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Cleveland State and Horizon League women's basketball for @horizoneroundtable.com. 2025 Cleveland Scene Best of Cleveland Finalist. USBWA member.
After 35 years of coaching, most of it spent leading a program, Steve Lanpher left a great situation at Division III Randolph College to join Chris Kielsmeier's staff in July. Why? The alignment was simply too good to pass up. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/11/14/l...
Lanpher Proving Two Heads Are Better Than One
It’s not physically possible to see and do everything, but new Cleveland State assistant coach Steve Lanpher has come awfully close, at least in college basketball terms. He’s been a Division I hea…
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November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Tom Mertz did what he does best on Wednesday: provide big moments against Robert Morris. As a result, Cleveland State men's soccer is headed to its third HL final in the last five years. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/11/13/c...
CSU Men’s Soccer Upends Robert Morris in HL Semifinal
Something about playing Robert Morris brings big moments out of Cleveland State midfielder Tom Mertz. Back on October 11th, his goal with one second remaining salvaged a 1-1 draw with the Colonials…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Cleveland State returned home from the west coast and found a soft landing in the form of Division II squad Pitt-Johnstown. Here are five things that stood out from a blowout win. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/11/13/c...
Cleveland State Batters Pitt-Johnstown: Five Observations
In one of those feel-good “everyone plays and everyone contributes” outings that happen once or twice per season, Cleveland State returned to the Wolstein Center on Wednesday night to d…
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November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The magic of airports lies in their near-limitless destinations and the near-limitless work involved with getting people to them. The same is true of college basketball seasons. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/11/11/d...
Departures and Arrivals
Whenever I fly somewhere, I always take a moment to examine the giant “departures” board, that airport staple doing its honest best to document every outbound flight on gigantic LED screens. The co…
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November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Given that Cleveland State committed 32 turnovers and allowed 37 Fullerton free throw attempts, the Vikings probably shouldn't have won on Sunday. Yet CSU did, improving to 2-0, and here's what stood out. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/11/09/c...
Cleveland State Rallies to Stun Fullerton: Five Observations
In a contest that largely defies clean explanation, Cleveland State overcame a slow start, a resulting 12-point second-quarter deficit, Colbi Maples’ severe foul trouble, and a staggering 32 turnov…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Cleveland State's new-look roster passed its first test of the season, downing Chicago State at the Wolstein Center last night. Here's what stood out about the effort. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/11/04/v...
Vikings Down Chicago State in Opener: Five Observations
In Cleveland State’s much-anticipated opening night with a largely-rebuilt roster, the Vikings clocked a dominant 71-49 win over Chicago State on Monday to begin the 2025-26 season on a positive no…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Cleveland State men's soccer - the newly-crowned HL regular-season champion - is still playing important matches in miserable weather. But that's exactly how coach Sinisa Ubiparipovic knows the team is where it needs to be. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/11/03/a...
As the Weather Changes, Cleveland State Men’s Soccer Stays on Course
College soccer season begins in the sweltering heat of August, when water breaks are often required, and Krenzler Field spectators struggle to focus on matches with the relentless sun looming a sti…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
With the season premiere of Cleveland State's women's basketball radio show on Monday, I figured it was a good time to also bring back the notebook posts that typically feature the show's highlights and select other items. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/10/28/v...
Vikings Notebook (October 28th)
Cleveland Rocks Whether it began with the Hough riots, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire – the most notorious of several similar incidents – or, more broadly, its place as an avatar for Rust Belt decay …
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October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Uzman Ramees' first career goal - scored just 47 seconds after the freshman entered Saturday night's match - helped Cleveland State men's soccer extend its unbeaten streak to 11 with a dominant win over Purdue Fort Wayne. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/10/26/a...
‘A Little Magic’ Helps CSU Men’s Soccer Continue Unbeaten Streak
Cleveland State’s men’s soccer team is now 6-2-6 overall and alone in first place in the Horizon League, with a 4-0-3 conference mark. The Vikings also carry an active 11-game unbeaten streak, with…
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October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Negotiations are underway to redevelop the Wolstein Center into a soccer stadium for a new USL franchise. Here's a look at how we got here - and what it might mean going forward. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/10/19/l...
Long-Time Quest to Replace Wolstein Center Accelerates
Back in August, Cleveland State’s board of trustees voted to begin negotiations to re-develop the Wolstein Center into a 15,000-seat soccer stadium. What does that mean for Vikings basketball…
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October 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When Detroit Mercy coach Kate Achter left for WMU in the spring, the Titans' program could have disintegrated like so many others. Instead, the school moved quickly to retain its hard-won progress, with the hope to take things even further this season. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/10/16/h...
How Detroit Mercy Beat the Odds to Run it Back
Kiefer Haffey is a Southeast Michigan lifer who understands how fortunate he is to be the new head coach at Detroit Mercy. “There are not a lot of opportunities where you get to be a Division I hea…
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October 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
In just her second season at the helm of Robert Morris, Chandler McCabe has transformed the Colonials from a downtrodden team with no true geographic tether into an HL championship contender with a decidedly Pittsburgh flavor. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/10/11/h...
