| Mode: | Women's Basketball |
| Year: | 2022–23 |
| Prev Year: | 2021–22 |
| Next Year: | 2023–24 |
| Team: | Ohio Bobcats |
| Conference: | Mid-American Conference |
| Short Conf: | MAC |
| Record: | 6–22 |
| Conf Record: | 4–13 |
| Head Coach: | Bob Boldon |
| Hc Year: | 10th |
| Asst Coach1: | Tavares Jackson |
| Asst Coach2: | Steph Haas |
| Asst Coach3: | Chelsea Welch |
| Stadium: | Convocation Center |
The 2022–23 Ohio Bobcats women's basketball team represented Ohio University during the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bobcats, led by tenth year head coach Bob Boldon, played their home games at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio as a member of the Mid-American Conference.[1] [2] [3] They finished 6–23 and 4–14 in the MAC play to finish tied for eleventh in the MAC. They failed to qualify for the MAC tournament.[4]
See main article: 2021–22 Ohio Bobcats women's basketball team.
They finished the regular season 15–13 and 9–10 in the MAC. They were knocked out of the MAC tournament in the quarterfinals by top-seeded Toledo and in the first round of the WNIT by South Dakota State.[5] [6] During a conference win at Central Michigan on January 15, Cece Hooks passed Caroline Mast as the leading scorer in Ohio basketball history.[7] Two games later, against Bowling Green, she passed Toldeo’s Kim Knuth as the leading scorer in MAC basketball history.[8] [9]
| Name | Alma Mater | Previous position | New position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea Welch | Wright State University | Assistant Coach (Albright) | Assistant Coach[11] |
| Kaylee Bambule | Ohio University | Player | Video Coordinator[12] |
| style= | Name | style= | Number | style= | Pos. | style= | Height | style= | Year | style= | Hometown | style= | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cece Hooks | 1 | G | 5'8" | Senior | Dayton, Ohio | Graduated, Exhausted eligibility | |||||||
| Erica Johnson | 4 | G | 5'11" | RS-Junior | Mansfield, Ohio | Graduated | |||||||
| Kaylee Bambule | 13 | G | 5'8" | RS-Junior | Plainfield, Illinois | Graduated | |||||||
| Hunter Rogan | 25 | G | 5'8" | Senior | Urbana, Ohio | Graduated, Exhausted eligibility | |||||||
| Gabby Burris | 41 | F | 5'11" | Senior | Baltimore, Ohio | Graduated, Exhausted eligibility | |||||||
| style= | Name | style= | Number | style= | Pos. | style= | Height | style= | Year | style= | Hometown | style= | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kailah Johnson | 10 | G | 5'8" | Junior | Holland, Ohio | Transferred from Edison State. Will have two years of eligibility remaining.[13] | |||||||
| style= | Name | style= | Number | style= | Pos. | style= | Height | style= | High School | style= | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaya McClure | 0 | G | 5'6 | Christian Academy | Louisville, Kentucky | ||||||
| Aja Austin | 24 | F | 6'1 | Westerville, Ohio | |||||||
| Cassidy Lafler | 41 | G | Dublin Coffman | Dublin, Ohio |
Prior to the season Ohio was picked seventh in the MAC preseason poll.[14] No Bobcats were named to the preseason All-MAC team.
| style= | Predicted finish | style= | Team | style= | Votes (1st place) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toledo | 143 (11) | |||
| 2 | Ball State | 130 (1) | |||
| 3 | Bowling Green | 109 | |||
| 4 | Kent State | 103 | |||
| 5 | Northern Illinois | 99 | |||
| 6 | Western Michigan | 91 | |||
| 7 | Ohio | 61 | |||
| 8 | Akron | 50 | |||
| 9 | Eastern Michigan | 46 | |||
| 10 | Buffalo | 40 | |||
| 11 | Miami | 35 | |||
| 12 | Central Michigan | 29 | |||
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[16] |-!colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season|-!colspan=9 style=| MAC regular season
| style= | Team | style= | Player | style= | Position | style= | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-MAC 2nd team | Yaya Felder | G | So. | ||||
| All-MAC Freshman team | Jaya McClure | G | Fr. | ||||