#20 Ohio State vs UCLA, Saturday, Dec 19, 4:15 PM, CBS

[Fungo Squiggly]

These refs are silly. That almost “steal” by Campbell was all arms, no ball.

 

[Mike80]

I'm a little surprised they called that hip check a foul....

 

[Mike80]

Mick Cronin still looks like a penis....

He even starts to turn a little purplish when he's pissed off too

 

[Bestbuck36]

Good bounce back team win.

 

[Mike80]

If you would have told me after the Purdue game that:

1. EJ would come back in and foul out early in the 2nd half
2. Ohio State would shoot 6/18 from 3
and
3. fUCLA would have a big rebounding edge for most of the game

That Ohio State would win by 7, I'd take it immediately.

 

[Systems_id]

If you would have told me after the Purdue game that:

1. EJ would come back in and foul out early in the 2nd half
2. Ohio State would shoot 6/18 from 3
and
3. fUCLA would have a big rebounding edge for most of the game

That Ohio State would win by 7, I'd take it immediately.

Yup. Very nice bounce back win. Looking forward to seeing more Eugene Brown in the future. Key continues to be my favorite freshman.

 

[DZ83CK]

Fun game! Man i love college basketball. Great to see OSU come out with a second "name" win on a very short nonconference schedule. How about Eugene Brown III? Kid has some big ones. Reminds me of the old Cooper saying, if he's going to bite, he's going to bite as a pup. Excited to see him grow into his future with this program.

 

[scarletmike]

That was a really good team win, which is an encouraging thing to see after the Purdue game.

 

[DZ83CK]

Mick Cronin didn't go into this year thinking he would lose to Ohio State yet again ... think again, Mick!! I always enjoy seeing OSU beat that weasel. Dude with a pathetic stare down on the ref after calling timeout late. As if the ref getting his timeout a second late when you have no chance at winning makes a difference.

 

[nomatta]

I only got to watch most of the first half ( I think we were up 25-24) but although the margin was small, I really liked how we were playing. Very active movement on both ends and sharing the ball pretty well. Good to see we were able to close the game out.

UCLA looked like a decent team to me with aggressive defense so I think this will be a quality win.

Go Bucks!

 

[TooTall]

Hell of a W

 

[DZ83CK]

30 bench points for OSU. That is huge and exactly what you need when your best player is limited due to fouls and gets an early DQ.

 

[DZ83CK]

The only ref call that bothered me was when CJ fouled a guy driving past him, dude is standing on the court and chucks up a shot after the contact, and they give UCLA 2 free throws. That was an abomination. Dude was driving, he was not in the act of shooting until after the foul. UCLA wasn't in the bonus at the time, so that was free points for them.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Wait... I thought we had to fire everyone because we lost to Purdue. Maybe I don't understand how this works

 

[ScriptOhio]

NO. 20 OHIO STATE KNOCKS OFF UCLA IN CHAMPIONS CLASSIC, 77-70

This was, by far the most important game of the day for Ohio State.

While the football team was playing in the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis, the men's basketball team took on UCLA in the Champion's Classic and knocked off the Bruins, 77-70.

TEAM 1 2 FINAL
UCLA................ 38 32 70
#20 OHIO STATE 39 39 77

In a game that went largely how it was expected to (a grind-it-out, close affair) Ohio State took a one-point lead into the locker room behind a balanced scoring effort. The second half featured more of the same, with the Buckeyes pulling away in the last four minutes after trailing by as many as six midway through the second half.

Duane Washington was the leading scorer for Ohio State, who scored 14 points on an inefficient 4-12 shooting. Freshman Zed Key added 11, while Eugene Brown knocked down three triples. Seth Towns made his Buckeyes debut after transferring from Harvard in the offseason, playing two minutes and missing his only field goal attempt. It was his first action since 2018, when he was named the Ivy League Player of the Year.

For the Bruins, Cody Riley led all scorers with 15 in the loss. Kentucky transfer Johnny Juzang had 13, while Tyger Campbell outdueled Duane Washington's inefficiency with a 1-10, three-point effort....

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...tate-knocks-off-ucla-in-champions-classic-x-x