Coach Tim O'shea has received two more verbal commitments for the 2003-04 recruiting class. Find out more on the BobcatAttack.com basketball recruiting page.

Basketball season is right around the corner and Rollie Merriman found some of the 2002-03 Ohio Bobcat squad getting in some practice at a dimly-lit Convo.

For the first time in school history, an Atlantic Coast Conference school will visits Athens as Virginia takes on the Bobcats Feb. 26th in the Convo. The game with the Cavaliers highlights the home portion of Ohio's 2002-03 basketball schedule announced today. Ohio starts the season with five road games before its December 20th home opener versus Navy. After a trip to Madison to tangle with Wisconsin, the 'Cats return home for New Year's Eve afternoon battle with St. Bonaventure.

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Ohio head basketball coach Tim O'Shea announced today that Old Dominion's 6-11, 220-pound sophomore center Clay McGowen will be transferring to Ohio University. McGowen averaged 5.3 points and 5.2 rebounds this past year for ODU. He appeared in all of the team's 29 games and started 12.

McGowen prepped at Westerville North High School where he averaged 14.3 points and 9.3 rebounds as a senior. He was ranked by Prep Spotlight as the second best center in the state of Ohio. McGowen will have to...

Central Michigan threw the seeding out the window and beat fifth-seeded Ohio 65-56 on Ohio's home court in the first round of the MAC tournament. Ohio finished a disappointing up-and-down campaign at 17-11 (11-8 MAC), with four conference losses coming at the Convo.

12th-seeded CMU (10-18, 6-13 MAC), last season's regular season MAC champion and tournament's No. 1 seed, had struggled all season but found its game tonight with tight defense and rebounding. Ohio cut the Chippewas' lead to two...

Home-court advantage is proving to be a disadvantage for the Ohio Bobcats.

Toledo used a hanging 12-foot jumper by sophomore guard Terry Reynolds with 23 seconds left to beat Ohio 69-68 and break a 19-game, 21-year-old futility steak in the Convo. The last time Toledo won in Athens, it was 1981. The Bobcats fell for the second consecutive game on their home court.

Missing one of its top three scorers and not getting the usual punch from its other two, Ohio still managed to come back from a...