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Bobcats begin 2018-19 with new faces, mending bodies

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Ohio sophomore guard James Gollon (3) and the Bobcats opened preseason practice last week. Ohio’s exhibition game opener is on Nov. 3 against Rio Grande in the Convocation Center.

Messenger photo by Louise Fish

The Bobcats were never able to work ahead of the curve in 2017-18.

Injuries, one after the other and to seemingly every rotational player on the roster, mired Ohio in a pattern of struggle throughout the entirety of the men’s basketball season last winter.

It wasn’t dissimilar from the struggles of Sisyphus — the guy condemned to push the boulder up the hill forever in Greek mythology.