Wanting a fairly called game is not "relying" on officials.

That was terrible regardless of score.

Hooooo boy!

We showed some pretty serious fight in the handshake line after the game though!

That's a good look.

If he's done for the year, it might be the only saving grace that keeps him in a Bobcat uniform next season.

I think that's why we are likely to see an actual firing. I know that we don't often fire a coach when there is a buyout involved, but the circumstances this year seem to me to indicate an exception is in order. Slade may have to a little creative fundraising, but I just don't see him letting this opportunity to bring in his own many slide. As always, I could be wrong, especially if we beat Miami twice!

The most unlikeable Ohio basketball team I have ever watched in my lifetime.

Based on what I saw Sun Belt > MAC.

Sheldon + Breath score 30 and we lose.

If I had didn't know team records, I'd assume ODU had the better record of the 2 teams.

This university will not dismiss Coach Boals after this season. The former AD didn’t dismiss Bob Bolden after four non winning seasons and three seasons were flat out horrible. Boals will be back next season with his high priced salary thanks to the former AD who is no longer in Athens.

I watched ODU’s coach have pull his team out of the handshake line tonight.

I was in Muncie and sat behind the bench and watched our coaching staff act like buffoons for two and a half hours. Flopping and screaming at officials with every drive into the paint. One assistant who spent the entire game screaming at an official through every time out.

Constantly looking back at the other bench after made shots against St. Bonaventure, with them going on a furious run right afterwards.

All in losses. All with the arrogance of an actual quality team.

Enough with this clown show. This staff and team reminds me of the Dan Dakich teams at BG in the early 2000s. Fake tough guys and mediocre results. Menacing glares galore from a 13-12 team that has never committed a foul and is fouled on every trip.

Unwatchable.

One weekend I sat courtside at a Nebraska-Indiana game and then went to an OU game the next weekend. I marveled at Fred Hoiberg’s demeanor and sense of mastery and then had to sit through unbridled rage and sniping and glares and fake outrage in a way that made me just not want to spend another dollar watching them anytime soon.

I don’t really care about the record that much. I understand the challenges of the job and that this team is what it is. Can we act with a modicum of decency?

Michael - You are a sad, sad man.

This team has a few goof balls. Lack of discipline and sportsmanship. Boals hasn't developed the roster and poor leadership by the upperclassmen on the court. This team comes unglued. This team a lot like Juwan Howard teams at Michigan. The poor sportsmanship covers up a poorly coached team. Boals needs to be let go at end of the season along with this staff. They are a bunch of crybabies. Don't like losing then play harder and better. They are a poor defensive team that can't shoot most nites. They don't respect the other team. A bunch of bufoons who are out hustled every nite. Bad fouls. Boals hasn't earned that salary. He is at best middle of the MAC. With all the talent and tradition we have had he hasn't gotten it done lately. Seven years and .500 last two.

So this team isn’t even classy enough to be men and go thru the handshake line? I am hopeful this team can be respectful to the school name on their uniforms, no matter how bad the breaks are or the calls are. I would expect the staff and seniors to set good examples.

I still had the TV on after the game, but I guess was distracted or uninterested because I didn't see this fracas on the handshake line. I remember seeing the handshake line start, but I guess I should have kept my eyes on the screen a few seconds longer. If it was really as bad as being described here, I think that's one more reason that we need a coaching change. I can't think of another OHIO basketball coach who wouldn't have disciplined players that acted like that, and probably earlier on in the season for some of the antics on the court.

Watching live I totally missed it. Then after reading all of this, I went back and watched. I could be wrong, but it looked like Barlow got into it first with somebody. Then Jones looked to be having a very good conversation with Captain Chaos and then it looked like Chaos said something to a player and Jones had enough and told his guys to get off the floor.

Regardless…we have seen such a lack of discipline with this basketball team this year in so many different areas. It’s something that this coaching staff has failed to address from day one. I am starting to believe that if Boals closes 1-6 or 2-5 to end the regular season he might need a win in Cleveland to keep his job for another year. Miami’s rise isn’t helping his cause. And let’s be honest….the Ohio Men’s basketball program is currently a shitcapade. Any NIL money coming in right now will be less heading into a Boals lame duck 2026-2027 season. Much less.

If I am Thornton and Barlow, I’m looking to move on after this season.