Ohio-Georgetown: Bobcats Pull Off Upset of the Season, Beat Hoyas

The party in Athens can be heard from miles around and will probably go on until they play Tennessee Saturday.

Nobody gave this team a snowball's chance to come within sniffing distance of beating the mighty Hoyas of Georgetown, yet the green and white are celebrating their first NCAA Tournament win since 1983.

A team that could only be described as, at best, the other, other, other, other basketball team in Ohio, after Ohio State, Xavier, and Cincinnati, just showed that they can hang with the big boys.

The Hoyas were too big for the Bobcats to beat, yet Ohio held their own, grabbing 24 rebounds to Georgetown's 31.

Georgetown was on too much of a hot streak to be cooled down, and yes, they did shoot a respectable 50 percent, but the Bobcats shot an astonishing 58 percent from the field and scorched home 13 threes.

ESPN's Joe Lunardi said before the tournament of Ohio, "What an achievement to make the field, but I don't see any way that Ohio U gets through with a first round upset."

The Bobcats did just that and threw the words right back in Lunardi's face with every three-pointer they drained.

They were confident, but not cocky, that they had a chance in this game and played with the poise you would not expect a team that was clobbered by 25 by Pittsburgh in December to have.

An old basketball saying that clearly defines the success of teams in the tournament says that if you live by the three, you die by the three, and it seems that OU has showed the nation exactly how a team can live by the three, even if they are dead before the tip-off.

Not once did I think that this ragtag bunch of scrappy players could come together to beat the giant that is Georgetown, yet for the whole game I sat on the edge of my seat, refusing to get up because it might ruin the team's mojo, and I believed.

They stunned the MAC world when they beat the regular season MAC champion Kent State, they angered the kids in Miami when they beat their rival RedHawks, they went on to upset the MAC Tournament hometown favorites Akron, and now they have showed the nation what they are capable of after handing Georgetown one of their most surprising losses in a while.

The most astonishing thing about this team is that it is so young. The only senior on this team is big man Kenneth Van Kempen. Armon Bassett and DeVaughn Washington are juniors, and little D.J. Cooper is the MAC Freshman of the Year.  This team is surprising this year, but next year they will be downright good.

It completely screwed up my bracket, and I don't care, because this is what college basketball is all about.

So watch out Tennessee, because Cinderella has her dancing shoes on, and she's looking to boogie the night away.

If they do manage to boogie their way past Tennessee, we could be looking at an OU-OSU Sweet 16 matchup. How's that for in-state pandemonium waiting to happen?