The first round debuted on Georgetown in 2010, and then upset top-seeded North Carolina over Michigan in 2012 before an overtime loss that prevented them from advancing to the Midwest Regional Finals as a 13 seed . And long before that, in 1964 there was a magical run to the Midiest Regional Final.
And now the Ohio University Bobcats are back as one of the Cinderellas of this wild and wacky NCAA tournament against the fifth-seeded Creighton in the West-Regional second rounder as the 13th seed on Monday night.
With the tearful story of junior point guard Jason Preston, who lost his single mom to cancer at age 15 and came out of nowhere and a Tennessee school proper to become one of the most likely basketball stars Told Believe Prep. With 6-foot-8 forward Ben Vander Plas, whose late-game left wing dagger stood with his father Saturday night, turned Virginia into the former National Chambers and made a few hundred cheering revelations on campus court. road. Back with Jeff Bowles, the coach took coaching of his alma mater.
And where would the Bobcats have dreamed of in comparison to Hink Fieldhouse, the magical old Indiana place depicted in the inspirational “Hoosiers” movie?
Full disclosure: Although there is no cheer in the press box, I am an Ohio University grad. Now I return to my objective.
The Ohio University Alumni Association and Ohio Bobcat Club will host an online pep rally on Monday afternoon.
“Coach Bowles was talking to us last night after the game,” Vander Plas told Voice of the Bobcat Ras Eisenstein on Sunday, and he said it’s really good. He said, ‘Remember how you handle adversities, remember how to handle prosperity.’ And we were remembering what we got here.
“I’m really grateful to have so much support from the people in Athens [Ohio], Back home in Ripon [Wis.], All bobcats around the planet, just looking at all the messages and stuff is really cool, so we enjoyed that time last night, but woke up this morning ready to beat Crayton. “
The Blues have overcome a four-day suspension from coach Greg McDermott for his insensitive “stay at the plantation”, which Xavier suffered in a loss on February 27, as well as the final of the Big-Badminton tournament by Georgetown 73-48 Had a bouncing string. They can be hot and cold and live or die with the 3-point shooting of Marcus Zagrowski (41.5 percent, 208 career 3s), who accounted for 53 percent of all Creighton territory and Mitch Balock (39 percent) in the last three games. is. From Omaha).
Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, an Athens, Ohio, native, home to the university, took off on the Bobcat bandwagon when he tweeted: “How to combat those Bobcats.”
Objective effort: “How bout those Bluejays, too.”
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