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<\/p>\n FOLLOW OHIO MEN’S BASKETBALL:\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n ATHENS, Ohio\u00a0\u2013 The Ohio men’s basketball team\u00a0(15-16, 9-9 MAC)\u00a0played its final game in the Convocation Center for the 2025-26 season Friday night\u00a0(March 6), hosting\u00a0No. 19\u00a0Miami (31-0, 18-0 MAC) for another edition of the\u00a0‘Battle of the Bricks’. The final could not be decided in regulation, as it\u00a0went\u00a0into\u00a0overtime before Miami prevailed, 110-108.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n “Our fans and our crowd were unbelievable,” Ohio\u00a0head\u00a0coach Jeff Boals<\/a> said. “The energy they brought was awesome all\u00a0game. We want to shout out to all our students who stayed before leaving for spring break. It was a fun game to coach and a fun game to play. Obviously, we came up a little\u00a0short, but\u00a0give Miami credit.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Ohio\u00a0made\u00a037 field goals at a 48.7\u00a0percent\u00a0rate. The team had one of its best three-point shooting nights, tying its season high with 14 on 43.8\u00a0percent\u00a0shooting beyond the arc. The Bobcats tallied 33 rebounds and scored 12 buckets off assists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Two different Bobcats recorded 30 or more points, with senior guard Jackson Paveletzke<\/a>\u00a0(Kimberly, Wisc.) leading the way with a career-high 37 points.\u00a0Paveletzke\u00a0would also lead the team with six total assists. Redshirt junior forward Javan Simmons<\/a> (Columbus, Ohio) tallied exactly 30 points and led the team with nine rebounds. Senior forward Aidan Hadaway<\/a> (Lafayette, Ga.) recorded 20 points with five rebounds and a team-leading three blocks. Senior guard Dior Conners<\/a> (Columbus, Ohio) also scored in double figures with 10 points and four rebounds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n On the Bobcats’ first possession, Simmons set the Convocation Center crowd into a frenzy when he opened the scoring with a fadeaway jumper inside the paint. Simmons kept making highlight plays in the game’s opening minutes as he recorded\u00a0a steal\u00a0and a three, each earning a roar from the home crowd.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Ohio took a 12-11 lead after Hadaway tallied an offensive rebound and found himself open from beyond the arc for a three. A little over two minutes later, Hadaway did the same, knocking down a three, this time to bring Ohio back to within one of the RedHawks at 16-15. Soon after, the lead swung back in the Bobcats’ favor when Simmons powered his way to the basket for\u00a0two.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Bobcats and RedHawks traded baskets for a bulk of the first half, with neither being able to build a substantial lead. With seven minutes to play in the first half, the two were deadlocked at 25.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Miami built its lead to as many as 10 with under three to play in the half, but Ohio responded in a big way with Conners knocking down back-to-back threes to make it a 54-48 game at the half.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The RedHawks’ lead grew to 11 early in the second half, but a three-pointer by Simmons, followed by a\u00a0Paveletzke\u00a0three-point play inside, brought the Bobcats and the crowd right back into the game. After a successful free-throw attempt, the Miami lead was just five at 61-56.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Bobcats kept chipping away in the half, bringing the deficit all the way down to one point after\u00a0Paveletzke\u00a0converted two technical free throws and then hit a fadeaway jumper right after\u00a0making\u00a0it 68-67 Miami.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n