Saul Phillips was grinning like the 8-year old who broke into the cookie jar and didn’t get caught.
Teyvion Kirk propped his younger brother, Jason, on his knee and smiled as he was playfully asked a question.
And the fans? For the first time in a while they didn’t trudge out of the building shaking their heads grumpily.
After three weeks of losses, rumination, and self-flagellation, the Bobcats finally embraced joy again during a rousing 92-87 overtime win over conference-leading Bowling Green on Friday night inside a rowdy Convocation Center.
It was monster upset for Ohio (12-14, 4-10 Mid-American Conference), which snapped a six-game slide and posted a win just three days after 47-point humiliation at Buffalo.