Tuori Sports Report

The MTI Center scoreboard will feature "Broncos" in a week. The Western Michigan Broncos released their 2020-21 men's basketball non-conference schedule on Friday afternoon. They will play six non-league games, four away from University Arena. Perhaps the most intriguing game on their schedule is the November 28th road trip to Angola, Indiana. They will stop there to visit the Trine Thunder. How does this happen, that a Division I team travels to a member of the Division III's MIAA? Welcome to scheduling during COVID-19. Newly enacted restrictions in place by the MDHHS in regards to athletic competition during COVID-19 would not allow Trine to be eligible to travel to Kalamazoo to face the Broncos. This caused Western Michigan and Trine to get creative to make this game happen. For the first time in their history, the Broncos will hit the road to face a Division III opponent. "We originally planned to host Trine", Western Michigan Head Coach Clayton Bates to...

  The Pistons made noise before this draft even got started and it changed everything for them tonight. They went from having just one pick, to making four, three of which were in the first round.  I absolutely love the trade the Pistons made tonight before the draft with the Houston Rockets. Detroit received Trevor Ariza and the No. 16 pick tonight for a future pick. The pick we sent to Houston is heavily protected as it is a top-16 protected the next four years, top-10 the following two, and then top-9. After then, it becomes a second. So, for all that follow the Pistons, the Rockets basically just gave the pick away for a second because the Pistons will be in the lottery for years to come. On top of this, if anyone knows me, I am a huge Trevor Ariza fan. I know he was not the reason for this trade, but I am here for it. Who knows if he will ever even play for Detroit, but for now, this is something I love to see. Another trade that happened with Houston tonight was for 4....

The B1G has announced the complete conference schedule tonight.   Some quick thoughts on the newly released B1G basketball schedule: Christmas Day: I love that the B1G is playing games on Christmas Day. A quadruple-header of B1G hoops will surely be more thrilling than the typical NBA on Christmas Day. Wisconsin will travel to Michigan State as the headliner, but Iowa visits Minnesota, Michigan travels to Nebraska and Maryland visits Purdue. I hope that the B1G schedules these games in a way that are back-to-back-to-back-to-back so that we can watch all four while stuffing ourselves with Christmas treats. Also, I officially start the movement to have MSU and Wisconsin wear green and red respectively, to truly embody the Christmas spirit. Rivalry Endings: The Big Ten scheduled Indiana and Purdue, as well as Michigan State and Michigan, for those team's final games. I wish that they would do this every year, and even more so they should extend it to all 14 teams. Minnesota/Wisco...