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Ohio State Hires Former Indiana Assistant Brian Walsh As Assistant Coach​

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“I’m excited for Brian and his family to join our Ohio State Hoops family,” Diebler said in Ohio State’s announcement. “Brian is a proven recruiter with deep Midwest ties who has excelled at connecting with and developing players. His Big Ten scouting experience and analytics expertise are going to be a valuable asset to our program.”

Diebler joins a staff of assistant coaches that also includes Joel Justus, Dave Dickerson, Jamall Walker and Luke Simons. All of them are back for their second season at Ohio State, with Dickerson in his second stint as an assistant coach with the Buckeyes, after joining the program last offseason as members of Diebler’s inaugural staff as Ohio State’s head coach.

Brian Walsh joins Ohio State men’s basketball as assistant coach​

After eight seasons on staff at Indiana, Brian Walsh is joining the Buckeyes as an assistant coach.

“I’m excited for Brian and his family to join our Ohio State Hoops family,” head coach Jake Diebler said. “Brian is a proven recruiter with deep Midwest ties who has excelled at connecting with and developing players. His Big Ten scouting experience and analytics expertise are going to be a valuable asset to our program.”

Walsh served as an assistant coach, a recruiting coordinator and director of operations during his time with the Hoosiers, playing a role in 149 wins and two NCAA tournament appearances.

His hiring at Ohio State marks a return to the Buckeye state after spending time at Dayton and Akron, including one season as the Flyers’ assistant director of operations.

Walsh played collegiately at Xavier and Akron, helping the Musketeers earn back-to-back Atlantic 10 regular season championships and a pair of Sweet Sixteen appearances in 2009 and 2010. He also played a role in a pair of Zips’ MAC regular season titles and a tournament tile in 2013.

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Class: 2028
Position: QB
School: Westlake Village(CA) Oaks Christian
Height: 6-foot-3
Weight: 205lbs

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yeah that's way too young to be having issues

Forgot all about this dude. Shocked he spent 3 years at one school.

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Ball-gag

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School: Ft. Pierce(FL) John Carroll
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Weight: 290lbs

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School: Douglasville(GA) Douglas Co.
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Weight: 310lbs

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Game 2 is one of the most epic ass whoppings in the history of sports. It’s like a Mike Tyson knockout in the first 10 seconds of round 1.

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Damn, that's cool. They say "youth" but nothing on the ticket site has an age limit on it.

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Might not want to put that out on the internet.

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Class: 2027
Position: IOL
School: Oceanside(CA) Oceanside
Height: 6-foot-4
Weight: 280lbs

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Jagdaddy said:

Even Tressel would be impressed by that cliche-ridden monologue.

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I dunno, seems a little light on his lord and savior thanking.

I would say he’s going to go to hell for that but he’s already in Minnesota so who knows?

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Position: TE
School: Denver(NC) East Lincoln
Height: 6-foot-5
Weight: 205lbs

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ACC to reduce number of games in men's basketball conference schedule from 20 to 18 after multiple down years​

The conference is coming off a historically bad season by its standards and is looking to beef up its nonconference performance​

After more than a half-decade of experimentation with a 20-game schedule in men's basketball, the ACC is moving back to an 18-game conference slate for the 2025-26 season and beyond.

ACC athletic directors approved the switch on a league-wide call Wednesday morning, sources told CBS Sports. The conference played a 20-game schedule since 2019-20 (though it was shortened in 2020-21 due to COVID cancellations). The decision comes after lobbying was made in the past two years by some coaches and athletic directors to go back to 18. The ACC's disappointing 2024-25 season in men's hoops was an obvious catalyst in reversing course, sources said.

The league sent just four of its 18 teams to the 2025 NCAA Tournament, including North Carolina, which was controversially one of the final schools to make the cut. Four out of 18 equates to 22.2%, the lowest percentage of ACC teams to make the Big Dance since the tournament expanded to 64 in 1985.

Some upper-echelon programs — Duke chief among them — wanted to drop two games from the league schedule in an effort to avoid dead weight dragging down NCAA Tournament résumés. (Duke nevertheless overcame this, earning a No. 1 seed last season.) The more Quad 3 and Quad 4 games on a league schedule, the worse a conference's chances at more NCAA Tournament bids. The league expanded to 18 teams last season with the additions of Cal, Stanford and SMU.

Even in reducing the league slate, the solution for the ACC's woes lie in its nonconference performances — not its intra-conference schedule.

"You aren't going to fix the problem by going from 20 to 18," one source told CBS Sports. "The problem for the ACC is, a lot of these teams just haven't been good."

The ACC had the worst nonconference winning percentage of the five high-major leagues last season, and in fact was sub-.500 against top-100 teams for the fourth year in a row.

The ACC now wants to empower its coaches an opportunity to effectively swap out two conference games (whose résumé value is now unknowable) for two non-league contests that could mean more, statistically. Not every ACC team will win all of these games, of course, but the idea is to have ACC schools build up a stronger out-of-conference schedule and increase their chances of earning at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament.
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Just sayin': To accomplish greatness the ACC needs to play more "cupcakes"!!!

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Hollenbaugh Punches Ticket to U.S. Open​

Ohio State women's golf junior Kary Hollenbaugh has punched her ticket to play in the U.S. Women's Open later this month.

Hollenbaugh earned her spot in the U.S. Open with a first-place finish at the U.S. Women's Open Qualifier at New Albany Country Club, Hollenbaugh's home course.

After carding a 73 (+1) in the first round, Hollenbaugh fired a four-under 68 in round two to earn her win with a total score of 141 (-3).

The U.S. Women's Open will take place at Erin Hills in Erin, Wisc. May 29-June 1.

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Class: 2027
Position: DE/LB
School: Montgomery(AL) Montgomery Academy
Height: 6-foot-4
Weight: 200lbs

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School: Middletown(DE) Appoquinimink
Height: 6-foot-6
Weight: 270lbs

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Class: 2027
School: Bixby(OK) Bixby
Position: OT
Height: 6-foot-5
Weight: 280lbs

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