Bob Knight, who started his college coaching career at Army and led the Black Knights to four NIT appearances in six seasons, has been selected for induction into the Army Sports Hall of Fame.
Knight attended Ohio State and was a member of the Buckeye team that won the NCAA championship in 1960. After graduating with a degree in history and government, Knight was an assistant coach at Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio) High School for one year before entering the U.S. Army. He was assigned to assist coach Tates Locke at West Point, and when Locke became head coach at Miami (Ohio) University in 1965, Knight was named to succeed him at age 24.
Knight, who holds the all-time record for wins in men’s Division I college basketball with 902, led Army to a 102-50 record before leaving for Indiana.
Ohio State men’s lacrosse senior attackman Kevin Buchanan was drafted fifth overall in the Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft held Wednesday night at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. Buchanan, a second team All-American in 2008, was selected by the Los Angeles Riptide, who already have former Buckeyes Greg Bice (2001-04) and Anthony Kelly (2000-03) on their roster.
Buchanan, a native of Cockeysville, Md., and the 2008 Great Western Lacrosse League Player of the Year, ended his career second all-time in scoring at Ohio State with 175 points. He is fourth in OSU history with 78 career assists and ninth with 97 career goals. He led the Buckeyes in goals (44) and points (76) in 2008 as he earned first-team all-conference honors for the third-consecutive season and ranked in the Top 10 in the NCAA in goals, assists and points per game. Buchanan wrapped up his career on a 46-game point streak, including a 26-game goal-scoring streak.
In 2008, the Buckeyes were 11-6 and reached the quarterfinal round of the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history. The squad, ranked third nationally in scoring offense, shared the GWLL title with a 4-1 mark in conference play.
Six former Ohio State men’s golfers have advanced to sectional qualifying for the 2008 U.S. Open, held this year June 12-15 at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Calif. The six golfers moved on to sectional qualifying June 2 in Columbus at either Ohio State’s Scarlet Course or Double Eagle Golf Club.
Kevin Hall, the Big Ten individual champion in 2004, earned medalist honors by firing a 5-under 67 at the Maketewah Country Club in Cincinnati. Just behind Hall in second place was former teammate and 2005 graduate Scott Anderson. The former All-Big Ten golfer was one stroke back with a score of 68.
Mike Austin, a 2001 grad, played his qualifying round at Eagle Eye Golf Club in Bath, Mich. He shot a 70, one shot off the pace, to finish second and move on to sectional qualifying.
Stephen Gangluff advanced to sectional qualifying with a round of 73 on the Creek Course at the Hammock Dunes Club in Palm Coast, Fla.
Chris Smith, former All-America selection and uncle of current Buckeye Brad Smith, shot a 71 at the Dye Preserve Club in Jupiter, Fla.
Ryan Armour, a 1999 graduate and former All-American, also will be competing in sectional qualifying. Because of his PGA TOUR status, he did not have to go through the round of local qualifying.
Former Buckeye, and current US Men’s Senior National Team member, Raj Bhavsar, finished 5th in the all around with a two day score of 178.25 at the 2008 VISA Championships on Saturday.
Alexy Bilozertchev, whom is the son of Ohio State Assistant Coach Dmitri Bilozertchev, completed the VISA championships in 15th with an all around score of 171.65, and placed 10th on the pommel horse and vault.
Former Buckeye Morgan Hamm captured his third career floor national title with a acore of 31.35 at the 2008 VISA Championships and captured a spot in the US trials. He notched a Top 10 finish on all 4 events in which he competed.
Former Buckeye Paul Hamm, despite breaking his hand during his parellel bar routine on the first day of competition, also qualified for US trials. He held a large lead in the all around competition in the VISA championships. He nabbed first on floor, tied with his brother, first on pommel horse and on high bar all on day 1.
Paul & Morgan Hamm are trained by Ohio State Head Coach Miles Avery and are hoping to make it to their 3rd Olympic Games.
Former Buckeye Blaine Wilson dropped out of the competition after two rotations and announced his retirement from the sport. Wilson served as a volunteer assistant coach for Ohio State in 2008 while attempting to make an historic 4th Olympic Game appearance.
For the first time in Ohio State history the Men’s Buckeye Lacrosse team advances into the second round of the NCAA Tournament after a 15-7 win against number 8 ranked Cornell.
