OHIO RUMORS & GOSSIP

Long before he was perfecting the position of third base and smacking home runs against National League pitchers, Mike Schmidt was a college baseball player trying to win a College World Series. The former Ohio Bobcat was elected in to the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame yesterday, with the induction ceremony scheduled for next Thursday, April 17. "We couldn't be happier...

Going head-to-head with Ohio State is never an easy task on the football field. It's even tougher trying to pry fans away to watch a game that doesn't involve the Buckeyes, who have a waiting list of people just wanting the honor of paying around $750 for one season ticket. So I'm going to give pesky Ohio University and the Bobcats' ticket operations some credit for...

ATHENS, Ohio - In a few ways, Jim Christian has been here before. In six years at Kent State -- all 20-plus win seasons -- he coached his share of games against Ohio University. His first year at Kent, 2003, came as a new coach taking over a team coming off a dream season as the Flashes had advanced all the way to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. Tuesday, Christian was officially...

Illinois will announce John Groce as men's basketball coach at a press conference expected Thursday afternoon.Groce, who led Ohio University to 29 wins and took the Bobcats to the Sweet 16, where they lost in overtime to North Carolina, would earn an annual salary of at least 1.35 million and bring most of his coaching staff with him from the Mid-American Conference champion...

Illinois on Wednesday night completed a deal to hire John Groce as the team's new basketball coach, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, citing a source. A news conference will be held Thursday afternoon to confirm the 40-year-old's move from Ohio University to the Big Ten. Earlier Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Ohio University had asked its top donors...

The Chicago Tribune and CBSSports.com are reporting that Illinois has agreed to a deal with Ohio University's John Groce to replace Bruce Weber as men's basketball coach. CBSSports.com, citing an unidentified source, reports that Groce is expected to meet with his team in Athens, Ohio, Thursday and will be introduced at a news conference in Champaign later in the week. ...

The search for a new basketball coach continued Monday at the University of Illinois, with Ohio's John Groce the latest candidate to be contacted. According to CBS Sports, the 40-year-old Groce is interested in the position, which has been vacant for weeks after Illinois fired Bruce Weber. After VCU's Shaka Smart declined an offer from Illinois a week ago, Butler's...

ST. LOUIS Jon Smith doesn't consider his situation to be a new beginning, but he prepares to receive a pass during a practice at the Edward Jones Dome two games from an unlikely Final Four. He shifts his feet near the perimeter. He sizes up his target. He opens his palms and begins to yell. "Right here!" he says. "Right here! Right here!" Smith lifts the...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. It's the middle of the afternoon, on the eve of the biggest game in Ohio University basketball history, and Jim Schaus is pacing anxiously. You find the Bobcats' athletic director outside Room 175 at Edwards Jones Dome, one ear buried deep inside a smart phone. He's doing little figure eights from one side of the hall to the other, wingtips squeaking on...

The college hopping suggests that Ohio guard Walter Offutt has always had one foot out the door. The junior found his niche playing for a coach who's gotten him to commit twice. ''Obviously, I've been through a couple stops,'' Offutt said Thursday, a day before the 13th-seeded Bobcats play top-seeded North Carolina in the Midwest Regional. ''It&...

The darlings of the NCAA tournament celebrated their trip to the round of 16 by chanting: ''We are Ohio!'' Those Ohio Bobcats are only one-fourth of the state's amazing March. Beware the Buckeyes - all of them. Ohio is the first state to send four teams to the NCAA's round of 16 - the Bobcats, Ohio State, the University of Cincinnati and Xavier. Ohio teams...

The Ohio Bobcats are already having a solid run in the NCAA Tournament as they  have landed their spot in the Sweet 16 when they knocked off South Florida on Sunday. The University’s President, Dr. Roderick McDavis dropped in the locker room following the victory and gave one heck of an impassioned speech. Click here to view the embedded video. via Mocksession var conf_37316...

When D.J. cooper committed to Ohio University in early 2009, he was a major recruit heading to a mid-major program. The then 5-foot-9, 140 pound senior at Chicago's Seton Academy was listening to sales pitches from coaches at schools in the Big Ten and Big 12 among other high-level universities. Yet, when it came to decision time, the diminutive point guard chose to attend a...

The college basketball world is still reeling from a flurry of upsets over the weekend, including a pair of double-digit seeds making it through to the Sweet 16. North Carolina State started things off with a big win over Georgetown early in the day and Ohio University finished things off later in the night with by taking down No. 12 South Florida. Fans and analysts -- like Jay Bilas...

RankPreviousTeam (Record)11Columbus Northland (4-1)The Vikings dismantled Linden McKinley on Friday, 88-28 behind 21 points from Devon Scott. On Saturday, Northland ripped No. 11 Toledo St. Johns 89-57 at the Scholastic Play-by-Play Classic. Jordan Potts had 23 points, Scott added 20, and Jalen Robinson chipped in with 19. All five starters scored in double figures.22 Dayton Dunbar...