Get to Know a College Basketball Mid-Major: Horizon League
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You know all about the Power 5 conferences in college basketball. You hear about those more than any other, and those groups often dominate the March Madness conversation. There are 26 other conferences out there, however, and our goal is to get you up to speed on the teams, players and fights in the standings to know before the conference tournaments, Selection Sunday and the official start of March Madness. It’s time for you to get to know a mid-major: this time, it’s the Horizon League. The Horizon League was originally known as the Midwestern City Conference back when it formed in 1979; the name would later change to Midwestern Collegiate Conference, then to its current moniker in 2001. While it had six teams at the start, there are now 11 within it, still located in the midwest despite the name changes. All 11 of the Horizon League’s teams qualify for the men’s and women’s conference basketball tournaments, which is simple enough, but the complication is in the seeding once the tourneys are already going. The Horizon uses a reseeding format that resets the bracket after every round, assuring that the highest remaining seed is always facing the lowest remaining seed, which is how you end up with future scheduled games that don’t say "No. 5 vs. No. 4" but instead "Fifth-best 1st-round winner vs. Fourth-best 1st-round winner". That seeding setup is huge, as there are no byes: there is an initial play-in between the bottom two seeds, but then the top seed goes right at it against the winner of that game in the first round. This setup makes winning the whole tournament easier for the top seed(s), and that’s vital since the automatic bid is the only way a Horizon League team will be making it to March Madness this year. Horizon — Men’s College Basketball Leaders: The Horizon tournament started early with the play-in on March 2, which already gave us a wild game between 10th-ranked Cleveland State and 11-seed IU Indy. On Tuesday, 5-seed Green Bay eliminated 6-seed Pur
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- No Data Available - BROWSE BY SPORTS & TEAMS PLAYERS SHOWS PERSONALITIES TOPICS Built on College Basketball College Basketball Get to Know a College Basketball Mid-Major: Horizon League Published Mar. 4, 2026 1:36 p.m. ET share facebook x reddit link You know all about the Power 5 conferences in college basketball. You hear about those more than any other, and those groups often dominate the March Madness conversation. There are 26 other conferences out there, however, and our goal is to get you up to speed on the teams, players and fights in the standings to know before the conference tournaments, Selection Sunday and the official start of March Madness. It’s time for you to get to know a mid-major: this time, it’s the Horizon League. The Horizon League was originally known as the Midwestern City Conference back when it formed in 1979; the name would later change to Midwestern Collegiate Conference, then to its current moniker in 2001. While it had six teams at the start, there are now 11 within it, still located in the midwest despite the name changes. All 11 of the Horizon League’s teams qualify for the men’s and women’s conference basketball tournaments, which is simple enough, but the complication is in the seeding once the tourneys are already going. The Horizon uses a reseeding format that resets the bracket after every round, assuring that the highest remaining seed is always facing the lowest remaining seed, which is how you end up with future scheduled games that don’t say "No. 5 vs. No. 4" but instead "Fifth-best 1st-round winner vs. Fourth-best 1st-round winner". That seeding setup is huge, as there are no byes: there is an initial play-in between the bottom two seeds, but then the top seed goes right at it against the winner of that game in the first round. This setup makes winning the whole tournament easier for the top seed , and that’s vital since the automatic bid is the only way a Horizon League team will be making it to March Madness this year. ...
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