houston State 88-48 at the Nutter Center.

Loyola University Chicago (10-2) held visiting St. Francis (Ill.) (3-12) without a field goal for over 11 minutes in the second half en route to a 63-46 victory tonight at the Gentile Center. With the win, their sixth straight, the Ramblers are off to the best start since the 1965-66 team opened the year with a 16-1 record.