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Ohio State vs Iowa, Mar 9, 2023, 2:30 PM EST, BTN

Yeah he had a meniscus issue in High School too. All that needs to happen is for him to get a non-favorable draft position grade and he'll be back.

Since he is injured, and conspiracy theories aside, the school confirmed it with holding him out and telling everyone it was an injury, I'd say the odds are he'll be back now. Probably only 1 more year, but it's a year to get quicker, maybe slim down a bit and also maybe go on a big time run.

Thanks for the info, didn't know he's had an injury issue before coming to Columbus. Fingers crossed he can get healthy and put together a great season to boost his draft stock, he's probably the most talented scorer I've seen here since Russell, and before him Conley.
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Ohio State vs Michigan State, Mar 10, 2023, 2:30 PM EST, BTN

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Michigan State's Tom Izzo chides Chris Holtmann doubters after Big Ten Tournament loss to Ohio State​


"I've always pulled for coaches and disappointed in how we played, but it just goes to show how college basketball is so very difficult to coach," Izzo said. "I give (Ohio State's) Chris (Holtmann) a lot of credit. Everybody thinks like he's my uncle or my cousin or my brother. He's not. He's just a human being that went through some tough times with some injuries, and people make stupid statements like he hasn't been to the second round in four years. Well, one year nobody went. So don't make it look bad for him. It figures the guy wouldn't show up for this, and I think he's a good guy personally. If he hasn't done a good job, I deserve to be fired because I didn't do a very good job at all."

ON OHIO STATE INTENTIONALLY BUILDING AROUND YOUNG GUYS:​

"Like I said, I give him a lot of credit because I know what it's like in Columbus. It's not as bad there in basketball as it is in football, but I know what it's like. As a coach, like we kept saying on the bench, poor Malik, he just didn't look like he was moving very good, you know, and they had some injuries early. Then they had freshmen. And then they had to deal with freshmen on one side, the transfers in the middle, the seniors on the other side.
"There's so many obstacles we all have to go through now, and we have to figure them out. I don't need anybody feeling sorry for anybody, but they're not easy. I think the greatest job he did was not this tournament, the greatest job he did was saving them for the last five games of the regular season, even when they lost. Other than the Purdue loss, they were playing better for those five games.
"I don't know about playing them a lot of minutes. That's okay, but eventually, you've got to have some subs. But they're on a high. They're playing with energy and emotion, and that can get you through fatigue, I guess is what I'm saying."
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Jim Boeheim (HC Syracuse Orange)

The 2-3 zone was designed to make you rely on the outside shot. But as teams moved toward building their offenses around the 3 point shot, this once well-designed defense became a liability. Boeheim's apparent refusal to evolve gradually led Syracuse to mediocrity.

That's not to discredit his entire career, but the game passed him by. He's not the first and won't be the last, but it seems apparent that his "retirement" wasn't really his decision. More of a concession to a coach who gave a lot to the university, but whose time had passed.
100% this. Syracuse games turned into teams shooting 80% from 3 against them. The zone quite literally won them a title in 03......but soon after that it was the reason why games were lost. The likelihood of the replacement just being Boeheim lite is depressing. The zone will stay, and the mediocrity will continue.
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SF Justin Ahrens (transfer to Loyola Marymount)

Justin Ahrens three point shooting percentages:

18-19 - 38.8%
19-20 - 40.4%
20-21 - 42.5% (dude was deadly)
21-22 - 35.4%
transfers to Loyola Marymount
22-23 - 32.2%

His greatest strength turned into a weakness. Go figure. LMU went out of the WCC tournament tonight and he barely played at all.

Hope he gets his Master's and enjoys LA. There are worse things than that.
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College Football Risk

Bumping this because we’re in the homestretch of another season of this silly game and lagging way behind scUM in player count. They have 1,117 players, we only have 625 with about a week left. If you have a Reddit account and a minute each night to spare to hit a button, come help us make sure scUM doesn’t win! Despite the player disparity, tOSU is in 2nd place, but we definitely need more help since the scUM team uses MGo, and that’s a massive user base for them to pull from.

