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#8 Ohio State vs #9 TCU, Thursday March 19, 1215pm ET, CBS

Bucks have been average at best for so long now, it's hard to be enthusiastic about next season. They need to play faster and more physical and get more rebounds. Put pressure on the other team's defense, put them on their heels. I suppose they need a deeper bench for faster play. They seemed to be too tired to score late in almost every game this season, even with the slow tempo.

Frogs outrebounded the Bucks by 6, which was the average rebound margin for the frogs over the last month or so. So we're totally average among Big12 teams, even with two 7-footers against a team whose tallest player is 6'-8". Trash talking butthole, Dave Punch (6'-7"), had 13 boards. That's disgusting. He's only a sophomore, not some wily senior.

If they do well in the portal, we'll see what Dieb does with that. As of now it's hard to have hope they will win 25 games next year.
I think in hindsight, much of Punch's confidence & comment was based on the expectation of matching up against Tilly. He owned Tilly in this game & OSU played right into his hands by not changing the lineup more.
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#8 Ohio State vs #9 TCU, Thursday March 19, 1215pm ET, CBS

This goes back to my point about Diebler struggling with making adjustments on the fly.
I mean, it's not even something you had to adjust on the fly. I said before the game, this looked like a game where a Devin Royal small ball lineup would work. I don't know if that's a coaching decision or it may be they made promises to Royal that he would play the 3 this season and didn't want to go back on that. If they didn't play Devin inside just because of a promise, this was a game where trying to stick with that plan backfired as he clearly was more effective in the paint & they needed to get him the ball more down there (and less to Tilly).
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#8 Ohio State vs #9 TCU, Thursday March 19, 1215pm ET, CBS

Bucks have been average at best for so long now, it's hard to be enthusiastic about next season. They need to play faster and more physical and get more rebounds. Put pressure on the other team's defense, put them on their heels. I suppose they need a deeper bench for faster play. They seemed to be too tired to score late in almost every game this season, even with the slow tempo.

Frogs outrebounded the Bucks by 6, which was the average rebound margin for the frogs over the last month or so. So we're totally average among Big12 teams, even with two 7-footers against a team whose tallest player is 6'-8". Trash talking butthole, Dave Punch (6'-7"), had 13 boards. That's disgusting. He's only a sophomore, not some wily senior.

If they do well in the portal, we'll see what Dieb does with that. As of now it's hard to have hope they will win 25 games next year.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

I still think the NIL thing is without some context. That's money spent not funds available. We were reportedly in on guys like Swain Peterson and Williams until the end. Who knows how much money ended up going unspent because we got burnt waiting on those guys and had to settle for scraps by the time they decided for elsewhere. I'm not saying we have a scUM money at all but I don't think the situation is as awful as some want to think.

This is why we need to be better at highlighting the best more realistic options Instead of hoping and waiting on those high high level types.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

With NIL at 12-14th in the B1G, an 8th place finish is probably a 75 percentile result. Obviously, not where I want the program to be, but we’ll likely be worse next year unless NIL is increased.
Yeah, that's what worries me the most, NIL. The best players are expensive, and I don't think OSU is going to provide NIL that allows for them to get those types of players. So the coaches have to outsmart the competition - you could say maybe they did that with Amare Bynum, but no one else they added a year ago was really the type of player that helped them win more than a hypothetical average replacement player would have. The hit rate on transfers needs to go way up, I realize they need to have a certain quantity of players for practice & emergency depth reasons, but that can't be more than half the roster.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

Alright. The season is over. Would you say the overall performance was below, met, or exceeded expectations?

I would say this was a "meets expectations" season based on preseason projections, but certainly you'd like to have seen a little more success. Ideally, you get a couple real assets in the portal and take a step forward next season.
With NIL at 12-14th in the B1G, an 8th place finish is probably a 75 percentile result. Obviously, not where I want the program to be, but we’ll likely be worse next year unless NIL is increased.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

Alright. The season is over. Would you say the overall performance was below, met, or exceeded expectations?

I would say this was a "meets expectations" season based on preseason projections, but certainly you'd like to have seen a little more success.

I think it was about the bare minimum of the met expectations scale. They needed to make the tournament and they did but they flopped big time and were completely unprepared out of the gate in a game they probably shoulda won in the 1st round.

Diebler needs more signature wins outside of Purdue next season for one. That's still his whole resume at the moment. Clear progress in the xs and os and having guys consistently prepared aspect as well. If we are in the same spot or worse after next year I think it's time to move on but I get the feeling the AD will be ok with bare minimum expectations and get the bad feeling we end up with another Holtmann type extension fiasco.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

Alright. The season is over. Would you say the overall performance was below, met, or exceeded expectations?

I would say this was a "meets expectations" season based on preseason projections, but certainly you'd like to have seen a little more success. Ideally, you get a couple real assets in the portal and take a step forward next season.
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HC Ryan Day (B1G Coach of Year, B1G Champion, National Champion)

I love that Day adjusts, but occasionally I think he overadjusts by, for example, slowing the offense to a crawl and putting multiple tight ends on the field because they had problems with scUM when they did it. I agree with this adjustment in theory, but let's not overreact to "experience" being too big of a deal in the current environment based on IU, which also had a ton of experienced guys, and a staff, that were not only experienced generally but were experienced at playing and coaching with each other.
We’re not going to win a championship every season. But can we win every 3-5 years and be in the mix every year, for sure. I think the constant adjustments is what we will see with the ebb and flow of players and NIL You have guys that are looking for the payday and guys that want developed.

I feel Day has a good feel for what he wants to do.
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#8 Ohio State vs #9 TCU, Thursday March 19, 1215pm ET, CBS

IMO it was a strategic error to play Tilly 31 minutes in this game. TCU is not a big team, they played bigger than their size but this was the textbook example of a team you can play with a small ball lineup against. OSU went on a huge run when Tilly was on the bench in the second half, then when he came back in, that's when TCU went on a run and won the game. Jake made a mistake in not adjusting his lineup to the matchups in this game.

This goes back to my point about Diebler struggling with making adjustments on the fly.
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#8 Ohio State vs #9 TCU, Thursday March 19, 1215pm ET, CBS

IMO it was a strategic error to play Tilly 31 minutes in this game. TCU is not a big team, they played bigger than their size but this was the textbook example of a team you can play with a small ball lineup against. OSU went on a huge run when Tilly was on the bench in the second half, then when he came back in, that's when TCU went on a run and won the game. Jake made a mistake in not adjusting his lineup to the matchups in this game.
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#8 Ohio State vs #9 TCU, Thursday March 19, 1215pm ET, CBS

We definitely need a strong portal season. There's potential for a good core group coming back, and when you add in Thompson, they have the makings of a decent team, but it's really easy to slip and take a step back if they make the wrong choices. They need to add at least two big-time players, PG and C. Can't settle for guys who averaged 4 or 5 points per game.

We can't do what we did this year and wait around forever for higher level guys to make their decision, we were supposedly "heavily in" on Swain, Williams & Peterson, but in the end were we really? The hoops portal moves VERY quickly. We need to identify the best more realistic options quick who aren't going to take forever and end up leaving us hanging. That's how you end up with a Cupps type having to play big minutes at point next year.
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