#16 Ohio State 80, Purdue 64 (Final)

[bucknut11]

Did anyone catch that kid sitting behind Dials? lol
80-64 seconds remaining.

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[MuckFichigan02]

Is anyone as tired as I am of those damn O$U signs that purdue fans are so fond of? I mean really can't they think of something new? I have seen their fans with those signs ever since our 2004 game against them in football. Kinda makes it even sweeter to blow their ass' out on their home court doesn't it? dominant performance by our boys tonight. I have to give their fans a little credit though. Most of them stayed to the final second.I guess students getting in free, coupled with living in Indiana made them stay,huh?

 

[Buckeye513]

Is anyone as tired as I am of those damn O$U signs that purdue fans are so fond of? I mean really can't they think of something new? I have seen their fans with those signs ever since our 2004 game against them in football. Kinda makes it even sweeter to blow their ass' out on their home court doesn't it? dominant performance by our boys tonight. I have to give their fans a little credit though. Most of them stayed to the final second.I guess students getting in free, coupled with living in Indiana made them stay,huh?

Their signs aren't as good as the Domer fans'.

Genius.

 

[Golferdow01]

I only saw snippits of the game to I won't analyze mugh, but a great win after that tough loss last week. I don't care if this was a down Purdue team, we won on the road and road wins in the Big Ten are always quality wins.

-Great defense hustle by Foster...I mean great! Thanks Jent
-Great team defense in general...fast hands
-Terence got some great looks on offense
-Sylvester played much better
-Great passing by Butler...7 assists
-Dials gets a second foul with under 1:30 in the half :(

Bring on the Spartans...toughest road crowd in the Big Ten!

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Buckeyes take advantage of turnovers, beat Boilermakers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -- Je'Kel Foster was just too quick for Purdue.

The Ohio State guard tied his career high with six steals, repeatedly leading the Buckeyes (No. 16 ESPN/USA Today; No. 19 AP) to easy baskets in an 80-64 victory on Wednesday night.

"It was the defense. The coach gave us a halftime speech, more or less to get us motivated on defense, to play harder," said Foster, who also had 10 points and five rebounds.

"We did a good job of sharing the ball and took some great shots. Fortunately, they fell down for us."

Ohio State forced 21 turnovers that led to 30 points. Thirteen of Purdue's errors were steals by the Buckeyes.

"Defense is always the key to the game," said J.J. Sullinger, who led Ohio State with 17 points. "Our best offense is in transition, and we can only run when we stop them at the other end. Playing the passing lanes the way we did tonight was in our favor and we got some easy baskets from it."

The six steals by Foster tied his career high set last month against Gardner-Webb.

"You can't even describe what type of player Je'Kel is," Sullinger said. "He's tough, he's nasty, he's tenacious on defense. He's our leader, man."

The Buckeyes (12-1, 2-1 Big Ten) built a 14-point halftime lead, forced four turnovers by Purdue in the first 2 minutes of the second half and led by as many as 25 points midway through the period. The Boilermakers never came closer than 16 points the rest of the way.

Terence Dials added 13 points for Ohio State, while Matt Sylvester had 10.

"You've got to give yourself a chance," Purdue coach Matt Painter said. "They shot the ball well. We had a chance, but we turned the ball over. ... There's no doubt we were careless."

"When they have three, four of those [turnovers leading to baskets], that's not eight points, that's a 16-point swing," Painter said.

Matt Kiefer had 15 points and 13 rebounds for Purdue (6-8, 0-3), which lost its first home game of the season and its 11th straight against a ranked opponent. Marcus White added 13 points.

Purdue scored the first basket of the game, but Ohio State went on a 12-0 run, including six points by Sylvester, and turned back every comeback by the Boilermakers with timely 3-pointers. Ohio State was 11-of-22 from behind the arc.

"We did a nice job moving the basketball," Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said. "A couple of those [3-pointers] were pretty deep, to be honest. But to their credit, they found the open guy."

The Buckeyes hit eight from long range in the first half, including consecutive shots by Foster and Ivan Harris after Purdue pulled within four points midway through the period.

The Boilermakers shot 52 percent and outrebounded Ohio State 16-11 in the first half, but 11 Purdue turnovers led to 16 points for the Buckeyes. The third of three 3-pointers by Sullinger pushed the lead to 40-26 with under 3 minutes to go, and after Purdue scored twice, the Buckeyes' final baskets of the half were 3-pointers by Ron Lewis.

"We didn't disrupt anything they were doing," Painter said.

 

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Pics from the game last night.........

