Buckeye Blogger NetworkThe Buckeyes take on 4-4 Winthrop University from the Big South conference in their next match-up and are on a roll since losing to Duke. The Eagles are on a little roll themselves having dispatched the other “Ohio” team as our least favorite buffoon from up north likes to say. The Eagles beat the Bobcats 50-49 with a late push and two final second free throws from their star player. Let’s take a look at the school from Rock Hill, SC.
4-4 overall and defeated the Ohio Bobcats this past Saturday
| School: | Winthrop University |
| Location: | Rock Hill, South Carolina |
| Founded: | 1886 – Veritas cum liberate “Truth with Liberty” |
| Student Population: | 6,170 |
| School Type: | Public |
| Division: | NCAA |
| Conference: | Big South |
| Stadium: | Winthrop Coliseum |
| Seating: | 6,100 |
| Built: | October 1982 |
| Head Coach: | Pat Kelsey(Xavier 98) First Season as a head coach |
| Experience & Accomplishments | Before stepping away from basketball following the 2010-11 season, Kelsey was the associate head coach at his alma mater Xavier U. where he spent two seasons. Prior to that he cut his teeth coaching under the late and great Skip Prosser at Wake Forrest and then Dino Gaudio. |
| Program History | The University’s most well-known athletic team is the Men’s basketball team which has earned a berth in nine NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournaments since 1999. Additionally, they have won the Big South Conference Championship in 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010. 6 of the 8 Men’s Basketball team’s championships and national rankings came during Gregg Marshall’s tenure as head coach. Marshall left Winthrop to become the head coach at Wichita State University. |
