Ohio

I don't know anything about Ohio. I know they are pretty good, like 6-1 or something like that. Offer from WSU game stands...

...if anyone is thirsty before the game stop by the Alumni Relations Office at 6625 N Portsmouth before the game. It's officially Pilot Nation night over here (again). Maybe PilotNut will make an appearance. I'll be here around 5:30p. See you guys then...

Woodless! wrote:I don't know anything about Ohio. I know they are pretty good, like 6-1 or something like that.

OK, Woodless, I’ll pick up the ball and run with it…..

Ohio University, is #89 in the nation (UP is #175) and they’re a darned good team.

As oldtimer said in a recent post: It doesn’t get any easier with Ohio coming to town Saturday, they are a legit MAC team and challenged Louisville until the end. At least we will be at home, something we haven’t enjoyed in a while.

The Mid Atlantic Conference is ranked 16 out of 33 conferences; the WCC has dropped a spot to 11/33. Ohio is ranked 3/12 in the MAC behind Kent St. and Buffalo.

Ohio is, as you said, 6-1, their wins are against:

#313 Tennessee Martin at home 74-65
#136 Lamar at home 85-78 in OT
#198 Arkansas St. at home 69-54
# 67 Marshall on the road 70-68
#188 Morgan St. at home 61-53
#121 Oakland on the road 84-82

Their only loss was to #9 Louisville 54-59 at Louisville.

Their strength of schedule is 123/345 (ours is still 4/345) and they are favored to beat us 72-70 with a 57% probability.

I may add some individual players to watch later, unless someone else would like to jump in.

*all rankings come from kenpom.com.

DoubleDipper wrote:

I may add some individual players to watch later, unless someone else would like to jump in.

No, no, let me jump in here:

Ohio U. is led by junior PG #5 D.J. Cooper, a former freshman of the year in the MAC and current first team all MAC player. He’s about Tim’s size, is just an average shooter, but is so quick that he’s fouled a lot and shoots 70% at the line while averaging over 14 points and 6 assists per game.

Their junior SG is #3 Walter Offutt a transfer from Ohio State averaging over 12 ppg.

Their inside points and rebounds come from junior #30 Reggie Keely and junior #23 Ivo Baltic; both are averaging around 10 points and 6 boards per game; and both are 6’8”.

Ohio is 234/345 in the nation with regard to player experience, averaging 1.46 years; UP is 320/345, averaging 1.03 years.

You’ll notice their top four players are juniors and their fifth is a sophomore. We get to play these guys next year in Athens, Ohio!

Yeah, but what about their mascot? It is mascot night.

up7587 wrote:Yeah, but what about their mascot? It is mascot night.

You know, I actually did think about mentioning they were the "Bobcats," but I have a hunch their travel budget will not allow Bob to join in the merryment on Saturday night.

You'll find a caricature of Bob and pictures of some of his friends here:http://www.ohiobobcats.com/view.gal?id=5603

We need to convert those Telle Tubby guys in to ninjas equipped complete with throwing stars and blow dart guns. Wait did ninjas use blow darts? Either way could be an effective way to disrupt their free throw attempts.

DoubleDipper wrote:and pictures of some of his friends here:http://www.ohiobobcats.com/view.gal?id=5603

Thank you for that



I would like to see retro Wally at mascot night!

Woodless! wrote:Maybe PilotNut will make an appearance.

Well I never could resist a good cameo...

PilotNut wrote:

Woodless! wrote:Maybe PilotNut will make an appearance.

Well I never could resist a good cameo...

...or a free beer

blacksheep wrote:...or a free beer

Well, that too...

Ohio fan here. Sounds like our Portland Area Alumni Group will have about 50 Bobcat fans in attendance. (Hopefully the football team can get that many when they play in the Potato Bowl in Boise next week) I was kind of surprised to see us playing in Portland, without another West Coast game to go along with it. Most Bobcat fans are thinking this will be a good game.

We are 1-1 against Portland all time, both games in Portland. Portland won 68-66 during the 1999-2000 season and Ohio winning 67-65 in 1967-1968.

We are members of the Mid-American Conference. We won our conference tournament and beat Georgetown in the first round of the NCAA two years ago. As mentioned above we are a young team, with no seniors. We actually have some depth for the first time in a while, usually going 10 deep.

DJ Cooper #5 is a lot of fun to watch. His shot selection is questionable at times, but he’s lightning quick. He finished in the top 10 in steals nationally last year I believe.

Besides the other players double dipper mentioned, Sophomore Nick Kellogg (Son of Clark Kellogg) is a good defensive guard with some range. Freshman Stevie Taylor also looks like he will be something special.

Will there be anywhere we can watch the game on-line?

Anyway good luck, and feel free to stop by bobcatattack.com and say hi if you'd like.

Eagle66 wrote:

Will there be anywhere we can watch the game on-line?

http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/up.portal#

Gets you live video/live audio/ live stats.


It works on portable devices as well (iPhone/iPad)

Enjoy the game.

Our cheerleaders look conflicted. Purple tops, green and white pom poms...

green and white pom poms...

#pompomfail

They've had those all year.