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Topic: 2024 Fall season

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100%Cat
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2024 Fall season

Posted: 8/28/2024 9:43:07 AM

Did anyone else make it out to the exhibition match vs Cleveland St last week? There are lots of new faces on the roster this season. The exhibition was pretty tough to read. They played 4 sets. Ohio dominated the first set and won convincingly. The second set was very tight, with Cleveland St taking the set. Set 3 was very one-sided towards Cleveland St. The 4th set, Ohio came back and played strong and won. Looking at Cleveland St's results from last year, they were basically a slightly above .500 Horizon League team. I saw the MAC coaches poll on IG this week, and they had Ohio #5 behind Buffalo, Ball St, BGSU, and WMU.

It will be interesting to see how it goes this weekend in games that count. Xavier (18-12 last year), App St (14-15 last year), and Wright St (21-11, 15-3 in conference in 2023) play in Athens this weekend.

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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 8/31/2024 1:00:56 PM

Sweep at home vs a name team in Xavier. That's a feel good start. Hopefully the match was well-promoted and there was a solid crowd.

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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 9/3/2024 3:59:46 PM

I thought the ladies played well over the weekend. They came out of the tourney 2-1 with wins over Xavier and App St. Wright St never lost a set (I believe) the entire weekend, and Ohio fell to them in the finale. The Cats showed a lot of guts fighting back from a large deficit in the 3rd set and served twice for the set, up 24-23 and then 25-24, to ultimately lose to the Raiders 28-26. Lots of youth played a lot, so I'm sure there will be ups and downs. Hopefully the team gets and stays healthy and we see what they can do at full strength this season!

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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 10/14/2024 1:32:07 PM

Bobcats have started 3-3 in the MAC after what most would say was a disappointing OOC season.

Andrew Ruck
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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 10/29/2024 8:43:33 AM

Heartbreaker to end a 3 match win streak, losing 17-15 in the 5th set. Amazingly Ohio is all the way down in 8th place with their 6-5 record. The bottom 4 teams are all pretty crappy, and Ohio only has 1 match remaining against any of them. 6 matches are against CMU, BG & Buffalo who may be the 3 best teams.

Taking all that together, it seems highly unlikely Ohio can obtain a top 6 spot to make the tourney.

Andrew Ruck
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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 11/3/2024 7:46:13 PM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

Carlson just needs time.

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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 11/4/2024 10:41:24 AM

BillyTheCat wrote:

Andrew Ruck wrote:

Carlson just needs time.

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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 11/4/2024 5:24:08 PM

Time to pack his bags?

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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 11/9/2024 12:43:30 PM

It seems like I say this every year, but it's a really young team. Only two seniors will walk for senior day today, and only 1 of the 2 plays a lot. We're running out a lot of freshmen and sophomores. As of today, Ohio stands at 6 in the MAC, and the top 6 make the MAC tourney. The game today against Buffalo (who is a game ahead of us) is obviously huge. There have been ups and downs, but I do feel like this young core has a lot of talent.

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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 11/10/2024 10:58:37 PM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

Not so Fast sir! After a 4 game winning streak, the Bobcats not only find themselves in a tie for 5th place, they have a 2 game lead on the 7th spot Toledo.

BUT - They have top dog BG (14-2) for the final 2 matches while Toledo has lowly Kent (1-15). Toledo & Ohio split this season, so I have no idea what the tiebreaker would be should they both end up 10-8.

I was in attendance Saturday, they looked good. Worth noting that their last 3 losses were all 5 set losses while 8 wins in that same span only 1 of which was 5 sets. Hope they can find a way to squeek in because it'd be nice to see what a team with their upward trajectory can do in the tourney.

Andrew Ruck
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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 11/16/2024 11:36:18 PM

As expected, Ohio lost both final matches to BG, who finishes 16-2...and Toledo won both final matches to Kent who finishes 1-17. Ohio & Toledo finish tied for 6th at 10-8. I do not know what occurred in the tiebreaker (they split head to head) but Toledo got the berth and Ohio did not. This is really a shame as I think Ohio not only got better thru the season but also experienced some bad luck and tough losses. Even the final match today went to a 5th set but Ohio couldn't close it out. Ohio was swept just 2 times all season. Toledo was swept in 4 of their final 7 matches. I think the rest of the MAC tourney field is happy to see Ohio fall short.

2 Contributing Seniors head out but overall a very strong nucleus should be returning for next year.

Andrew Ruck
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RE: 2024 Fall season

Posted: 11/18/2024 11:58:19 AM

Watched the BG tilt on ESPN+. Thought our gals gave it their all. Came up a little short. As young as the team is, I think that things are looking up for next year.

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