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

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DZ83CK;1861618; said:
On ESPN's "College Basketball Final" tonight the first question that was posed to the panel was "who's number 2?" with the thought that (after Kansas' loss) OSU was the clear #1 and that it was tough to figure out who #2 is ... and the first person who answered the question was Jay Williams, who promptly said he felt Pitt was the #1 team in the country. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Why do people care? This isn't the BCS. Few things are more meaningless to the national championship in college hoops than the human polls.

Prove it in March.
 
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Buckeyes similar to Gators' title teams
Lighty: "But the difference is they got it done and won two championships."
Jeff Goodman is a senior college basketball writer for FOXSports.com.
Updated Jan 26, 2011

COLUMBUS, Ohio

The debate is over ? and so too may be the argument that there isn?t a dominant college basketball team.

In a year in which just about everyone believes parity has reigned supreme and there?s no clear-cut No. 1 team in the nation, the Ohio State Buckeyes may have something to say about that.

Ohio State improved to 21-0 overall and 8-0 in Big Ten play after a complete annihilation of the Purdue Boilermakers on Tuesday night.

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?There?s a reason why they are number one,? Purdue senior big man JaJuan Johnson after the 87-64 thrashing.

The final margin may have been 23, but that didn?t even begin to tell the story of how one-sided this wound up being almost from the time the ball was tossed up.

Purdue coach Matt Painter had no answers.

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http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebas...-reminiscent-of-2006-07-Florida-Gators-012511
 
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Dryden;1863470; said:
Just came up on my Twitter feed:

espn4d Pat Forde
Bombshell tonight out of East Lansing: Tom Izzo has booted Korie Lucious off the team for the remainder of the year.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Korie Lucious made one too many mistakes at Michigan State.

The junior guard was suspended for the rest of the season, another blow for the slumping Spartans.

"Man did I really mess up this time...off 2 the gym I go!," Lucious posted on his Twitter account shortly before the school announced his suspension late Tuesday night.

Lucious helped the Spartans reach the Final Four in each of the past two years.

"Unfortunately, Korie Lucious displayed conduct detrimental to the program," Izzo said in a statement issued by the school. "My focus is on this team for the remainder of the season."

The news released stated that the school and basketball program would have no further comment.

An East Lansing District Court clerk said Wednesday morning there were no active cases pending against Lucious.
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Jared Sullinger, Ohio State Buckeyes clearly will be a dangerous opponent in NCAA tournament
Dick Weiss
Thursday, January 27th 2011

Ohio State has always had a rich tradition in basketball, dating back to the Jerry Lucas-John Havlicek era in the early 1960s, but no one realistically thought the sport would ever become king on campus the way it has been at rival Indiana.

Football has always ruled Columbus, where the Buckeyes have won 35 Big Ten titles and seven national championships.

But, Thad Matta has temporarily pushed Jim Tressel onto the back pages of the Dispatch. His top-ranked Buckeyes (21-0) put on the most dominant performance of the season Tuesday night, thrashing 12th-ranked Purdue, 87-64, at the sold-out Schottenstein Center. We're not penciling OSU in as the national champ after just three weeks of conference play because we've seen the Buckeyes in close games against Illinois and Penn State, but there is little question here which team will be the most dangerous in the NCAA Tournament.

The Buckeyes are much better offensively than the 2007 team that featured 7-foot freshman center Greg Oden and freshman point guard Michael Conley Jr. and advanced to the national championship game. That is in large part because of 6-9, 270-pound freshman Jared Sullinger, the Buckeyes' second straight candidate for National Player of the Year honors, following in the footsteps of versatile 6-7 guard Evan Turner, who won the award last year as a junior before turning pro.

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/c...dangerous_opponent_in_ncaa.html#ixzz1CEqitcau
 
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Clearly, tempo is an important factor in the Buckeyes' performance.

A quick look at kenpom.com shows that, in the past 3 games (all excellent showings for our men), tempo has been fast: 70, 65 and 70 possessions. 1 Ohio State (21-0)

Pushing game tempo is something that will serve the Buckeye hoopsters well later this season.
 
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MaxBuck;1864146; said:
Clearly, tempo is an important factor in the Buckeyes' performance.

A quick look at kenpom.com shows that, in the past 3 games (all excellent showings for our men), tempo has been fast: 70, 65 and 70 possessions. 1 Ohio State (21-0)

Pushing game tempo is something that will serve the Buckeye hoopsters well later this season.
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Which means the Wisconsin game is going to be a cast-iron son of a bitch
 
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55-foot buzzer beater from the Manhattan/Marist game. Unfortunately this announcer is at the Paul Keels end of the spectrum when it comes to enthusiam. This is why we need to perfect cloning ... so every CBB game can be called by Gus Johnson.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUOj6Qwa5mg"]YouTube - Michael Alvarado's Walkoff 55-Footer Lifts Manhattan Over Marist[/ame]
 
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