This weekend’s game had an unusual but momentous start. Ohio State goalie Stefan Schroder put up the first point of the game by scoring on Cornell minutes into the fist quarter. His goal set a high intensity mindset for his fellow teammates that lasted throughout the entire game.
Stefan’s goal made the number 1 highlight on ESPN’s Sport Center, and the seventh best for the week, along with it holding the spot of “Play of the Day” on CNN.
This Sunday the Buckeyes travel back to Ithaca, NY to take on No. 1 seed Duke in the NCAA Quarterfinals.
The baseball jersey – No. 13 – of Marty Karow, a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and a 25-year coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team, was retired Saturday, May 10 by the athletics department…33 years to the date after his last home game as Ohio State coach.
Karow, a 1927 Ohio State graduate, seven-time Buckeye letterman (three each in football and baseball and one in basketball) and 1926 football captain and All-American, returned to Ohio State in 1951 after a successful coaching career at Texas, Navy and Texas A&M.
In his first season at the helm of the Ohio State baseball program, Karow led the Buckeyes to a conference-best record of 10-2 (23-15 overall) and their first appearance at the College World Series. Ohio State would make three more trips to the CWS under Karow, capturing the coveted national title in 1966.
After finishing as the national runners-up in 1965, falling to Arizona State, 2-1, Ohio State convincingly defeated Oklahoma State, 8-2, to bring home the program’s first national title in 1966 with a 27-6-1 record. Steve Arlin, Chuck Brinkman, Russ Nagelson, Bo Rein and Ray Shoup were all chosen as All-College World Series selections. As a team, the 1966 national champion Buckeyes posted the lowest earned run average in Ohio State history with a 2.11 ERA.
The Buckeyes won a total of five conference titles with Karow at the helm, including three consecutive crowns in 1965, 1966 and 1967. In all, the legendary coach led Ohio State to 16 Top 3 finishes in the Big Ten and, at the time of his retirement in 1975, he owned the school record for all-time wins with 479. His 25 years served as head coach are the most of any Ohio State baseball coach in the first 125 years of the program.
Karow retired with a .583 overall winning percentage, a mark that included a win in his last home game as coach: 1-0 over Michigan on May 10, 1975. He passed away in 1986, three months shy of his 82nd birthday.
In the summer of 1967, Karow was selected as one of three USA Baseball Team coaches. Team USA won gold that year in the Pan American games by becoming the first U.S. team to defeat Cuba in international competition. It was one of Karow’s proudest moments as a coach.
Karow was represented at the jersey retirement ceremony by a contingent of his former players including Ray Shoup, Arnold Chonko, Bruce Heine, Dick Ernst, Richard Clouse and Dick Finn, an Ohio State captain and assistant coach under Karow who took over as head coach for 12 seasons following Karow’s retirement.
Karow’s jersey number, and the retired jersey numbers of Fred Taylor (#27) and Steve Arlin (#22), are now permamently displayed at Bill Davis Stadium on the right field wall and also on the “arches” on the stadium concourse.
Team USA is well-represented with a host of Chicago Storm and Major Indoor Soccer League players as they spend this week in Fortaleza, Brazil, playing multiple exhibition matches against Brazilian club teams.
Storm representatives on the U.S. Futsal’s trip include goalkeeper and Fort Wayne, Ind., native Jeff Richey, midfielder Andy Rosenband (Former Buckeye - led in points in 2001 & 2002) of Hammond, Ind., and midfielder Matthew Stewart of El Paso, Texas. Head coach Keith Tozer of the Milwaukee Wave named 14 players for the trip.
The Brazilian trip is a tune-up for the CONCACAF Futsal Championship, which opens June 3 in Guatemala. The U.S. is in Group B with Haiti, Panama and Costa Rica. The top three teams in the regional tournament qualify for the FIFA Futsal World Cup, which runs Sept. 30 to Oct. 19 in Brazil.
Futsal features four field players and a goalkeeper on each team. Unlike the MISL, Futsal has no walls, the ball is smaller and has less bounce than traditional soccer balls, and the goals are much smaller. The game was invented in Brazil, and it is sanctioned by FIFA as the only form of international indoor soccer.
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