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2024-2025 Ohio State Men's Basketball

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Fungo Squiggly said:
Like these kids were even alive when Scoonie was playing for OSU. :sad3:
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How dare you! You, you...ageist!

Wait, it occurs to me that some folks here may remember Penn better than games last week. I withdraw my complaint.
 
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Steve19 said:
How dare you! You, you...ageist!

Wait, it occurs to me that some folks here may remember Penn better than games last week. I withdraw my complaint.
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When you say ‘Penn’, do you mean the time those Ivy Leaguers shut out the Buckeyes in the ‘Shoe in 1932? We are 0-4 all time against those Quakers and I want revenge!
 
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brodybuck21 said:
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I was just about to post something about this. 3 B1G road wins in JANUARY, the cursed month.

It seems to me that this team has found something with adding Ivan N to the rotation - he does give them a little bit different presence inside defensively, plus 5 extra fouls (which they also really need in the B1G since Stewart and Bradshaw pick up fouls like crazy). With rotating 3 bigs, they can consistently keep up the pressure inside defensively & withstand the foul trouble that they tend to get.
 
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DZ83CK said:
It seems to me that this team has found something with adding Ivan N to the rotation - he does give them a little bit different presence inside defensively, plus 5 extra fouls (which they also really need in the B1G since Stewart and Bradshaw pick up fouls like crazy). With rotating 3 bigs, they can consistently keep up the pressure inside defensively & withstand the foul trouble that they tend to get.
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The three-headed big does seem to be working. It’s crazy cause, other than five fouls, what they bring to the court couldn’t be any different.
 
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Jake Diebler Excited That Ohio State is Playing “Meaningful Games” in February, Wants Buckeyes to Play “Smarter”​

By Andy Anders on February 3, 2025 at 3:40 pm @andyanders55
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Ohio State's engines ran out of fuel at Illinois to snap a three-game winning streak on Sunday, but the Buckeyes are still in a solid position this season.
Entrenched on the NCAA Tournament bubble, Jake Diebler's squad is hovering just one game below .500 in Big Ten play. Getting back to that landmark will be no small feat, however.
Maryland comes to Value City Arena on Thursday a bit more than two months after handing Ohio State one of its worst losses of the season on Dec. 4. The Terrapins smacked the Buckeyes 83-59 in a game that wasn't even as close as that score indicates. Diebler's young squad has made massive strides since that contest, but the rematch will be a test of all of them.
One day after Ohio State's loss to the Fighting Illini and three days before the Buckeyes face Maryland, Diebler met with the media to discuss where things stand with his team. He wants to see his bunch play "smarter" with fewer turnovers, fouls and poor shots, also emphasizing their movement on offense as a chance at revenge awaits.
“Right now, we have everything to play for. Everything is right in front of us. We've positioned ourselves well enough to be playing really meaningful games right now. Every game is important.”– Jake Diebler
Ohio State is in NCAA Tournament conversation during the month of February, something that could not be said in either of its past two seasons. Diebler acknowledged there are a few results he'd like to have back from earlier in the campaign but a strong close to his first year at the helm will have the Buckeyes dancing for the first time since 2022.
“Naturally, there is. We're really a completely different team than we were then. But make no mistake, we haven't forgotten about that.”– Jake Diebler on if there's a revenge element to playing Maryland
Handling Maryland's frontcourt will be key to generating a different result from last time, when a 34-7 first-half run had the Terrapins up 50-17 at halftime. Ohio State's coalesced much better on both sides of the ball since then, especially toward the end of January, but Thursday provides a direct litmus test.
“We gotta play a little bit smarter. Some of it's shot selection at times, and some of our turnovers. Some of it's execution defensively, the communication at times, or fouling. We're having some fouls that, it’s almost a mental lapse for a second.”– Jake Diebler on where his team still needs to grow
Diebler praised the toughness, togetherness and energy his team has played with recently, but there are still mental mistakes he wants to see rectified. He said there are two to five possessions a game where the Buckeyes are bailing out opponents with fouls. To him, it's the next step for his squad to take.

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Jake Diebler Excited That Ohio State is Playing “Meaningful Games” in February, Wants Buckeyes to Play “Smarter”

Jake Diebler says Ohio State is a “completely different team” from when it last faced Maryland but adds that the Buckeyes have to play “smarter” as the season continues.
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Ohio State Showing Newfound Unbreakable Will Under Jake Diebler in Big Ten Play​

By Andy Anders on February 7, 2025 at 11:27 am @andyanders55
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Watching Maryland take the floor against Ohio State on Thursday felt like the entrance of Ivan Drago before his climactic fight with Rocky Balboa in "Rocky IV."
Drago had been built throughout that movie as more robot than human. He killed Rocky’s rival-turned-mentor, Apollo Creed, in the second round of an exhibition bout. As Creed lay bleeding and breathless in the ring, Drago stated five words devoid of emotion into a microphone and television cameras, “If he dies, he dies.” The movie’s famed training montage contrasted Rocky running up mountains and chopping wood with Drago having steroids injected into his thigh and a surrounding of machinery for every run, punch and weightlifting rep.
Drago walked into the arena before rowdy home fans stoic before the pair’s fight, and as expected from a Hollywood script, he beat Rocky to a pulp in the first round, knocking him down. Still, Rocky walked back out for the same round that killed Creed and after surviving another barrage, cut the Russian beneath his left eye with a massive right hook. The movie then flipped the machine motif on its head.
“He’s not human,” Drago said in his corner after the round. “He’s like a piece of iron.”

No. 18 Maryland entered Value City Arena on Thursday with an 83-59 evisceration of Ohio State at home in its back pocket. Like Drago towering above Rocky, the Terrapins held an imposing size advantage over the Buckeyes in the frontcourt, as OSU power forward Devin Royal (6-6, 220) matched up with Julian Reese (6-9, 252) and center Sean Stewart (6-9, 220) with Derik Queen (6-10, 246).
The Buckeyes weathered their own barrage of punches, Maryland opening on a 15-2 run and holding a 17-point advantage at one stage in the first half. But Ohio State’s comeback for a 73-70 win flexed the unbreakable will Diebler’s team has shown as his first full Big Ten slate has worn on.
"I just want you to understand how connected and tough this group is," Diebler said after the game. "I thought that was on full display tonight. Maybe we lacked a little bit of that early, but it took everything we had from a toughness and a togetherness (standpoint) to come back, win this game against this team who's arguably playing some of the best basketball in the league right now."
As counterintuitive as it may seem from a 24-point loss, one of the earliest examples of Ohio State demonstrating its toughness this season was in its first matchup with Maryland.
The Buckeyes played one of their worst halves of basketball in the first 20 minutes against the Terrapins on Dec. 4 and entered halftime trailing 50-17. That lead ballooned to 55-17 at the start of the second period, but Ohio State outscored Maryland by 14 points from there. It was an ultimately meaningless gesture considering the game in its totality, but at the very least, Diebler’s team didn’t quit.

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Ohio State Showing Newfound Unbreakable Will Under Jake Diebler in Big Ten Play

Ohio State's comeback win over Maryland showcased an intangible toughness and will that Jake Diebler's squad is building in Big Ten play.
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