Lincoln (IL) High School 2015 shooting guard has given a verbal commitment to Ohio Basketball. The 6-5, 185-pounder held offers from Northern Illinois and Bradley among several others. Block visited Ohio over the weekend and gave his commitment to new Ohio head coach Saul Phillips on Monday. He averaged 15.9 points and 5.7 rebounds as a junior for Lincoln.

Block joins Doug Taylor (Columbus Northland) and Jordan Dartis (Newark) as members of the 2015 recruiting class. With Block's commitment,...

Per his Twitter account, 2015 Newark High School combo guard Jordan Dartis has given a verbal commitment to Ohio. The 6-3, 180-pounder has a 3-star ranking from ESPN. Dartis is the first commitment to Ohio's 2015 class.

Coach Saul Phillips recently announced the addition of Chandler Thomas to the Ohio basketball recruiting class.

Thomas, a 6-6 power forward, is a transfer from Grambling State who has graduated and thus is eligible to play right away this upcoming season. He began his basketball career at UMBC and has two seasons of eligibility remaining, having played just one year at each of the two schools.

This past season for the Tigers, Thomas averaged 8.0 points and 5.9 rebounds in 22.8 minutes per...

St. John's Northwest Military Academy shooting guard Ryan Taylor signed with Ohio today. The 6-5 Taylor played high school basketball at Michigan City HS in Indiana. He chose the Bobcats over late interest from Michigan, Butler, Rode Island, Rutgers and Wisconsin.

Former Kettering Alter HS PG Jaaron Simmons will transfer to Ohio from the University of Houston. Simmons just completed his freshman campaign with the Cougars and will have 3 years of eligibility after sitting out the 2014-15 season. Last season for the Cougars, he played in 32 games averaging 11 minutes per contest. Simmons averaged 2 points per game while shooting 33.9% from the field.

Ohio now has 3 scholarships open for next season and could fill at least 1 more before the season starts.

Ohio Basketball has received a commitment from 2014 6'4" SG Mike Laster from Detroit Cass Tech High School. He had offers from Buffalo and BG among others. Laster becomes the 2nd member of Ohio's 2014 class. The Bobcats will probably look to fill two more scholarships prior to the 2014 season.

As originally reported by the Messenger's Jason Arkley, and now confirmed by the university, North Dakota St. coach Saul Phillips will be the next basketball coach at Ohio. The 41-year-old spent 7 season at NDSU where he compiled a 134-84 record. Phillips replaces Jim Christian who left for Boston College after two seasons at Ohio.

ATHENS – Trailing by 12 with little more than three minutes remaining, Ohio had a chance to tie in the final minute but came up short – after it led by as many as 17 points in the first half – falling 92-90 to VMI in the quarterfinals of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament on Wednesday night at The Convo.

Though it did not matter in the final results, the Mid-American Conference career 3-point leader Nick Kellogg hit one last shot at the buzzer and finished his career with his best-ever scoring...

ATHENS – With Nick Kellogg held in check and Maurice Ndour still struggling through a nagging back injury, Ohio had another player step up.

This time it was Javarez Willis, who scored 21 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:02 remaining to help Ohio rally past Wright State in the second round of the College Basketball.com Tournament on Saturday at The Convo.

Though he struggled through foul trouble, Antonio Campbell finished with eight points and five rebounds in 14 minutes. Tre...

ATHENS – Antonio Campbell made the most of having one more chance to play during his freshman season, scoring 11 of his team’s final 13 points, including the go-ahead free throws with less than five seconds left to lead Ohio to a 64-62 victory against Cleveland State in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament on Wednesday night at The Convo.

While the tournament extended the careers of Ohio’s seniors, it was the underclassmen who led the Bobcats (24-11) against the Vikings. Campb...