Ohio Bobcats roll call

[BB Bobcat]

No. 9 seeded Cats have advanced to the MAC championship game vs Akron. Saturday. 6 pm ET. ESPN2.

Just starting a thread for all the OU alumni here to pool their good vibes.

I admit I only pay a passing interest to OU sports until they get in position to do something big, or when they are playing a big nonconference game, etc. But I'm fired up now.

 

[Football_Bat]

What happened to Kent? Are they in as an auto? (I am feeling a strong deja vu sense right now.)

 

[SalukiNC]

That Armon Bassett is pretty good. First team all Big Ten if he would have stayed....

 

[slappy4428]

Nice job by the Emoose to let Akron get into the finals... A technical foul on the coach in OT?

 

[KP]

Nice job by the Emoose to let Akron get into the finals... A technical foul on the coach in OT?

Akron played Western.

Best thing about tonight's win for the Bobcats. Jason Grunkemeyer sitting on the Miami bench watching it. TRAITOR! /still bitter about the 2001 semifinals

 

[BB Bobcat]

[obnoxiousfanboi]

DANCIN!!!!!!

[/obnoxiousfanboi]

 

[cwilson3]

Congrats from a Falcon. Impressive run.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Now they can get their rightful spot in the dance with a No. 15 seed.

 

[tmr]

If Grunk would've stayed, OU would've played in a tourney or two in my day. Those teams were always missing a shooter. D.J. Cooper is really dynamic. Hope he sticks around, unlike the last Chicago point guard who took OU to a tourney, Jeremy Fears.

 

[BB Bobcat]

Now they can get their rightful spot in the dance with a No. 15 seed.

I think OU will get a 14 or maybe even a 13. They did win 20 games and conf tourney of a mid major conference, beating two well regarded teams (Kent and Akron). I think the 15s and 16s are reserved for the little conferences.

 

[Bubbler]

OU is Haute-isized with Armon Bassett ... now playing for his 90th Division I team.

 

[KP]

Dear NCAA,

Please send the Bobcats to Providence.

Love,
Ohio fanboi in SE Mass with tickets to the Dunk

 

[BB Bobcat]

I actually live in the SF Bay area, so it would be awesome if OU got shipped out to San Jose ... except for the fact that I will be in Orlando for spring training!

Then I'm thinking they could send them to Jacksonville, and I'd possibly be able to sneak up to the game, but I'd have to compromise myself professionally. (I'm supposed to be writing some sort of Astros feature from Kissimmee that day.)

Perfect world: Send the Cats to Jacksonville, but give them the latest game possible.

I won't complain wherever they are.

 

[CitizenTino]

The Grunk 3-pointer was my indoctrination to OU basketball, as it happened my freshman year. A work assignment kept me in Columbus during the '05 title game, which was taking place just 20 minutes from my house. Never thought I'd be able to make up for missing out on that, but sitting a few rows above the OU tunnel tonight was a hell of a lot of fun.

Never saw this run coming. What a fun night.

 

[KP]

Much like Larry Hunter the Grunk 3 was my last game.

 

[Blitz]

Good job by the Bobcats.

 

[Bubbler]

Dave Jamerson weeps.

 

[Brian]

Great run by Coach Groce and the Bobcats. It's now quite clear what a Big Ten caliber player in the MAC can do at this point of the conference being watered down. Bassett eclipsed Earl Boykins' MAC tournament scoring record easily. If Gary Trent played in the MAC right now, he'd score 40 points per game. No joking.

Was at the tournament in 2005 and went down to Nashville for the Florida NCAA game. Was working tonight, so couldn't make it to Cleveland, but I'll follow the Bobcats wherever they go from here on out.

I'm hoping for New Orleans. Being put in Buffalo would bring more fans, though.

And I too admit to being an OU fanboi. I could never cover the Bobcats. It's the only team I've said I can't cover. Too much invested in them.

 

[KP]

Remember that Boykins only played three games during that run. Bassett got four.

 

[CitizenTino]

Remember that Boykins only played three games during that run. Bassett got four.

Boykins scored 89 total points in 1998.

Bassett's four tournament games: 25, 38, 28, 25.

In other words, he had the record broken after OU's first three games, and even if you discount the campus site first round game and only count the final three rounds against better competition (which Boykins faced), he would still have broken the record.