Absolutely one of the most dominant three game stretches in Ohio basketball history. Amazing. Congratulations! Great coaching and great play.

The Elton article has a few irritants, but not bad considering his past writing about Ohio.

I said all year I was so impressed by the Illinois game and this team is extremely good. Have to admit I didn’t expect this run though, so proud and excited for the Bobcats. Let’s goooooooo!!!

If we draw Purdue my wife who went to IU will be yelling louder for us than I will.

Haha she’d better yell louder than Bobby Knight in the famous locker room speech

Agree on the article, SBH. Solid summary of what happened last night.

What I like most about this team is that it's almost Zen-like in turning it opponents' advantages against them. Our team is athletic enough, but when they're playing well they turn opponents' sometimes superior athleticism against them.

That starts with the deceptively deliberate pace with which our point guard runs the offense. Our patience opens us up to mistakes by the other team. Sometimes that happens early in the shot clock and sometimes late. Opponents sometimes try to force the ball out of Preston's hands and we counter with Sears on the ball and Preston doing his thing from the wing.

Defensively, we aren't the best at defending field goal attempts and we've had days when the help defense is off a bit. But, this is countered by solid defensive rebounding and solid assist/turnover ratio. We're pretty sneaky on steals -- taking calculated risk. Opponents are pressured to be shot makers against us.

Not only is this fun to watch. It's the kind of team that can win a couple games in the NCAA tournament.

I don't think it's horrible but it completely misses the flavor of the game. BVP's three was huge but the story of the game was Jason Preston. It's almost like he was a nice supporting piece and not the headline story of the tournament. Other than listing his stats Elton's biggest accolade for Preston is to say he's a "quality point guard."

That would suck from POV that it’d be a pain to get tickets that are already scarce. Plus a sorta home game for Purdue (as much as a 25% capacity arena could provide)

Any idea if OU gets an allotment that could be made available to OBC members?

https://www.news-herald.com/sports/upsets-1-2-and-3-ohio-...

Another nice article. (I actually like the E. Alexander article.)

 

"The character of this group, is why we won this." pic.twitter.com/y8a47IFj30

— Ohio Bobcats (@OhioBobcats) March 14, 2021

There are several errors in the article, including that apparently he thinks the MAC tournament has only included the top 8 teams for several years now.

My family and I were flying home from vacation yesterday, proudly wearing the green and white. We came across several folks who either had Ohio ties or saw the game the night before. It's great to see our program get a little national attention like that from time to time.

Also, I heard Bilas on the radio this morning predicting that Virginia should be concerned about playing us. Bilas spoke highly of us and notably Preston, which must pain Jay Bilas deeply. I've always felt like he doesn't want mid majors in the tourney at all. He also mentioned he wouldn't be shocked to see the 2nd round matchup in our bracket be Ohio vs UCSB.

Okay, I know this is old news but I've been thinking about the statement above in Elton's article because I didn't remember the play that proceeded the inbound to BVP. I just went back and watched it and sorry, Elton, but this is complete BS. Segu was beat by Brown off a pick by BVP and had a path to the bucket. Segu tried to recover but the contact was by Segu trying to slide underneath him from the side. Clearly a block and Buffalo was lucky it was a no-call. Bertram sent Brown's shot into the cheap seats to set up the inbound to Vander Plas. But Ohio did not get "a break" there.