Women's Basketball: No victories and many challenges for Bobcats
By Chad Lindskog | Jan. 23, 2013The Bobcats remain winless in the Mid-American Conference this season after falling to Central Michigan 77-48 on Thursday.
The Bobcats remain winless in the Mid-American Conference this season after falling to Central Michigan 77-48 on Thursday.
With less than two minutes remaining in the Oxford edition of this season’s Battle of the Bricks, Miami junior guard Quinten Rollins watched from underneath the basket as his wide-open layup attempt rolled off the front of the rim, harmlessly to the floor.
Miami’s Millett Hall is a 44-year-old brick facility that is intended to seat 9,200 onlookers. The RedHawks have called it home for the past 39 seasons, during which their games with Ohio have filled the venue to capacity four times.
When Josep Guardiola, former coach of FC Barcelona and probably best soccer coach on earth right now, was signed this past week by the German soccer club team Bayern Munich, seemingly no one in the United States cared about it.
2004 marked the year in which the tsunami ravaged the Indian Ocean region, Athens, Greece hosted the 28th Summer Olympics, and Mark Zuckerburg founded Fackbook. This year also marked the start of Ohio’s winning streak against Marshall.
Ohio beat rival Miami 74-62 Wednesday at Millett Hall to move to 14-5 on the year and 5-0 in Mid-American Conference play. Read our chronological coverage of the game below.
It seems that Ohio cannot catch a break, and it doesn’t get any easier as the Bobcats take the floor tonight in The Convo with Central Michigan — the only undefeated team in Mid-American Conference play.
“Who doesn’t love to win” is one line in the Marshall University fight song. The Thundering Herd’s swimmers, though, haven’t felt the love of winning against Ohio in years.
For years, Kobe Bryant has been known as a prolific scorer, which overshadows his other abilities, despite doing everything in his will to lead his team to victory.
After defeating Marshall in the middle of December, Ohio was one game under .500 and in the midst of a three-game win streak.
Ohio University President Roderick McDavis and his wife Deborah sat several rows behind the scorer’s table during the Bobcats’ win against Toledo Saturday.
Ohio moved to 13-5 on the year with a 76-67 win against Toledo Saturday at The Convo. The Bobcats are now 4-0 in Mid-American Conference play. Read our chronological coverage of the game below.
Ohio coach Dan Morris spent his Thursday morning reading about how a Notre Dame football player might have made up a fake girlfriend.
This past February, Ohio packed in a bus and headed toward Columbus, from which it turned onto U.S. Route 23 and trekked to the state’s northerly border to take on Toledo at its Savage Arena.
Rivalries exist and are prevalent in every sport, and athletes are taught that there are certain teams that a loss against means more than a notch in the loss column.
Injuries have forced Ohio into a mode of desperation. Ashley Jordan, a former Ohio volleyball player, and Laura Mastro from the field hockey team, suited up for the Bobcats as Miami defeated Ohio 78-56.
After suffering two blowout losses to Akron and Buffalo to start Mid-American Conference play, Ohio will hit the road for Oxford to battle with Miami Thursday.
“The holidays are usually the time of the year you’d be sitting around,” Ohio swimming coach Greg Werner takes a pause before adding, “but that is not the life we choose.”