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#7 Georgetown 70, #2 Ohio State 52 - NCAA Tournament (Final)

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Time changed for Ohio State vs. Georgetown
The Columbus Dispatch
Saturday, March 18, 2006

The NCAA and CBS changed the starting times for many of Sunday's NCAA Tournament games, including Ohio State's second-round matchup against Georgetown.
The Buckeyes, seeded second in the Minneapolis Regional, will face seventh-seeded Georgetown at about 4:40 p.m. in the University of Dayton Arena. The game will follow the North Carolina-George Mason matchup, scheduled for 2:20 p.m.
Other Sunday game times are as follows: Bradley vs. Pittsburgh, 12:10 p.m.; Memphis vs. Bucknell, 2:15 p.m.; Connecticut vs. Kentucky, 2:30 p.m.; Northwestern State vs. West Virginia, approximately 2:30 p.m.; Texas vs. North Carolina State, approximately 4:35 p.m.; and Villanova vs. Arizona, approximately 5 p.m.
 
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If I'm not mistaken, its sounds like we haven't played a team this bad a defending the 3 since we played at scUM. I think we either use GW to break out of the slump and make the final 4 or we leave sunday. I dont see use shooting bad and winning against a team that has enough inside to take on Dials.
 
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it is up to us and indiana to represent the Big Ten, even more incentive to win.

but for some crazy reason i see us breaking out of our three point slump and take this game. either way, like stated earlier, if we don't start tomorrow there will be no day after. and with florida going to the winner, we better get things turned around if we want to go anywhere.

i have a lot of faith in Matta and what he has done in past NCAA tournaments as well as with this team already this year. if there is someone who can pull out the win from a coaching standpoint i have a lot of faith in Matta.
 
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dials and twigs need to be huge in this game. i know gtown is not that great defensively on the perimeter but honestly at the moment we are nothing special on the outside either so we dont know what kind of team will show up yet. gtown is a very dangerous team. i think the x factor will actually be if hibbert gets into foul trouble. he seems to get into foul trouble quite a few times and gtown is significantly weaker with him on the bench. other than that i just wish the team would go to dials more. i dotn want to abandon the threes at all but we need to take the higher percentage shot with dials or whomever when we are off occasionally. this is exactly why davidson gave a us a scare.
 
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I think we will beat Georgetown convincingly. According to Ken Pomeroy's rankings, they are ranked #130 in their last five games. I think we will get good match-ups in the paint and that our guards will do a bit better in their shooting today.

Further progress, however, is questionable unless we shoot better. Florida is ranked #1 for the last five games and we have been languishing around #42. We rely on the 3 pointer and we need to sink them; failing to do so will sink us.

I am wondering how much of this shooting problem is due to the entire NCAA controversy. Has this team got it into its head that its somehow guilty of something or that they are not "the good guys" anymore? If it isn't that, then what is in their heads? Is it fatigue?

Whatever it is, no more home court or near home court advantage after this game and the Buckeyes need to sink their threes to advance.

Personally, I think everything relies on their heads and not on their shot mechanics. I am praying that they have a good opening against GW and get some confidence back. Foster especially must return to form if we are to have a chance at the final four.
 
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