Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
When the Horizon League first built schedules around travel partners in 2015-16, the concept made sense — reducing costs of going on the road and eliminating time away from classes for players while also maximizing rest.
The idea was to pair schools geographically and give them essentially the same schedules.
When Wright State goes to Wisconsin for two games in three days, it plays Green Bay one night while travel partner Northern Kentucky faces Milwaukee, and then the two switch opponents the next game.
The same is true when the Wisconsin teams are the visitors. The Raiders host one and the Norse the other before flipping two days later.
Detroit Mercy and Oakland are travel partners, while Cleveland State and Purdue Fort Wayne also are paired up, as are Robert Morris and Youngstown State.
But Wright State coach Scott Nagy called the model “antiquated” and believes it hurts more than it helps.
