Tuori Sports Report

**Double Dribble is the new article series that will be produced each Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the duration of the College Basketball season. The TSR team (and occasionally guests), will give their opinion on the games that have taken place and the games that look ahead.   NICK Kansas State in Freefall The Wildcats were going to be bad this year, everyone knew that. But a thirteen point loss to Fort Hayes State in which they were dominated nearly the entire night?! I sure didn’t see that coming. It’s going to be a long year in Manhattan… Detroit Falls Back to Earth The Titans were extremely impressive last week in two narrow defeats against Michigan State and Notre Dame. I expected they would beat Kent State, on their home floor too, but the Titans lost by fourteen. Matt Johnson, who had played so well against Michigan State, struggled from the floor (2/8). Antoine Davis, the go-to player for the Titans, was held to only 21 points as he was 7/21 shooting. This team i...

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 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...