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Ohio State Men's Tennis (2014/2019/2024 ITA Indoor National Champs, 20 Straight B1G Titles)

Thanks Gracel....had to chuckle when you mentioned 'NCAA Sportsmanship Codes'.....Those wingnuts cannot keep their own rules straight, let alone establish niceties such as sportsmanship....personal opinion of course. From the length of your response, and the detail, might give me the opinion that I'm not the first to come up with that approach. But, as long as there are rules, there are those that can figure out a way to get past them....or you could just recruit good tennis players, hone them against each other, and take on all comers. As long as they're from New Albany. Go Bucks!
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

The Buckeyes are projected to finish with 19 wins, which would mean going 4-5 over the last 9 games. IOW, bubblicious.

Right now they have a stretch with no true road games until 2/22. They probably need to win at least two of these games - UM, USC, UVA neutral and Wisconsin. The road trip combo of MSU and Iowa towards the end of the month looks brutal for these guys. Then a mixture of Purdue & 2 winnable games at the end. Overall, these guys still have a legit shot at the tournament, they just have to hold the line the rest of the way. I think the most likely pathway is win vs USC, UVA, @P S U, vs IU and either Wisconsin or Purdue. Tough but plausible.
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Ohio State @ Maryland, Thursday Feb. 5, 830pm EST, FS1

Whoever pissed Tilly off…do that before every game.

Came out like he took something personal. I love it.
I sent him a love letter about being softer than the Pillsbury Dough Boy lounging on a mountain of Charmin tissue paper and his mom agrees.

Seems to have struck a chord
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

There's is discussion on 11W that OSU's basketball NIL is ranked 12th in the Big Ten and TCUN is ranked 5th nationally (per something Jardy stated). I have no idea how accurate that is, but if relatively close then it's no wonder May is where he's at and Diebler has the bench he does.
I'm not an insider by any means, even I can see OSU didn't spend in the last offseason. Tilly is German-born, which means his NIL options are more limited, and logically speaking that had to impact his decision as OSU's meager offering was comparable to what others could offer ... and he was the best transfer OSU got. Cupps and Ojianwuna, both coming off injuries (and Ojianwuna in fact missing this season because of it) were obviously not guys who would command significant dollars last year. Noel was a local guy who played at Wright State, again not someone you would expect would require big money to come to OSU. Bynum is the only guy they brought in that looks like he could have gotten some decent NIL offers from other schools, and it's not even clear he would have been in line for big money. I do believe some hesitancy with uncertainty regarding the Commission coming & restructuring of OSU's NIL collectives, along with the obvious need to devote most resources to football, were factors in OSU being hesitant to release substantial NIL funds for basketball last year.
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