Reach The Horizon

ESPN's Jordan Bernfield has been calling the Horizon League games on ESPN for quite a few years now and he knows better than anybody just how exciting these games can be. Jordan is our guest on this weeks edition of Reach The Horizon as he gets us set for tonight's ESPN2 showdown between the Oakland Golden Grizzlies and the Youngstown State Penguins. Justin Kinner and Jordan also talk about the le...

The Wright State Raiders are coming off of an impressive 2-0 road sweep over Green Bay & Milwaukee to even their conference record to 4-4. It has been an up and down season for Wright State who continues to fight to find their way in a very deep Horizon League. The Raiders have their hands full this weekend as they have Purdue Fort Wayne coming to the Nutter Center tonight and then they we'll welc...

The voice of the Robert Morris Colonials men’s basketball team Chris Shovlin is this weeks guest on Reach The Horizon - Justin Kinner and Chris Shovlin break down the slow start to the season for Robert Morris and how they have improved to the point where they destroyed Wright State on the road and beat the pre-season favorite Purdue Fort Wayne. Are the Colonials for real? The guys discuss that +...

Justin Kinner and John Nolan (Voice of Purdue Fort Wayne) both highlight what they believe are the top Horizon League matchups for both men and women's hoops this weekend. Justin is also joined by the voice of the Milwaukee Panthers Scott Warras to talk about the 8-4 start and most importantly the 2-0 start in league play. Are the Panthers for real under first year head coach Bart Lundy? The guys...

The Youngstown State Penguins are 1-1 in Horizon League play after they split their opening conference road trip at Northern Kentucky and Wright State. The Penguins were led by Dwayne Cohill who dropped a career highh 43 points on Wright State this past weekend. His 32 points per game last week made him the obvious choice for the Horizon League Player of the Week award. This weeks guest on Reach T...

As the college hoops season advances so will Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis on college basketball's All-Time leading scorers list. In fact as of the recording date of this podcast, Davis is 18 points away from becoming the Horizon League's All-Time leading scorer. Pretty exciting. Jeremy Otto has had the pleasure of being the voice of the Mercy through out Davis's career. Otto joins Justin Kinner o...

Northern Kentucky made headlines last week for their huge home win over the Cincinnati Bearcats at BB&T Arena. It's rare for Horizon League programs to knock off high major programs but what's even more rare is when Horizon League programs get these high major's on their home floor. The voice of the Norse Jim Kelch joined Justin Kinner on this weeks show to discuss how the Norse got the Bearcats t...

Youngstown State was tabbed the Horizon League favorites in the Horizon League Pre-Season Women's basketball poll - It was a first in Penguins program history. John Barnes was last year's coach of the year for the Penguins and he is this weeks guest on Reach The Horizon - Coach Barnes & Justin Kinner discuss the recent success of the program and how they continue to build on the already high expec...

The college basketball season is officially here and that is why we had a familiar voice of Horizon League men's basketball Jordan Bernfield (ESPN) on the show. The guys broke down the conferences pre-season polls and also highlighted some of the bigger non-conference matchups ahead such as Wright State at Louisville, Cincinnati at Northern Kentucky, and Purdue Fort Wayne at No.23 Michigan.

Purdue Fort Wayne head basketball coach Jon Coffman joined Justin Kinner on this week's edition of Reach The Horizon - Coach weighed in on the programs success since transitioning into the Horizon League and how he is going to manage the expectations with his guys who were just selected as the conferences pre-season number 1 team, tied with Northern Kentucky. The Mastadons will open up the season...

We tip off season 3 of the Reach The Horizon League Podcast with ESPN's Jordan Bernfield who has called all of the Horizon League games on the ESPN family of networks for years now. Justin Kinner and Jordan Bernfield break down the HLMBB Pre-Season polls and weigh in on some of the more interesting non-conference matchups for the upper half of the league.

Cleveland State, Oakland, Northern Kentucky, & Wright State are getting all of the coverage heading into the final home stretch of the regular season and the title race - But if you pay close attention you will realize that sitting in 5th place is the hottest team in the league with 5 straight wins including a triple-OT thriller vs Cleveland State. We're talking about the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodo...

