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2010-2011 Men's Basketball (Outright Big Ten & BTT Champs)

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bkochmc;1851164; said:
Great article, thanks for the link. It gives great insight into Matta's coaching philosophy. The defensive free throw rate is an interesting stat.
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After reading that article and the way Matta thinks about fouling and defense, I know that I didn't want to be in that locker room during halftime of the Iowa game. They played very poor defense and 3 guys had 2 fouls on them at halftime:(
 
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LitlBuck;1851221; said:
After reading that article and the way Matta thinks about fouling and defense, I know that I didn't want to be in that locker room during halftime of the Iowa game. They played very poor defense and 3 guys had 2 fouls on them at halftime:(
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You know, I would have thought that as well. Matta said after the game though that he didnt say anything at halftime to them. He was at a loss for words with how bad they played. They didnt hustle. They didnt play any defense and they didnt run the floor. He said he just told them that if they didnt start getting it going they'd be run out of the gym. Evidently the maturity level is very high on this team even though they are very young for the most part.

The sign of a great team is winning even though you are playing your worst game. Two in a row now they've been able to do that.
 
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http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebas...ng-college-basketball-midseason-awards-010611

Just about everyone has already or will begin conference play this weekend, so it's the proper time to re-evaluate and dole out some midseason awards.
Obviously, my pick for the Preseason Player of the Year (North Carolina freshman Harrison Barnes) doesn't look all that promising right now. However, now I'm going with another guy I did have on my First Team Preseason All-Americans as the POY.
NATIONAL TITLE WINNER: I'm sticking with my preseason pick on this one ? and I didn't go with Duke like virtually everyone else. I tabbed Ohio State to win it all in a Final Four that included Duke, Michigan State and Missouri. I'll stick with that even though I wouldn't mind throwing Kansas in there somewhere.
BEST LEAD MAN: Jared Sullinger, Ohio State. The kid is just a beast and a winner. He didn't walk into Columbus with all the swagger and try to act like it was his team; he's just done his part. Sullinger is averaging a double-double, plays hard on nearly every possession and comes with no shortage of intangibles.

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Matta plans to stick with his big lineup to start games
Sunday, January 9, 2011
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Ohio State vs. Minnesota

When the season began with two big men but no natural point guard in the starting lineup, it seemed only a matter of time before Ohio State men's basketball coach Thad Matta would have to swap out one of the bigs, Dallas Lauderdale, for a table-setter, freshman Aaron Craft.

Two months in, however, the No.2-ranked Buckeyes are undefeated and the starting lineup is unchanged. It likely will remain so today in Value City Arena against Minnesota, which starts two beasts of its own inside and brings a third off the bench.

Matta said he decided at the start of the season to start Lauderdale with three other upperclassmen and freshman Jared Sullinger because it put the most-experienced lineup on the court to open games.

"I like the way we've started games," said Matta, whose team has trailed at the first timeout in only three. "Those five guys out there seem really, really connected."

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...th-his-big-lineup-to-start-games.html?sid=101
 
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Still No. 2 in the polls. But even against opponents the caliber of Indiana and Iowa, the start of Big Ten play has rubbed a little shine off their ride. The Buckeyes fell from first to fourth in defensive efficiency and from first to second in the Pomeroy performance ratings. But three straight conference wins helped them climb 10 spots (to 13th) in the Rating Percentage Index.
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Learning how to deal with prosperity is ongoing, especially now that opponents are talented enough to recover from double-digit deficits. Ohio State built second-half leads of 13 points on Iowa and 18 on Minnesota and had each cut to three in the final minute before surviving with defensive stops.

Now that the outcomes are getting closer, free throws become more important. The Buckeyes managed only nine attempts at Iowa, and in the two games, made only 19 of 32 (59.4 percent). If William Buford and Jon Diebler can't or won't get to the rim more, Craft should start trying to. Ohio State's ratio of one free throw for every three field-goals attempted ranks in the bottom 25 percent in the country.

