Women's Basketball: OU junior charged with task of replacing outgoing star player
By Alex Marcheschi | Nov. 27, 2012Steve Young knows how hard it is. So do Aaron Rodgers, Kyrie Irving and Andrew Luck.
Steve Young knows how hard it is. So do Aaron Rodgers, Kyrie Irving and Andrew Luck.
November is the time of year when Americans eat a combined 675 million pounds of turkey, shoppers do anything for a good sale, and swimmers complete in their first meets of the season.
After starting the season with a win against Cleveland State, Ohio has dropped three straight games, losing to Minnesota and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in its road trip to the Gopher State before falling to Duquesne Sunday.
Rajon Rondo is in the midst of something special.
St. Bonaventure is a model of perseverance.
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.