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#16 Ohio State 80, Purdue 64 (Final)

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I've started a separate thread so no one misses it but I will repeat here. The ESPN Scoreboard link for Wednesday has a link to watch the Ohio State - Purdue game online live free of charge.
 
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1/11/06

Terwilliger gets shot to showcase himself

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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Saturday was what Matt Terwilliger said he "signed up for" when he chose to play basketball at Ohio State. He wanted to play in the Big Ten. He wanted to test his 6-foot-8 self against the other big boys in the conference.

Saturday was his indoctrination. Terwilliger had played mop-up minutes a few times last season as a freshman.

He had played more minutes than ever before in a rout of Penn State last week. But never before Saturday had he played in Indiana’s hostile Assembly Hall or against a mountain like the Hoosiers’ 6-8, 268-pound Marco Killingsworth.

"Boxing out Marco Killingsworth is like boxing out a wall," J.J. Sullinger said.

Publicly, Terence Dials blamed himself for the loss to Indiana because of his inability to stay on the floor because of foul trouble. Privately, Terwilliger blamed himself for not playing better in Dials’ absence. In hockey terms, his plus-minus rating was minus-23 in a game Ohio State lost by two points.

"I’m just going to have to step up and never let that happen again, the way I played on Saturday," Terwilliger said yesterday.

He will get his chance. The Buckeyes’ game tonight at Purdue continues a stretch of four in a row against teams — Michigan State and Wisconsin are still left — that can play as big if not bigger inside than Indiana did with Killingsworth and D.J. White. Terwilliger could see time not only in relief of Dials but alongside him at power forward.

"We don’t have a quote-unquote power forward. Matt’s probably the closest thing we have to that," coach Thad Matta said. "I think he knows that we’re going to need him down the stretch and we’re counting on him."

Terwilliger is the most athletic big man Ohio State has had since Ken Johnson. He has perimeter shooting skills and twice already this season has swooped in to catch and slam home offensive rebounds in one motion, including a one-handed tomahawk that made SportsCenter.

Matta said he would like to see Terwilliger rebound as vigorously at the defensive end: He has only 20 rebounds in 11 games and nine on the defensive boards. He had two rebounds in 19 minutes at Indiana. That’s not good enough, Matta said.

"It’s a mind-set and I just haven’t had it the last few games," Terwilliger said. "I’ll get a blockout and just kind of say, ‘OK, I’m here, he’s not going to be able to rebound,’ and someone else will get it. I’ve just got to take the initiative to go get the ball. I’m being too passive. I’ve got to be more aggressive and think that every rebound is mine. I need to go get ’em all."

Sullinger, who has adopted that mind-set himself in Matta’s season-and-a-half as coach, said it isn’t as easy as it might seem, especially playing inside.

"It’s a lot harder standing up under (the basket) and going to get the rebound as opposed to being out on the wing and no one’s really boxing you out and you just come flying in and jump," Sullinger said. "Standing still and boxing somebody out, it’s a lot tougher.

"But Twig’s starting to understand. He’s starting to get it. He’s showing glimpses."

Coaches continually counseled Terwilliger during the game Saturday to keep his focus.

"I’d get a silly foul or something and I’d let the last play affect the next play and it just kind of kept going like that. It kind of snowballed," he said.

"Basically, they said if you get a silly foul or give them a bucket or a rebound or something, don’t let that affect the next play. Just keep going. That’s something I’ve got to work on, just forget the last play."

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Good game to shake off the Indiana loss. Unfortunately for Purdue, they're not very good this year, but, it is a big ten game on the road, and has to be approached with caution. I'll be disapointed if we don't see a dominating win though, this team is capable of it. We do need better play from Twigs though, and we have to shoot the ball better. :oh: :io:
 
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(19) Ohio St. (11-1) vs. Purdue (6-7)Preview - Box Score - Recap

Game Info: 8:00 pm EST Wed Jan 11, 2006
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Ohio State faced its first ranked opponent of the season in its last outing and came away with its first defeat of 2005-06. With a pair of games against Top 25 teams looming, the Buckeyes can ill afford to look past Purdue.

The 19th-ranked Buckeyes (11-1, 1-1 Big Ten) look for their 10th win in the last 11 games against the Boilermakers (6-7, 0-2) when the teams meet at Mackey Arena on Wednesday.

Ohio State took its perfect record to Indiana on Saturday and lost 81-79 to the ninth-ranked Hoosiers in a game decided in the final seconds.
With 9.8 seconds left and the score tied, Indiana's Marshall Strickland let Ohio State's Terence Dials run over him as he tried to set a pick. A foul was called on Dials, and Strickland made two free throws with 5.7 seconds left to put the Hoosiers ahead.

Strickland then stripped the Buckeyes' Matt Terwilliger on the final possession to seal the win for Indiana.


"I knew the cross screen was coming, I just tried to get over it and I hit him and they called a foul," said Dials, who had a season-high 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds. "I couldn't avoid it."

The Buckeyes are 6-18 against ranked opponents since the beginning of the 2002-03 season, and face No. 14 Michigan State on Sunday and 21st-ranked Wisconsin next Wednesday.

"I think we showed the country that when we play our best, we can play with anybody in the country," Dials said.

The depleted Boilermakers lost their third straight on Saturday, falling 68-65 at Michigan.

Purdue has lost two players -- Carl Landry and David Teague -- to season-ending injuries and Tarrance Crump to suspension, and Nate Minnoy had a knee injury in the Big Ten opener against Northwestern last Wednesday.

On Saturday, Matt Kiefer missed a 3-pointer before Korey Spates was short on a long shot that would've tied the game for Purdue just before the final buzzer. Kiefer scored 21 and Spates had 17 points off the bench.

"We needed to get one more rebound, or make one more play," Boilermakers coach Matt Painter said. "We got what we wanted from Kiefer, and Korey got a good look at the end. I think there were a lot of positives ... Our concentration level was high."

The Boilermakers have dropped 10 consecutive games to teams in the Top 25 since a 53-51 win over then-No. 19 Wisconsin on Jan. 14, 2004. Ohio State is 24-51 all-time at Purdue, but has won four of its last five visits to Mackey Arena.
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Yes, Purdue is not a very good team, but we can't come out dismayed with our loss to Indiana. Never underestimate any team. I believe that our guys will come out and fight hard as hell, and shake off their disappointing loss against the Hoosiers. Go Buckeyes!
 
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