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The Western Illinois men’s basketball team tips off the season Tuesday night at Nebraska.The Leathernecks went 2-0 in their exhibition games but take a major step up in competition, taking on the Big 10’s Cornhuskers at 7 p.m.And while the hill will be a tough one to climb, getting back on the court and starting…
Yesterday the 1st team was posted, time for the 2nd team. First a reminder of the 1st team G KJ Hunt Denver G Issac McBride Oral Roberts G Trenton Massner Western Illinois F Courtney Brown St. Thomas F Akol Arop Omaha Reaching the Summit All-Newcomer 2nd team G Erik Oliver, South Dakota South Dakota…
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The transfer portal has become just as important in college basketball recruiting as coaches going to AAU tournaments. The Summit is no exception. Over the next 2 days, I am going to post the Reaching the Summit 1st and 2nd team All-Transfer teams and the next day the 1st team all Freshmen team. Frankly, there…
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Yesterday we posted the Summit All-Breakout 1st team so let’s refresh your memory of that team. G Bentiu Panoam, North Dakota G La’Mel Robinson, Omaha G Xavier Fuller, South Dakota F Grant Nelson, North Dakota State F Tasos Kamateros, South Dakota As a reminder in order to qualify the player needed to play in the…
We are going to spend the next week getting you ready for Summit League action, which kicks off as does the entire college basketball world. It seemed the best way to kick off preview week is to give you one player from each Summit League team that is worth watching and one player from each…
MACOMB — There was plenty to take away from Wednesday’s season-opening 92-80 exhibition victory over Illinois-Springfield for the Western Illinois men.The good: Will Carius and Luka Barisic can put the ball in the basket at a high rate.The duo combined for 53 of WIU’s 92 points.Also good, WIU was able to get in a much-needed…
In today’s college basketball world, a critical piece to building your team is signing transfers. The Summit League as a whole was not hit as hard by transfer losses as other conferences were. In fact 2 of the top contenders South Dakota State and North Dakota State were not hit with any major losses and…
The purpose of this article is really two-fold. 1. Catch up on what your favorite Summit League Alums have been doing recently in pro basketball, and then I will put together a list of the 10 players I would add to a Summit League TBT team. If you are unsure what the TBT is, it…
In their last game, South Dakota came out against North Dakota State and played inspired basketball for a half in their first game without AJ Plitzuweit. Then they fell behind and got buried by the Bison. This led a certain Reaching the Summit Writer to pick them to lose in the opening round to Western…
Player of the Year There are many deserving candidates for player of the year in the Summit League this year too. Nothing highlights this better than the fact that five players received votes for player of the year from our voters. These players included South Dakota’s Stanley Umude and AJ Plitzuweit, Oral Roberts’ Max Abmas…