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March 17, 2008

Brown-Ohio CBI game Tuesday at 7 p.m

Brown and Ohio University will play their College Basketball Invitational first-round game tomorrow night at 7 at the 13,080-seat Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio. The Bears will practice this afternoon and leave for Boston to catch an evening flight to Columbus. A two-hour bus ride should put the team in Athens at about midnght.

The game will be broadcast on WSKO (790).

The Bears (19-9) and the Bobcats (19-12) are two of the 16 teams in the inaugural CBI going head to head with the NCAA-owned NIT.

Ohio plays in the Mid-American Conference and last made a post-season appearance in 2005, losing to Florida in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Brown's last post-season action was the 2003 NIT, an 89-73 loss to Virginia.

Tim O'Shea, an assistant at the University of Rhode Island for nine years, is finishing his seventh season as head coach of the Bobcats.

Ohio boasts all-conference forwards Leon Williams and Jerome Tillman. Williams, a senior, leads the team in scoring (16.2) and the league in rebounding (9.7). Tillman averages 13.2 points and 7.4 rebounds.

Brown will answer with all-conference guards Mark McAndrew, the Ivy League's leading scorer (16.5), and Damon Huffman, the school's career three-point leader (216) who is fifth in the league in scoring (14.9).

Posted by Mike Szostak  at 9:31 AM to College Sports | Permalink

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