Monday, March 14, 2005

We are the champions!

The Ohio men’s basketball team (21-10) earned the right to be part of March Madness '05 by defeating Buffalo 80-79 in overtime Saturday night in the finals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament. It is significant that while Ohio has made it to the NCAA tournament after 10 years, no other MAC teams were selected in the 65-team field this year, with Miami (OH) being a notable exception. Click here to see the complete NCAA Tournament bracket.

This coming Friday, the thirteenth-seeded Bobcats will play fourth-seeded Florida (23-7) in the first round of the Syracuse Regional portion of the NCAA Tournament. Historically, the Bobcats and the Gators are 1-1. The last time the two teams met was in 1978 when the Gators won 96-61 at home, with the previous game having won by the Bobcats 38-29 at home, way back in 1926-27.

Go Bobcats!

6 comments:

dev2r said...

Boy, your conference must really suck :p
Big 12, baby!

Anonymous said...

alas.They lost to florida.
But we can take heart in the fact that we have the 2 best freshmen in the conference and the next trip to the NCAA tournament wont be after another 11 yrs.

anantha said...

@ Shashi.. Ya man.. was following it over on ESPN's webpage :(

F e r r a r i said...

Nothing related to this post. But posted lyrics of nenjamellam song :-)

Anonymous said...

adhellam seri...

why dont you blog about cricket nowadays???

anantha said...

@ Prabhu: Thanx ma...

@ Anon: Just a concious attempt to stay off cricket and to stay focussed instead on other pressing things happening / not happening right now...