If you want to “play” and help the good guys win back to back championships (we won season 2, this is 3), simply visit the below link, login via Reddit, and then click on any blue territory that also borders a gray territory (ours) to attack scUM. If you want to get orders and play after tonight, our Reddit orders bots will automatically send you a territory to attack/defend via Reddit messages each afternoon. There’s a roll tonight at 10:30pm eastern, and then Sunday is an off day, returning to action on Monday.

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Ohio State vs Michigan State, 4 Mar 23, Noon EST, ESPN

The place I would fault coach is not amping up his energy and getting in their asses for playing dogshit Defense. He's just too nice most of the time. Be nice when you are trying to get their Offensive confidence but be a sonofabitch when you need them to play defense like their lives depend on it. They lost that game in the first 15 minutes. I dont give a shit if you can't hit the broad side of a barn you can still play defense if you have two arms and two legs.

Unfortunately it's why I watch basically no basketball at all anymore other than Buckeye and Cavalier games because it's all a look at me Offensive game now and I hate it.

Now that I got that out of my system, was great to see Gene getting some boards and scoring. He needs to be the lockdown guy on D but turning that into Offense is where he can really make an impact. The team kept battling but they hurt themselves too much early on. Let's get a few wins in the tournament and see what this team might be next year.
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T William "Big Bill" Bell (All-American, OSU HOF, R.I.P.)

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Black History Month: Football player had higher calling than just ‘phys ed’​

FEBRUARY 27, 2013
William Bell
William Bell

William “Big Bill” Bell was a standout tackle for the OSU football team, but his academic career off the field far outshone his performance on it.

Bell played for the Buckeyes from 1929 through 1931, and earned All Big Ten and Honorable Mention All-American honors his final season. But football wasn’t his only activity: He was a member, and Sergeant of Arms, for the African-American social fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, and he was a member of Varsity “O,” the Collegiate Council, and the Interracial Council.

His senior year, the Upper Class Cabinet of the OSU chapter of the YMCA tapped Bell to lead a new committee on interracial relations. In doing so, the Cabinet’s president, Wallace Hall, revived a then-dormant policy of allowing African-American members to become a member. In a Lantern article about Bell’s appointment, Hall said “Bell is a good worker, and I see no reason he should not be a member of the cabinet.”

Bell was named Interracial Chairman of the Upper Class Cabinet, 1931 Makio

Bell was named Interracial Chairman of the Upper Class Cabinet, 1931 Makio

After graduating in June 1932, Bell began a long career coaching football at historically African-American colleges, including Claflin College in South Carolina, Florida A&M University, Howard University and finally North Carolina A&T State University. Bell worked more than 20 years at North Carolina A&T in a number of capacities, including athletic director and professor of physical education. (Along the way, Bell received his master’s degree in physical education and his PhD in physical education from Ohio State, in 1937 and 1960, respectively.)

After organizing physical education departments at several universities, Bell ended his career as athletic director of Fayetteville (Alabama) State University where he assisted in the development of Fayetteville’s National Youth Sports Program, a summer organization for disadvantaged youths.

He died at the age of 81 in 1981 in Fayetteville. In Bell’s obituary, a former student of Bell’s at North Carolina said Bell “never said ’phys. ed.’ He always said ‘health and physical education.’ He wanted it to be a profession.”
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Your Spotify Playlists

Post your favorite Spotify (or other streaming service) playlists here, whether you or someone else made them.

Here's one that I made called "Hardcore Garage". As I said in the description, it is "•Garage•Punk•Trash• •Fuzz•Psyche•Noise• Hi-energy, lo-fidelity, authentic Rock'N'Roll". Bascially, it is the "rock" end of the "punk" spectrum (Stooges, Saints, Dead Boys, Joneses, Crime), the "punk" end of the "garage" spectrum (Caesars, Cynics, Stems, Baby Woodrose), with lots of glorious "noise" tossed into the mix (Schizophonics and a bunch of band you've never heard of) . Plus quite a few post-grunge punk-garage-blues-altrock things. At least 22 countries represented, with several Ohio bands (Dead Boys, Gaunt, Electric Eels, Pagans, Mirrors, Human Switchboard, to name a few). Take a listen, give a "like" and a "follow" and I'll do the same for any playlist that you post here....

Hardcore Garage

Here's a pared down version of Hardcore Garage, with a few more "trad" rock songs added....

Petrol


i’ve made a few.
different genres (mostly rock), and multiple eras of genres
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