ATHENS, Ohio - The Ohio men's basketball team was selected Sunday to play in the National Invitation Tournament.

As a No. 6 seed, the Bobcats (24-9) travel to take on No. 3 Denver (21-9) at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.

Ohio is 4-4 in four all-time NIT appearances, having last taken part in the tournament in 1995.

The Bobcats were regular season Mid-American Conference co-champions and runners-up in the MAC Tournament. The Pioneers shared the Western Athletic League regular season title but were u...

CLEVELAND – As he so often has, D.J. Cooper made big plays when Ohio needed it most.

Cooper finished with 21 points and 10 assists, helping the Bobcats build a big lead and then hold off Western Michigan, 74-63, in the Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinals at Quicken Loans Arena on Friday night.

Ohio (24-8) advance to finals of the MAC Tournament opposite Akron for the third time in four years.

Western Michigan (20-12) trailed by 17 at the break but made a run in the first 10 mi...

CLEVELAND – Ohio scored only 17 points in the second half, going nearly 10 minutes without a field goal, and connected on just 1 of 20 3-pointers in the game as Akron pulled away for a 65-46 victory Saturday night in the Mid-American Conference Tournament title game at Quicken Loans Arena.

For the third time this season, the Bobcats held a first-half lead, only to have the Zips take the momentum in the second half, and for the first time in three title games between the schools in the last fo...

CLEVELAND – Senior D.J. Cooper was named Ohio’s first Mid-American Player of the Year since Gary Trent in 1995.

The league made the announcement Wednesday, reporting that he won by a wide margin, collecting 16 of 27 votes from a media panel. Akron senior center Zeke Marshall was second with seven votes, while Buffalo junior forward Javon McCrea earned two votes. Ball State senior guard Juwan Scaife and Toledo junior forward Rian Pierson had one vote apiece.

On Monday, it was announced Coop...

ATHENS, Ohio – Mid-American Conference regular season championships do not come often – or easy.

Stevie Taylor and Jon Smith came off the bench to spark a 15-0 run that rallied the Bobcats from a 12-point second-half deficit and to a 58-54 victory Saturday against last-place rival Miami to clinch Ohio’s first regular season MAC title since 1994.

On the Bobcats’ Senior Day at The Convo, D.J. Cooper had 17 points, but only two assists while shifting over to shooting guard for much of the sec...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ohio scored the game’s final nine points, getting a go-ahead D.J. Cooper 3-pointer with 1:34 remaining, and the Bobcats rallied in the closing minutes for a 72-69 victory against Buffalo at Alumni Arena.

Cooper scored 24 points and added five assists, helping Ohio (22-8, 13-2 Mid-American Conference) to come back from a six-point deficit with less than four minutes remaining. Cooper eclipsed the 2,000-point mark in his career, becoming just the third player, along with Gary Pa...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Reggie Keely scored 21 points and Nick Kellogg added 16 as Ohio got its first win at Bowling Green in five years, 78-65, on Saturday at the Stroh Center.

The Bobcats went on a 13-0 run in the first half to build a lead, and after the Falcons, rallied, Ohio used an 8-0 second-half run to begin pulling away.

Walter Offutt had 12 points and five assists, and D.J. Cooper finished with 10 points and six assists while tying Tommy Freeman’s school record for career 3-pointer...

ATHENS, Ohio – Jon Smith’s tip-in with less than a second remaining forced overtime, but Akron prevailed against Ohio in the extra period, 88-81, to take commanding control of first place in the Mid-American Conference on Wednesday night in front of more than 11,000 at The Convo.

Demetrius Treadwell had 21 points and seven rebounds, while Jake Kretzer did not miss a shot in scoring 19 points. Alex Abreu and Zeke Marshall, both tallied 16 points.

D.J. Cooper finished with 26 points and dish...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Belmont raced out to a 17-point halftime lead and coasted to an 81-62 BracketBuster victory against Ohio on Saturday night at the Curb Center.

The Bruins (22-6) had an 8-0 run in the middle of the first half to build a double-digit lead, and with their advantage at 10, they closed the first 20 minutes with seven straight points to take a 41-24 lead.

Ian Clark led a balanced Belmont attack with 18 points. Trevor Noack and J.J. Mann each scored 17 and Kerron Johnson finish...

ATHENS, Ohio – Ohio’s defense clamped down on Eastern Michigan, limiting the Eagles to 27.6 percent shooting in a runaway 73-50 victory Wednesday night at The Convo.

The Bobcats ran out to a 17-3 lead in the game’s first 10 minutes and built a 36-16 halftime lead.

Reggie Keely went 8 of 12 and scored 20 points, while D.J. Cooper had 16 points, 10 assists and five steals for the Bobcats (20-6, 11-1 Mid-American Conference).

J.R. Sims was the only player for Eastern Michigan (12-14, 5-7 M...