The Norse have quietly won 10 of their last 12 games and have hung around the top of the Horizon League standings. As things heat up with only a hand full of games remaining in the regular season, Justin Kinner caught up with the voice of NKU men's hoops Jim Kelch. The season has not gone as smooth as Norse fans had hoped but Jim Kelch reveals what adjustments Norse head coach Darrin Horn made tha...

ESPN's Jordan Bernfield joins Justin Kinner to breakdown the current state of the Horizon League heading into the final stretch of the regular season + the guys preview Friday night's ESPNU matchup with the Wright State Raiders at the Milwaukee Panthers.

ESPN's Dan Murphy weighs in on how Horizon League athletes could prosper from the latest NIL rulings. The guys debunk the theory that NIL will only impact the "Bigger Programs" plus they discuss the different examples of how athletes have already hit the ground running since July 1st when the restrictions were lifted.

Kari Hoffman was named the 8th head coach in Wright State Raiders program history just over a month ago following the departure of Katrina Merriweather. In that months time, Coach Hoffman has hit the recruiting trail hard to fill out her 2021 roster and has pieced together her coaching staff. Coach Hoffman is this week's guest on Reach The Horizon with Justin Kinner.

Matt Crenshaw is an IUPUI Jaguars Hall of Famer, an Alum, a long time Jags assistant coach, and now he is officially the 10th head coach in IUPUI Jaguars history. Coach Crenshaw is this weeks guest on Reach The Horizon with Justin Kinner (Presented by Zurvita).

The Wright State Raiders baseball team is heading back to the NCAA Championships after capturing it's fourth Horizon League Title in the last six seasons. The Raiders are headed to the Knoxville Regional as the No. 4 seed where they will take on the No.1 Seed Tennessee Volunteers on Friday night at 6pm on ESPN3. Raiders head coach Alex Sogard is this weeks guest with Justin Kinner on "Reach The Ho...

Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball coach Pat Baldwin is this weeks guest on Reach The Horizon - It was a big week for the Baldwin family, the Panthers program, and the Horizon League as Baldwin's son Patrick Baldwin Jr. (5 Star Recruit - No. 4 rated recruit in the class of 2021) committed to play for the Panthers over the likes of Duke, Georgetown, Virginia & others.

For the first time since 2013 the Milwaukee men's soccer program won the Horizon League Conference Tournament Title - Panthers head coach Kris Kelderman joined Justin Kinner on this weeks Championship edition podcast to share his teams journey to get to this point as well as to discuss how having his son on this years team made this the most special season ever.

The Milwaukee Panthers won their 3rd straight Horizon League Tournament Championship over Northern Kentucky in penalty kicks to get back to the NCAA Tournament. In what has been the most unique soccer season in NCAA history, Panthers head coach Troy Fabiano opens up about the journey to his team winning the conference tournament title and what sacrifices had to be made.

The Wright State Raiders Volleyball team won their first ever Horizon League Conference Championship this past weekend over the UIC Flames in a five set classic. The Raiders are back in the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season where they will take on the Samford Bulldogs on Wednesday, April 14th in first round action. Wright State's two time coach of the year Allie Matters is this weeks...

1 Buzzer Beater. 3 Overtime Games. 1 Triple OT Game. A miraculous 24-Point Comeback & more summarizes the four men's Quarterfinal match-ups on Tuesday night. ESPN's Jordan Bernfield is this weeks guest on Reach The Horizon as the guys react to last night's four instant classic finishes.

Dan Gliot (Horizon League Representative - Director of Communications) is this weeks guest on Reach The Horizon - We are heading into the final week of the regular season and there a lot of questions regarding the seeding model that the Horizon League implemented due to the impact on games played and missed from COVID-19.

Cleveland State Vikings head coach Dennis Gates is this weeks guest on the Reach The Horizon podcast with Justin Kinner - Coach Gates shares why he still chooses to wear a suite on game day while other coaches have gone casual PLUS coach shares the history of former Vikings head coach John McLendon heading into the Horizon League's very first Coach John McLendon Day (February 12th 2021)