The 2011–12 Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team represented

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during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bobcats, led by fourth year head coach

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, played their home games at the Convocation Center and are members of the East Division of the

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. They finished the season 29–8, 11–5 in MAC play to finish in third place in the East Division. They were champions of the MAC Basketball tournament and earned an automatic bid into the 2012 NCAA tournament where the 13th seeded Bobcats defeated

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in the second round and South Florida in the third round to advance to school's first ''Sweet Sixteen'' since 1964. They lost in the ''Sweet Sixteen'' to top-seed

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in overtime. After the season Groce accepted the head coach position at

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Roster

Coaching staff

Preseason

The preseason coaches' poll and league awards were announced by the league office on October 28, 2015. Ohio was picked third in the MAC East.

Preseason poll

''(First place votes in parenthesis)''

East Division

# Kent State 132 (16) #

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104 (8) # Ohio 94 # 80 # Buffalo 62 #

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West Division

# 128 (14) # Ball State 111 (9) # 92 (1) # Toledo 76 # 59 #

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Tournament champs

Kent State (12), Akron (6), Ball State (3), Western Michigan (2), Central Michigan (1)

Preseason All-MAC

Source

Schedule

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Statistics

Team Statistics

:''Final 2011–12 Statistics'' Source

Player statistics

Source

Awards and honors

All-MAC Awards

Source

National Awards

References

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