CHICAGO – Fifty years after knocking off the University of Cincinnati to capture the NCAA championship, the 1963 Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball team will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on November 24 in Kansas City, Mo. The 1963 Rambler squad is the first team ever to be enshrined in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Cleveland State will be represented at the 2013 New Orleans Combine later this week, as women's basketball senior standout Shalonda Winton was recently invited to attend the event. Winton will be one of over 25 players attending this year's Combine which is hosted in conjunction with the NCAA Women's Final Four in New Orleans, La.

Cleveland State sophomore Ali Shabib (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Green Bay senior Craig Cox (Surrey, England) have been named the Horizon League's Co-Players of the Week in men's tennis while UIC junior Mariana Palacios (Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador) takes the women's honor. It is Shabib's second award of the season and the first for both Cox and Palacios.

Milwaukee senior Jake Long has been named the Horizon League Pitcher of the Week for the third week in a row while Youngstown State junior Marcus Heath earned Hitter of the Week honors for the first time this season.

After taking two games out of three from preseason-No. 1 Loyola, UIC freshman Laura Swan (Glendora, Calif.) and senior Devin Miller (Chicago, Ill.) have swept the weekly Horizon League Softball Players of the Week awards. Swan is the Hitter of the Week, the third in a row for the Flames, while Miller claims Pitcher of the Week after sharing the honor last week.

The Detroit women's basketball team overcame a halftime deficit to defeat McNeese State on Saturday afternoon and capture the Women's Basketball Invitational Championship.

Youngstown State senior forward Brandi Brown and Penguins junior third baseman Drew Dosch have been voted the Horizon League Scholar-Athletes of the Month for February. It is the third honor of the academic year for Brown, who also won in November and December. Brown garnered 55.6 percent of the February voting, while Dosch received 88.9 percent.

The National Association on Basketball Coaches on Tuesday unvieled its All-District honorees for the 2012-13 season, naming seven Horizon League men's basketball players to the District 12 First and Second Teams.

Detroit senior Doug Anderson has been selected to participate in the dunk contest portion of the State Farm Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championships during the weekend of the Final Four, Intersport announced today via Twitter.

An improbably successful season for the Wright State men's basketball team came to an ubrupt end on Wednesday night at the Nutter Center as the host Raiders fell 81-69 to Santa Clara in CBI semifinal action.