After a year where the Ohio Bobcat football team saw a special season derailed by injuries, they didn't take any chances during the 2013 spring practice schedule.

Ohio University senior guard D.J. Cooper continued his string of impressive performances in preparation for the NBA Draft last week at the prestigious Portsmouth Invitational in Portsmouth, Va., according to a news release from Ohio Athletic Media Relations.

Thomas Chaillou, 28, of Lexington, Ky., placed first in the 2013 Athens Marathon, with a time of 2:35:07, crossing the finish line Sunday morning at Pruitt Field.

Pat Summitt, the former head women's basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, won eight national championships and 16 Southeastern Conference Championships in her 38 years with the Lady Vols. She finished her career with 1,048 wins, a .841 winning percentage and the honor of being a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

The Ohio Bobcat men's basketball team's 2012-13 season came to a close March 19 with a 61-57 loss to the Denver Pioneers in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament. That defeat also marked the end of an illustrious era of Bobcat men's basketball with the departures of seniors D.J. Cooper, Walter Offutt, Reggie Keely and Ivo Baltic.

The Peden Stadium weight room was packed, but no one made a sound. Teammates, friends and family gathered as senior linebacker Jelani Woseley stepped up to the vertical jump station.

In their first National Invitation Tournament appearance since 1995, the sixth-seeded Ohio Bobcat men's basketball team fell 61-57 to the Denver Pioneers in a down-to-the-wire game during the tournam

What was a mostly impressive season for the Ohio Bobcat men's basketball team came to a humiliating end at the hands of none other than the Akron Zips in Saturday night's Mid-American Conference Championship game, with the all-important automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line.

In a rematch of last season's thrilling 64-63 Ohio defeat of Akron in the Mid-American Conference Championship game Saturday night, the top-seeded Zips earned the automatic NCAA Tournament bid this time around.

Next up a rematch Saturday night with Akron for the MAC championship. The Ohio Bobcat men's basketball team assured the rematch with the Zips after beating the Western Michigan Broncos Friday night in Cleveland.