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So Long, Norris
While we were all basking in the glory of an Ohio State NCAA Tournament blowout weekend at the Q, the Cleveland State Vikings were taking the floor a short distance away at the Wolstein Center for the...
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WFNY Bracket Challenge – Sweet 16 Abounds
“Nobody cares about your bracket!” That has commonly been bandied about on Twitter, but it just isn’t true right here right now on this post. This is where we absolutely care about your bracket. We...
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WFNY Bracket Challenge – Ohio State Out
Well, I am sure a lot of WFNYers are significantly less interested in the tourney now that the Buckeyes have been Calipari’d out of the game. Still, the contest goes on for the Tribe tickets and...
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WFNY Bracket Challenge – Winning
Charlie Sheen is in town tonight and some people are pretending like this whole deal wasn’t played out two days after it started. Similarly, that championship game was played out about two minutes in....
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NBA Draft: On Norris Cole, and where he ends up
The last Cleveland State Viking to be drafted into the NBA was Clinton Smith in 1986. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors, but not until the 4th pick of the 5th round. Twenty-five years...
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Cleveland State Beats 7th Ranked Vanderbilt On Road To Open Season
At 2pm yesterday I shifted my attention away from the Cleveland Browns and over to the Cleveland State Vikings on ESPNU. Two hours later, I couldn’t have been more pleased with my decision. All Gary...
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Cleveland State Beats Kent State 57-53 Before A Packed House
The SEC or Big East didn’t need to send teams like Vanderbilt or West Virginia to Northeast Ohio last night in order to create that big-time basketball atmosphere. The Cleveland State Vikings and Kent...
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TD’s Ten For Tuesday
It’s Tuesday…. The Browns are bad and not interesting….The Cavs season still hasn’t started and we still don’t know when free agency and training camp will begin…. The Indians offseason is in full...
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Buckeyes beat a bad team and Cleveland State gets conference win over Detroit
Ohio State played the University of Texas Pan-American today. The Broncs, as opposed to the Broncos, are not a good basketball team. After beating Victory University in late November by 19 points, the...
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CSU Wins Two
It wasn’t pretty, but the Cleveland State Vikings continued their winning ways over the weekend. With the start of their usual Thursday/Saturday schedule, Gary Waters’s crew took on two undervalued...
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Norris Cole Goes Off in Second Career Contest
From the bowels of The Wolstein Center to the bright lights near Biscayne Bay, former Cleveland State University guard Norris Cole has already made a name for himself within the National Basketball...
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CSU Vikings Leave Indiana With a Split
Horizon League play is always done in pairs. Each team has a travelling partner and the norm is to play two games on the road or at home over a three day period. During the Gary Waters era at Cleveland...
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CSU Weekend Wrapup: Vikes Sweep Wisconsin Schools and Stay Atop Horizon League
It was a huge weekend for the Cleveland State Vikings basketball team. They entered Friday night’s home tilt with Green Bay in a three-way tie for the Horizon League lead with Valparaiso and the team...
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Valpo Stuns Cleveland State; Vikings Left Searching For Answers
It was only their biggest game of the year to date. With the potential to take sole control of first place in the Horizon League, controlling their own destiny the rest of the way, the Cleveland State...
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Vikings Collapsing At The Wrong Time
This one really hurt. The Cleveland State men’s basketball team was riding high, sitting atop the Horizon League in control of their own destiny to host the conference tournament just two short weeks...
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Can The Vikings “Right The Ship” In Time For March?
What has happened to the Cleveland State Vikings? Once the darlings of the Horizon League, the wheels have come off of the proverbial wagon and Head Coach Gary Waters has been left scratching his head,...
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Vikings Handle Their Business, Now Just Two Wins Away From the Big Dance
When we last left our Cleveland State Vikings, they were losers of five straight. This reeling bunch, which once stared down the Horizon League title and then fell completely off the table, had two...
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Opportunity Lost: Cleveland State’s Big Dance Dreams Shattered in Indiana
It wasn’t supposed to end that way. A season that started with a shocking 71-58 road win at #7 Vanderbilt, rode a 12-2 start to a 20-4 Horizon League lead, crashed and burned on a Valparaiso Saturday...
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The “Real” Ohio Gets Michigan, Bucks Stay East, Akron/CSU Get NIT Invites
Ah, we have arrived at March Madness. It is my favorite time of year. Now the country’s eyes are focused on a sport I follow intently all year long. I have a lot of friends that are of the “call me in...
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Cleveland State Preview: Season Tips Off With Waters Getting A Seven-Year...
Since the salad days of Kevin Mackey, the “Run and Stun,” and Ken “The Mouse ” McFadden, there were some seriously lean times for the Cleveland State Men’s College Basketball team. From Mike Boyd to...
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