Men's Basketball: Ohio topples Northern Iowa in key road contest
By Michael Stainbrook | Dec. 19, 2011Ohio visited Northern Iowa hoping to escape with a win. By the end of the game, the home team just wanted to escape with some dignity.
Ohio visited Northern Iowa hoping to escape with a win. By the end of the game, the home team just wanted to escape with some dignity.
Injured freshman guard Kat Yelle could have silently waited and watched as her Ohio University basketball team upended Atlantic-10 opponent Xavier in the Battle in the Desert Tuesday evening in double overtime.
It’s been a tale of two teams so far this year for Athens High School basketball. One wins at home, the other loses on the road.
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As much as he trusts his starters, coach John Groce must love putting Stevie Taylor, Nick Goff, Kenny Belton, David McKinley and Ethan Jacobs on the floor at the same time.
Niagara Falls is the best-known landmark in Northwest New York, the home of Niagara University. Not unlike the waterfalls, Niagara fell on Tuesday at the Convocation Center by a score of 50-40.
After holding a five-point lead with two matches to go, the Ohio wrestling team dropped a close meet on the road to Tennessee Chattanooga, 18-17.
In making the trip from the West Coast to Athens, the University of San Francisco women’s basketball team experienced a temperature drop of 13 degrees. However, the more important drop was the Dons’ 10th loss of the season, a 63-53 defeat.
In their first home meet of the season, the Bobcats were victorious over Appalachian State 20-15, as they picked up their first win of the season.
After back-to-back losses against Horizon League opposition, Ohio will look for brighter horizons.
The Bobcats grabbed an early lead in the Zippy Invitational and never looked back, as Ohio finished first every day in the three-day tournament to win the event for the sixth straight year.
Ohio (3-4) traveled to play Cleveland State (3-4) at the Wolstein Center. The Vikings won the contest with a final score of 66-56.
Ohio traveled 1,900 miles to the great southwest this weekend only to realize there was a grand canyon between them and two Arizona schools.
Bowl officials have confirmed that the Ohio Bobcats have accepted a bid to play Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Dec. 17 in Boise, Idaho.
It’s been 43 years and nine days since Ohio last won a Mid-American Conference football championship. But the long wait might be over in a matter of hours.
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Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect a correction.
With just over five minutes remaining in the second half, it appeared the basketball Bobcats would hand Marshall the same type of defeat their football peers served to the Thundering Herd in September. But a late Marshall rally squelched any possibility for another Bobcats blowout.
Furious play marked the first and last couple of minutes for the Ohio University women’s basketball team in Wednesday’s game against UNC-Wilmington at the Convocation Center.
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Athens Bulldogs’ historic season was rewarded on a state level Tuesday.