BWHAHHA! Sounds like we were doing our job! I don't believe the student section used to be behind the opponents bench though. Hope we can keep it up! Tbh some of the chirps I heard last night towards players like Moss / Rollins, just golden

As a student starting to attend games in the fall of 1973 the setup was full bleachers on both sides. The student section was the west bleachers and the lower bowl behind the bleachers. The band sat behind the basket.

But this did not preclude some students from sitting in the seats right behind the opponent bench in the bleachers opposite most of the students. I can picture the same students, mostly male that sat behind the bench every game. I think I recall chairs used by the players but perhaps the teams sat on the first row of bleachers to give a safer sideline than chairs on the floor. Or maybe the fan is recalling playing in Grover before the Convo came to life.

What i would say is i don't really blame Rodericks performance all on Roderick. There is a big problem the team obviously doesn't have confidence it has caused Sears to only use half the court. sears puts himself in positions that makes getting the ball to one or two players on court. I think it started as a roderick thing but now it is a habit he is in all the time.

You even see it out of Carter and BVP the player sags off him on to one of the big guys they will not toss it out no matter what. Now there in that habit and it doesn't matter who is in the game. None of your other players can step up if you don't trust them. Bobcats shot like 21% from 3 in 1st half and none of them were rodercik misses.

I thought Boles did not help himself any last night as he made changes that seemed to thwart the momentum a few times in the game. I wasn't overly impressed by toledo they are a good team. But ohio needs to decide who they are going to war with. And go for it. I was very disappointed in the team work. I think this team can still be very, very good but need to shift it into another gear

1 game does not make a season.
Let's not make this loss bigger than it is.




GO BOBCATS

Fred smacked me with a snowball….6’8” with a heck of an arm.

That had all the makings of an absolute classic and true program changing night when we were mounting the comeback. I hadn't been that amped up in the Convo in a long time. I hope the fringe fans / new students still had a good time and will keep coming back.

Toledo was incredible. They honestly seemed to feed off the atmosphere and rose to the occasion. A lot of the time we don't give opponents enough credit in a loss but they looked really really good on Friday. Scary to think that entire 5 is coming back next year and possibly the following year.

The 2 off the ball fouls on IJ were absolutely gutting. I don't know how valid they were, and neither do most of you, because we're all watching the ball. But boy it hurt.

The slow start was big and really took us out of our game. We are 210th in the country in 3 pt % yet we shot 29 threes. I think we had a ton of open looks and once again just didn't hit. Roderick's 3 attempts were all wide open. If they're going to give him that shot and he can't make it, it is going to cause a lot of problems for our offense. I can not believe it is the end of January and Ben Roderick is shooting 20% from 3.

Mark Sears 1 assist and 7 turnovers...yikes. Disappointing following his best game in the ball distribution dept against Miami. He is so damn good at scoring but hopefully Boals & the staff are continually working on bettering this part of his game. Ryan Rollins blew past Sears in the POY race on Friday. Hopefully Mark can even the score in Toledo. The fact that they're both true Sophomores is exciting for the league.

We attempted two three point shots before Toledo first took a ten point lead, making one. After Toledo went up 19-9, we shot 13 more three pointers for the first half, making only two more. Meanwhile, we shot 9/13 from inside the arc for the half, and went to the foul line only three times in the first half.

The worst thing that could come out of this game is to not learn from it. January conference games are the best time to learn. And what I hope we learn is that we don't need to play desperately on offense and mount the big comeback immediately. Keep the game around 10 points and the hole is not that big going into halftime.

Hopefully students continue to bring energy and numbers. Feels like it's been a while since we've won the big student interest home game in hoops or football.

Also watched the UT-UD game. Had me thinking there's several degrees of athleticism.

UD>UT>OU>my intramural basketball team that reached the all-campus final 4.