Good Monday Follows Great Weekend in HL
Perspectives Bill Benner · November 14, 2011
Here at the Horizon League, we like to think most weekends of competition are good weekends of competition.
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Entries by Bill Benner
Horizon League Announces Cost of Attendance Policy
Release Bill Benner · November 7, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS -- Horizon League athletic directors have unanimously approved a change in League operating regulations that clarify the implementation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association decision to add a $2,000 cost of attendance allowance to athletic grants-in-aid.
Tags: All Teams - All Sports
A Random Act of Sportsmanship
Perspectives Bill Benner · November 1, 2011
At the Horizon League, we spend a great deal of time talking about -- and promoting -- our values.
Tags: Wright State - All Sports
Horizon League Announces 2011-12 Men's Basketball TV Schedule
Release Bill Benner · September 6, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS -- An ESPN Super Bowl Saturday matchup between defending national champion runner-up Butler and possible preseason favorite Detroit highlights a 35-game Horizon League men’s basketball television schedule, the League announced Tuesday.
Tags: All Teams - Men's Basketball · Horizon League - Men's Basketball
Perspectives: What Does Miami Have To Do With the Horizon League?
Perspectives Bill Benner · August 18, 2011
What does the exploding scandal surrounding the University of Miami football program have to do with the Horizon League?
Tags: Horizon League - All Sports
Perspectives: Behind the Curtain
Perspectives Bill Benner · July 11, 2011
I’m now one year -- plus very small change -- into my job here at the Horizon League.
What a year it has been.
When asked my favorite part, the answer is easy, and no, it wasn’t Butler’s trip to a second national championship game (though that was incredible).
It’s the student-athletes.
Tags: Horizon League - All Sports
Perspectives: Torch Passed at Valparaiso
Perspectives Bill Benner · May 19, 2011
VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Valparaiso University president Mark Heckler summed it up perfectly on Tuesday, May 17th, when he proclaimed a day “both bittersweet and celebratory” on the northwest Indiana campus.
Tags: Valparaiso - Men's Basketball
20 Horizon League Teams Honored in NCAA APR
Release Bill Benner · May 17, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS -- Twenty Horizon League teams from the 2009-2010 academic year were honored Tuesday by the NCAA for achieving multi-year academic performance rates (APR) in the top 10 percent of their NCAA Division I peers.
Tags: Butler - Golf · Butler - Men's Basketball · Butler - Tennis · Butler - Women's Basketball · Cleveland State - Cross Country · Detroit - Golf · Green Bay - Women's Basketball · Loyola - Cross Country · Loyola - Golf · Loyola - Men's Soccer · Loyola - Track and Field · Loyola - Women's Basketball · Loyola - Women's Soccer · Valparaiso - Baseball · Valparaiso - Softball · Valparaiso - Tennis · Valparaiso - Volleyball · Wright State - Tennis
Butler Falls Short in National Championship, 53-41
Release Bill Benner · April 4, 2011
HOUSTON -- Normally when you hold an opponent to 53 points and 34.5 percent shooting, you would think you would be in good shape to win.
Tags: Butler - Men's Basketball · Horizon League - Men's Basketball
Bulldogs After First National Title Monday Night
Release Bill Benner · April 3, 2011
HOUSTON -- There’s a line in the movie Hoosiers when, in the moments before taking the floor to play in the state championship game, the character of Merle Webb tells is Hickory High teammates, “Let's win this game for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here.”
Tags: Butler - Men's Basketball · Horizon League - Men's Basketball
