Tonight, the Cats take on the Ottawa University Braves in their first exhibition game of the season. Before tonight’s 7 p.m. tip on SEC Network Plus (online only!), let’s learn a few things about these black and gold Braves from Ottawa.This is the Ottawa in Kansas, not Canada
Common mistake. Ottawa University is in Ottawa, Kansas, a town along the Marais des Cygnes River with a population of 12,649. (Marais des Cynges means “Marsh of the Swans” in French.) Only 630 students attend Ottawa University, making it one of the smallest schools Kentucky has played, surely. The school was founded in 1865 as a Baptist missionary school to help children in the Ottawa Indian tribe. Eventually, it became…