How Robert Morris Developed a Pittsburgh Accent
Though she’s only 35 years old, Chandler McCabe has already seen a lot of places and done a lot of things. Originally from Orlando, the Robert Morris head coach won a state championship at Bishop M…
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October 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Even with some critical departures, Cleveland State looks to remain in the same place it's been during the Chris Kielsmeier era: Near the top of the #HLWBB standings. Kyle Rossi has the preview.
Cleveland State Vikings WBB 2025-26 Preview
Chris Kielsmeier has no idea what the outside expectations concerning his 2025-26 Cleveland State team are likely to be. That’s not to say that he doesn’t know what they might be, he just isn’t sure which well-worn narrative will take hold before the ball is tipped in November. And there are several. Such are the fickle nature of expectations, unscientific calculations that attempt to synthesize known pieces of information, like a team’s recent performance and lists of incoming and outgoing student-athletes, then produce a guide to the unknowable.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Milwaukee finds itself rebuilding after a last-place finish in 2024-25. The Panthers will rely on some key holdovers and new faces to turn things around this year. Kyle Rossi has the preview. #HLWBB
Milwaukee Panthers WBB 2025-26 Preview
Last season, Milwaukee found itself in an extremely unfamiliar position: last place. UWM has generally been a consistently-strong program and a postseason regular – including a 2020-21 campaign that saw a share of the Horizon League regular season title, and a demolition of Drake in the first round of the WNIT – so last place is about as acceptable in Cream City as Anheuser-Busch.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Green Bay's Maddy Skorupski is our pick for #HLWBB Player of the Year.

Read here for all of our other All-League picks, compiled by Kyle Rossi.
2025-26 HoriZone Roundtable #HLWBB Preseason All-Horizon League Teams
Maddy Skorupski had an outstanding case for the Horizon League’s Player of the Year award last season. As it was, she made the all-conference first team as a junior, thanks to finishing third in the HL in scoring (16.3), sixth in assists (3.1), and first in steals (2.8). The only thing that kept her from the league’s highest individual award was, arguably, her Oakland team’s 9-22 record.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
With Jordana Reisma now at Missouri, Cleveland State will rely on a new post rotation of Laurel Rockwood and Izzi Zingaro this season. The duo offers complementary skills and a competitive spirit. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/10/03/r...
Rockwood, Zingaro Help Vikings Run Post-to-Post
Chris Kielsmeier had a quick reply to what should have been a tough question: who does he need to step into a much bigger role during the upcoming season? Such a query has no shortage of possible o…
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October 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Colbi Maples, recently cleared for action after an ACL tear wiped out her 2024-25 season, hopes she can contribute an elite edge that the Vikings were decidedly missing last year. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/10/02/g...
“Giddy” Maples Hopes Return Elevates Vikings’ Defense
Whether fair or not, at least part of the story of Cleveland State’s 2024-25 women’s basketball season concerns disappointment. The Vikings, for the first time in program history, were voted as the…
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October 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Cleveland State formally initiated its 2026 freshman class in a big way on Thursday morning. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/09/18/v...
Vikings Jump Start 2026 Class with 6-6 Carr
New Cleveland State post players Izzi Zingaro and Laurel Rockwood have received overwhelmingly-positive reviews through their summer and preseason workouts, offering the promise that the Vikings wi…
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September 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On August 17th, Cleveland State tennis players Ella Franz and Laura Tapia enjoyed the chance to compete in a WTA event, Cleveland's Tennis in the Land tournament. Here's the story of how that unlikely opportunity came together. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/09/02/c...
CSU’s Ella Franz and Laura Tapia Savor Tennis in the Land Opportunity
After arriving in town for her freshman year of college in mid-August, Cleveland State women’s tennis player Laura Tapia tried her best to get settled in quickly. That can be a weighty transition f…
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September 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In the final #HLWBB Starting Five of the summer, we run down Detroit Mercy's ever-growing 2026 freshman class, Wright State's creative revenue-sharing ideas, and some of the unconventional paths that former Horizon Leaguers take to the Olympics. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/08/26/h...
#HLWBB Starting Five: Next Year Edition
Welcome back to the #HLWBB Starting Five, your sporadic offseason rundown of news and fun from around Horizon League women’s basketball. 1. Money Since March, when the Horizon League and its member…
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August 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Horizon League has updated its tournament format for the first time since UIC's 2022 departure from the conference, a move highlighted by a larger number of invitations to Indianapolis. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/08/20/h...
Horizon League Revamps Tournament Format
In 2026, the Horizon League tournaments will be the beginning of the end. Or, more accurately, the beginning of a new end. The conference will substantially revise its playoff schedule in the comin…
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August 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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August 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In the latest #HLWBB Starting Five, I have possibly the first piece of NIU news that has nothing to do with the MAC. Also: RMU's new jerseys, Jewel Watkins' new team, and the HL's new (???) tournament site. horizoneroundtable.com/2025/08/12/h...
#HLWBB Starting Five: Put A Cork In It Edition
Welcome back to the #HLWBB Starting Five, your sporadic offseason rundown of news and fun from around Horizon League women’s basketball. 1. Style On Friday, Robert Morris shared their new navy jers…
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August 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM