Valpo will be the 20th HL team

[indyvalpo]

I was just looking on the Horizon league site and I knew that the Horizon (Midwestern Cities, Midwest Collegiate) had several teams over the years but we will be #20.

Only two originals still are in the league (Butler and Loyola).

The other 4 originals (ORU, Evansville, Xavier and Oklahoma City) have moved up or on.

Detroit came in year 2.

Others who have made a stop there besides the current nine:

St Louis
Dayton
Marquette
LaSalle
DuQuense
Northern Illinois (one season after the Mid-Con)

[srt4driver]

A detailed look at both current and former members can be found here... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_League

I consider Detroit to be essentially an original member, joining in 1980. I wonder what the story was behind them becoming a member one year after the conference was founded?