Having endured a roller-coaster ride full of ups and downs throughout the season, coach Ryan Theis and the Bobcats are left hungry at the conclusion, despite having passed expectations.
Lexie Baldwin is not the typical Ohio women’s basketball player. Her favorite hobbies include fishing, riding four-wheelers (or mud-riding, as she calls it), and hunting. When she is not shooting wild game, though, she is perfecting her game on the hardwood.
This isn’t your dad’s Big Ten anymore, and come 2014 it won’t resemble the one I hold dearly, either.
It’s safe to say that Ohio passed its first real test with flying colors Saturday, besting Richmond in come-from-behind fashion.
For the second consecutive season, the Bobcats will find themselves at home for the NCAA Tournament, despite winning the Mid-American Conference regular season title and finishing with the best winning percentage in the MAC.
After splitting two games at home against Indiana, coach Dan Morris did something most coaches sitting at 14-2-2 would avoid.
Ohio relinquished an early lead to suffer defeat at the hands of Duquesne by a score of 62-55 Sunday.
For the second consecutive year, Ohio exited the Mid-American Conference Tournament in the semifinal round despite dominating regular-season play.
Kent, Ohio — Signage in Dix Stadium pronounces it as, “The House that Hazell Built.” Ohio could do nothing to demolish it, or the Golden Flashes’ season Friday.
After Ohio’s eight-point win against Hampton Tuesday, the Bobcats looked far from satisfied — even a bit dejected. Their margin of victory was its slimmest of the young season, and Ohio senior forward Ivo Baltic admitted to seeing his team outworked at different points in the game.
In the spirit of “no-shave November,” members of Ohio’s hockey team are growing out their facial hair. But those aren’t the only mustaches becoming popular at Bird Arena.
Impressive, phenomenal, huge — those are only a few of the many positive adjectives Ohio swim coach Greg Werner uses to describe his diving team. Werner’s voice sounds excited whenever he talks about the diving program.
Heading into the season, Ohio coach Jim Christian said the Bobcats’ ability to have different players enter the limelight on any given night gives his team an edge when it comes to versatility in setting an offensive game plan.
Pregame
Ohio trailed its opponent for only 11 seconds of game play in 80 minutes of competition during the weekend, besting University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Wofford by a cumulative 61 points.
After Friday’s 3-2 overtime loss to Illinois, Ohio’s locker room was almost silent, the clanking of sticks and the untying of skates were the only sounds filling the air.
After being handed its worst loss since 2010 by Minnesota the day before, Ohio showed some character in a close first half, but ultimately lost to University of Nevada Las Vegas 60-51 Sunday.
After winning the outright Mid-American Conference regular-season title last weekend, top-seeded Ohio was upset by No. 4 Northern Illinois in a five-set battle in Saturday’s semifinal MAC Tournament match.
American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” The Bobcats matched the quote perfectly by clinching the Patriot Invitational at George Mason in Fairfax, Va., after losing the first two dual meets this season.
Solutions by The State News