The assist-to-turnover ratio also isn't as sparkling as it was during nonconference play. The Buckeyes averaged nearly eight more assists than turnovers then; 2.7 more in the Big Ten.
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten.../osu-mbk-insider-1-11-g2kb84dv-1.html?sid=101
 
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After watching the Michigan game I have to take a moment to call out our students.

For years I have heard them whine about not having the good seats. We needed students to replace those old farts who just sit on their hands. Students will make the arena come alive.

Well now they have those good seats - at student prices - and the only thing that has changed is the students are standing on their hands.

The UM student section absolutely puts us to shame.

Step up.
 
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Oh8ch;1856482; said:
After watching the Michigan game I have to take a moment to call out our students.

For years I have heard them whine about not having the good seats. We needed students to replace those old farts who just sit on their hands. Students will make the arena come alive.

Well now they have those good seats - at student prices - and the only thing that has changed is the students are standing on their hands.

The UM student section absolutely puts us to shame.

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THIS. LOTS OF THIS. It doesn't help much that the band is not permitted to stand almost at all during the game.
 
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Duke is not -- and was never -- unbeatable


Duke is not -- and was never -- unbeatable
On Jan. 3, Florida State lost to Auburn, arguably the worst major-conference team in the country.

Two games later, the Seminoles beat No. 1 Duke, arguably the best team in the country.

And that just about sums up college basketball over the past 35 years.

Anything can happen and anything does happen. A kid named Ali Farokhmanesh can grace the cover of national magazines and a team straight out of the movies can play in a national championship game.

Power teams don?t exist anymore, or at least not the way we expect them to. On the hierarchical scale of one to perfection, we constantly come up short.

An unblemished team has become an antiquated notion, a throwback sitting right alongside short shorts and Chuck Taylors in the historical archives.

There are currently four teams left with a beautiful goose egg in the right side of the win-loss ledger: Ohio State, Kansas, Syracuse and San Diego State.

And when I think of them, I think of Agatha Christie. She of the ?And Then There Were None? fame. That?s where we will be soon enough.

All four will lose. And probably soon.

Bank on it.
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Read more (if you have a strong stomach): http://espn.go.com/blog/CollegeBasketballNation/post/_/id/21092/duke-is-not-and-was-never-unbeatable

I like how ESPiN pulled out the "No one is unbeatable" card AFTER the Golden Girls lost last night, and it really doesn't matter if Ohio State was there or not, Syracuse is legit too. As usual the bastion of journalistic integrity is showing it's true colors yet again :roll1:
 
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BuckeyeMike80;1856565; said:
Duke is not -- and was never -- unbeatable


Read more (if you have a strong stomach): http://espn.go.com/blog/CollegeBasketballNation/post/_/id/21092/duke-is-not-and-was-never-unbeatable

I like how ESPiN pulled out the "No one is unbeatable" card AFTER the Golden Girls lost last night, and it really doesn't matter if Ohio State was there or not, Syracuse is legit too. As usual the bastion of journalistic integrity is showing it's true colors yet again :roll1:
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I also love this comment to the article:

Totally ignorant column, employing pretzel logic and sour grapes. There are still FOUR unbeaten teams. How is then, that a Duke loss is "proof" that no team can go unbeaten? Duke's loss only proves one thing you mental dwarf. It proves that Duke won't go unbeaten. We don't know the fate of the other unbeaten teams yet. It is still to be determined, and NOT affected in any manner by Duke's loss. Get a clue you Dookie slurper. Duke lost last night because they lack athleticism, and looked like a bunch of timid little choir boys playing against athletes. They had NO inside presence, NO toughness on the boards, NO penetration, and instead pitter-pattered around on the perimeter shooting set shots like a girls team. They are like a Hostess Twinkie. Soft and white on the inside. That is why they lost, and that is why they are going nowhere in the tournament, despite the favorable seeding they will no doubt receive.
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