Ohio State's J.J. Sullinger, right, gets two of his 17 points in front of Purdue's Matt Kiefer during the second half of college basketball action in West Lafayette, Ind. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006. Ohio State defeated Purdue 80-64.
(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Purdue's Matt Kiefer, top right, shoots over Ohio States, J.J. Sullinger, left, and Jamar Butler during the first half of college basketball action in West Lafayette, Ind. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006. Kiefer scored 15 points for Purdue and Sullinger led Ohio State with 17 points. Ohio State defeated Purdue 80-64.

Purdue's Gary Ware (33) makes a pass between Ohio State's J.J. Sullinger (0) and Terence Dials during the first half of college basketball action in West Lafayette, Ind. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006.
(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Ohio State's Je'Kel Foster, bottom right, gets tied up with Purdue's Matt Kiefer, left, and Gary Ware as as they go for a loose ball during the first half of college basketball action in West Lafayette, Ind. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006.
(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

 

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NO. 19 OHIO STATE 80 | PURDUE 64

No bad hangover for Buckeyes
Players put loss in past, bury Boilermakers with solid effort

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

</IMG> MICHAEL CONROY | ASSOCIATED PRESS Purdue’s Gary Ware passes out of a double-team by Ohio State defenders J.J. Sullinger and Terence Dials.


WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Any question about how the Ohio State men’s basketball team would react to its first loss of the season was never really in question.

If not to the scene of the, ahem, crime, the Buckeyes returned to the same state last night and made Purdue pay for whatever they might have felt was taken from them Saturday at Indiana.

The Buckeyes shot better than 50 percent from the field, forced the Boilermakers into 21 turnovers and scored 30 points off them in an 80-64 victory in Mackey Arena.

Purdue trailed by 14 at halftime and was never closer than that in the second half.

Ohio State led by as many as 25 points twice.

"We had to get up for this game, coming off our first loss," said J.J. Sullinger, who led the 19 th-ranked Buckeyes (12-1, 2-1) with 17 points. "There are no nights off in the Big Ten. It’s so hard to get a road win in the Big Ten that we were pretty pumped for this game.

"We knew we were going to play well. We had probably two of the best practices we’ve had the two days before this game."

Ohio State, plagued by fouls in an 81-79 loss at Indiana, beat the Boilermakers for the 10 th time in their past 11 meetings.

It was the first Big Ten home game for Purdue (6-8, 0-3) and its first loss in seven games in Mackey Arena this season.

"Turning the basketball over has been our nemesis all year," said forward Matt Kiefer, who led Purdue with 15 points and 13 rebounds.

The Boilermakers came into the game averaging 20.2 turnovers per game. The Buckeyes took advantage of that and their aptitude behind the three-point arc to open a 46-32 halftime lead.

Ohio State led 12-2 less than 4½ minutes into the game, as Purdue turned over the ball four times in its first seven possessions.

"That’s what we talked about and worked on in the two days of practice we had — picking them up and pressuring them and trying to get them to turn it over," OSU guard Jamar Butler said. "We tried to wear them down and just let them know we were there, let them know we were pressuring them and we were going to stay there all night."

At the other end, the Buckeyes shot 58.1 percent overall and made 8 of 13 three-point attempts, including a seasonhigh three by Sullinger.

"I was feeling it," he said. "Any time you knock down your first shot, the rim gets bigger.

"But I was just taking what the defense was giving me. The defense was packed in. We knew that going into the game, that they were going to pack it in and the extra pass was going to be there. When you swing the ball the way we did, you’re always going to get open shots against a team packing it inside.

"They were definitely worried about Terence (Dials), as everybody should be."

Dials added 13 points for Ohio State despite getting only seven shot attempts. He made five.

"They stretch you," Purdue coach Matt Painter said. "With Dials, it’s pick your poison. When J.J. Sullinger is making shots . . . and (Sylvester) Mayes and Ivan Harris are your eighth and ninth men, you’ve got a pretty good team."

Fourteen points ahead at halftime, OSU coach Thad Matta challenged his players not to let Purdue erase its deficit the way Indiana did in rushing back from 17 points behind Saturday.

Je’Kel Foster had steals on four of Purdue’s first five possessions of the second half, as the Buckeyes increased their lead to 18 points. Foster tied his career high with six steals.

Matta said he was apprehensive about how his players would respond to Saturday’s loss. He worried needlessly.

"When you’ve got a guy like Je’Kel Foster leading the way," Matta said, "he’s going to make sure guys are ready to play."

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[vrbryant]

Funny. Caption says Sully's scoring there, but I'm fairly certain that's the dunk try he had packed that got stuck on the rim.

 

[nicknc33]

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Near the end of the game the camera went to Dials sitting on the bench and directly behind him was a dad and his son. the little boy was making some goofy faces. thought it was funny.. please ignore me.