CLEVELAND – Jeff Boals and the Bobcats danced on the court, and next week, they will be dancing in the NCAA Tournament.

Ohio completed a dominant run through the Mid-American Conference tournament Saturday night with an 84-69 victory against Buffalo in the title game to clinch a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2012.

As he does after every win, Boals, in just his second year as coach, led the Bobcats in a celebration dance, this time on the floor of Rocket Mortgage Fiel...

CLEVELAND – Jason Preston and Ben Vander Plas combined for 53 points to help Ohio knock off Mid-American Conference regular season champion Toledo 87-80 in the semifinals of the conference tournament Friday evening at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

Preston scored 27 points with five assists and five rebounds, while Vander Plas had 26 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Dwight Wilson III added a double-double of 12 points and 12 rebounds.

No. 5 seed Ohio (15-7) led by as many as 18 point...

CLEVELAND – Questions surrounded both Ohio and Kent State regarding which players would be available in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference men’s basketball tournament Thursday afternoon at Rocket Mortgage Field House.

It turned out the Golden Flashes were down two starters while the Bobcats were at nearly fully strength, and it showed in Ohio’s 85-63 rout.

Kent State played without All-MAC first-team forward Danny Pippen, who had missed the team’s final regular season game, f...

ATHENS – Ohio’s six-game winning streak came to a screeching halt with an 86-66 loss to Buffalo on Saturday at The Convo.

Josh Mballa scored 19 of his 23 points in the first half when the Bulls (12-7, 10-5 Mid-American Conference) built a 52-32 advantage. David Nickelberry had 16 points, and Jayvon Graces finished with 12 points, seven assists and five rebounds.

Ben Roderick paced the Bobcats (13-7, 9-5 MAC) with 15 points. Jason Preston had 10 points, six assists and five rebounds but als...

ATHENS – Back to full strength, Ohio rolled to its sixth straight victory and clinched a spot in the Mid-American Conference tournament, beating Eastern Michigan 86-67 on Thursday afternoon at The Convo.

After missing Tuesday’s win against Akron, Jason Preston was back in the starting lineup and nearly delivered a triple-double with eight points, 12 assists and nine rebounds. Dwight Wilson III was back, too, coming off the bench and putting up 16 points on 7-of-7 shooting with six rebounds in...

ATHENS – Nothing could stop Ohio in its return to the court after a three-week break because of COVID-19 issues.

The Bobcats showed no signs of rust and overcame the absences of its two leading scorers while blowing out one of the Mid-American Conference’s top teams, Akron, 90-73, on Tuesday afternoon in the 700th men's basketball game at The Convo.

Ohio (12-6, 8-4 MAC) had not played since Feb. 2 but extended its winning streak to five games by avenging an earlier 20-point loss to the Zip...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – Six players scored in double figures, and Ohio picked up its first road win at Central Michigan in eight years with an 83-69 victory Tuesday night at McGuirk Arena.

Jason Preston led the Bobcats in their fourth straight win with 17 pounds, 11 rebounds and six assists, and Dwight Wilson III had a double-double of 14 pounds and 10 boards.

Ohio (11-6, 7-4 Mid-American Conference) led 32-20 late in the first half, saw that advantage shrink to four points by halftime and...

AMHERST, N.Y. – Dwight Wilson III scored on a putback with 25 seconds remaining, and Ohio held off Buffalo 76-75 on Friday night at Alumni Arena.

Wilson, who scored a game-high 21 points, grabbed Ben Vander Plas’ miss and put it in off the backboard. Vander Plas blocked Jeenathan Williams’ shot, and Wilson recovered and was fouled. He missed on the front end of the one-and-one with 11 seconds to go, and Ronaldo Segu missed a highly contested 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Ben Roderick added 17 p...

ATHENS – Freshman Mark Sears continued to impress with a career-high 21 points as Ohio ran away with an easy 81-58 victory against Western Michigan on Tuesday night at The Convo.

Dwight Wilson III had 19 points and eight rebounds, and Ben Vander Plas and Jason Preston each had 11 points. Preston added 10 rebounds, five assists and three steals.

Western Michigan (2-10, 1-8 Mid-American Conference) led for the last time at 19-17, but a Sears jumper tied the score at 19, and a Wilson basket p...

ATHENS – Jason Preston posted his second career triple-double and the third in program history as Ohio defeated Ball State 85-77 on Saturday afternoon at The Convo.

It was not a good shooting day for Preston, who was 3 of 16, but he finished with 11 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds. He added three steals.

"It's one of those deals you always talk about where if you don't shoot the ball well, you can still do a lot of other things," Ohio coach Jeff Boals said. "(Preston's) impact for us is...