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Still fortitudinous
Can someone post how many rebounds and blocks Oden has? Thanks.
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OhioState49;684113; said:This game was televised for me, and I was quite surprised. Anyways, I was amazed of how good Greg Oden was. The first 12 points was mainly all him, and how he did it was amazing!
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My great great uncle Clifford Heffelfinger (#45) played at OSU in 1939. And my cousin Evan Jablonka (#84) plays right now.
OHIO STATE 78 CLEVELAND STATE 57
Oden plays big role
Buckeyes excel with 7-foot freshman on floor; Hunter, Harris also deliver
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Ohio State?s Ivan Harris beats Cleveland State?s Joe Davis to the ball in the second half. Harris had a career-high 10 rebounds.
Ohio State?s Greg Oden smothers a shot by Cleveland State?s Renard Fields in the second half.
It didn?t take the Ohio State men?s basketball team long to learn to play with its new Big Boy toy.
The challenge for the fifth-ranked Buckeyes yesterday was remembering how to play without Greg Oden.
They worked all week to integrate the 7-foot freshman into the mix after he made his debut, and fewer than four minutes into the game against Cleveland State, they led 12-0. Oden, in his first start, had six points (including two dunks), two rebounds and an assist.
Then he went to the bench, and in four minutes, the lead was down to 16-10. It was the way it went for the next two hours. Ohio State outscored the Vikings by 17 points with Oden and by four without him in a 78-57 victory in Value City Arena.
"Our intentions were to leave him in a little bit longer," coach Thad Matta said, but Oden picked up one foul less than a minute into the game and a second in the first 10. "He didn?t play quite as many minutes as I wanted to play him."
Oden scored 16 points in 22 minutes, making all eight of his shots from the field to enter the record book in just his second game. Only four other Buckeyes were perfect from the field with eight or more attempts: Jerry Lucas, John Havlicek, Brian Brown and J.J. Sullinger.
"I played all right," Oden said. "These two guys? rebounding was the highlight of the game."
The two guys who joined Oden at a postgame interview, 6-9 Othello Hunter and 6-8 Ivan Harris, combined for 25 points and 21 rebounds as Ohio State (8-1) outscored the Vikings (5-6) by 24 points in the lane and outrebounded them by 24.
Hunter came off the bench for his first double-double ? 17 points and 11 rebounds in only 13 minutes ? and Harris had a career-high 10 rebounds to overshadow a 3-of-11 iceberg from the field.
"The kid I thought did an outstanding job when he was on the floor was Hunter," Cleveland State coach Gary Waters said. "We did not put a lot of emphasis on (preparing for) him."
J?Nathan Bullock led Cleveland State with 21 points. The Vikings lost their secondleading scorer, guard Victor Morris, to a foot injury in the first half.
Matta?s preferred routine of rotating nine players went up in smoke in the first half after Oden, Hunter, Daequan Cook and David Lighty played six minutes or less after incurring two fouls apiece. All except Hunter were out of the game before 10 minutes were off the game clock. Hunter exited at 7:28.
The Buckeyes led by only nine points 4 1 /2 minutes into the second half before Hunter scored every point in an 8-0 run that hiked their advantage to 58-41 with 11:30 left. The margin was double figures the rest of the way.
Hunter scored four of the eight points playing in tandem with Oden for the first time. He had played center exclusively until then.
"I liked it," said Hunter, who was recruited out of junior college to play power forward. "It?s kind of easy because most guys, if me and (Oden) are in there, they?ll go for him and double him. I?ll be wide open, and if it?s a missed shot, I can get the easy rebound."
Matta liked the Buckeyes? 45-21 rebounding advantage. He didn?t like their 19 turnovers, the most since they gave the ball up 26 times in a helter-skelter opener against VMI a month ago.
"Cleveland State did a very similar thing to what Valparaiso did last weekend in trying to slow the tempo down," Matta said. "As I told the guys after the game, we can?t let that take away from our concentration. We had too many unforced or undisciplined errors.
"We don?t want to do that. The way we?ve shot the ball this year, we need to make sure we get shots at the basket."
Ohio State shot better than 50 percent from the field for the eighth time in nine games.
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
#3. i suppose i could call him ivan harris, but no one would recognize his game by that name. ivan shot poorly from the field, was worse from behind the line. though he had another great game. 10 boards, boxing out, played some very solid defense. a side note, i knew he threw nice entry passes, but no questions best entry passer at this point on the team. more on ivan in a bit