Watch Ohio Bobcats vs. Ball State Cardinals: How to live stream, TV channel, start time for Tuesday’s NCAA Basketball game​on January 14, 2025 at 12:01 pm

How to watch Ohio vs. Ball State basketball game

​How to watch Ohio vs. Ball State basketball game   

Who’s Playing

Ball State Cardinals @ Ohio Bobcats

Current Records: Ball State 8-7, Ohio 9-6

How To Watch

• When: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET
• Where: Convocation Center — Athens, Ohio
• TV: ESPN Plus
• Follow: CBS Sports App
• Online Streaming:  Catch select College Basketball matches on Fubo (Try for free. Regional restrictions may apply.)

What to Know

Ball State is 1-9 against Ohio since January of 2019 but they’ll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. Both will face off in a Mid American battle at 7:00 p.m. ET at Convocation Center. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

On Saturday, everything went Ball State’s way against Bowling Green as Ball State made off with a 91-69 win.

Ball State’s success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Mickey Pearson Jr. led the charge by going 5 for 9 en route to 16 points plus six rebounds and two blocks. Another player making a difference was Payton Sparks, who dropped a double-double on 19 points and 13 rebounds.

Ball State was working as a unit and finished the game with 21 assists. That’s the most assists they’ve posted since back in November of 2023.

Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Ohio). They blew past N. Illinois, posting a 108-70 victory. The win was familiar territory for the Bobcats who have now won five matchups in a row.

Among those leading the charge was AJ Clayton, who went 9 for 10 from beyond the arc en route to 31 points plus two blocks. Those nine threes gave him a new career-high. Jackson Paveletzke was another key player, going 9 for 10 en route to 19 points plus five assists.

Ball State has been performing well recently as they’ve won five of their last six games, which provided a massive bump to their 8-7 record this season. As for Ohio, they pushed their record up to 9-6 with the victory, which was their 14th straight at home dating back to last season.

Some high-performance offense is likely on the agenda as both are some of the highest scoring teams in the league. Ball State hasn’t had any problem running up the score this season, having averaged 76.3 points per game. However, it’s not like Ohio struggles in that department as they’ve been averaging 80.8. With both teams so easily able to put up points, the only question left is who can run the score up higher.

Ball State came up short against Ohio when the teams last played back in February of 2024, falling 84-79. Can Ball State avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We’ll find out soon enough.

Series History

Ohio has won 9 out of their last 10 games against Ball State.

• Feb 06, 2024 – Ohio 84 vs. Ball State 79
• Mar 09, 2023 – Ohio 90 vs. Ball State 70
• Jan 10, 2023 – Ohio 76 vs. Ball State 71
• Mar 10, 2022 – Ohio 77 vs. Ball State 67
• Feb 01, 2022 – Ohio 87 vs. Ball State 63
• Jan 23, 2021 – Ohio 85 vs. Ball State 77
• Jan 02, 2021 – Ohio 78 vs. Ball State 68
• Feb 01, 2020 – Ball State 65 vs. Ohio 54
• Jan 26, 2019 – Ohio 78 vs. Ball State 74
• Jan 12, 2019 – Ohio 70 vs. Ball State 52