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Big 10 Basketball 2009-2010

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buckeyesin07;1670823; said:
Turner's clearly the best player. But IMO, Hummel and Johnson are top 5 players in the Big Ten, and Moore is really, really close. So I think of the top 4 players on both teams, Purdue has three of the four. And I think that Grant may be just about as good as Lighty--they are pretty similar players, and I think Grant could do more if Purdue needed him to.

To answer your question as to why the teams are basically even, I think it's a combination of two things: (1) Matta's a better coach than Painter and (2) Turner is that much better than everyone else on the floor (at Purdue, he put the entire team on his back and willed us to victory--we lose that game by 15-20 without him).
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First, Lighty is much better than Grant. Lighty could do more if we needed him too (and did when Turner went out), as could Buford in my opinion. So out of the ten players that make up the starting 5 for both teams: Ohio State has the 1 by far, 5, 6, 7, 8 compared to Purdue's 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 in my opinion.

And Ohio State, defensively, can match up with them far better than Purdue can match up with us. The only place that Purdue can truly hurt us consistently is with Johnson

Matta is a better coach. I agree with that. But on point (2), Turner is a part of our starting 5 and he IS that much better than everyone else. No doubt.

I guess we just disagree.

Too bad Hummel's out, I'd love to see another game in the B10 championship.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1670825; said:
Is that Kramer kid a senior yet? God he's annoying.
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Not as annoying as that OSU fan in the student section with the 20-gallon foam cowboy hat. If he's really a student he's been going to Ohio State for 6 or 7 years now.
 
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Dryden;1670858; said:
Not as annoying as that OSU fan in the student section with the 20-gallon foam cowboy hat. If he's really a student he's been going to Ohio State for 6 or 7 years now.
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Or as annoying as the creepy football Buckeye fan that magically appeared at the last home game of the year.. in the student section.
 
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KingLeon;1670833; said:
Not as annoying as that one dude on Indiana awhile back. Anyone remember his name?
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are you speaking of Tom Coverdale?

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starBUCKS;1676833; said:
Tubby to Auburn - CBSSports.com

That seems like a step in the other direction.
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Dodd's unsubstantiated blog post should definitely have a question mark in its title. I'd guess Tubby will wait until Minnesota at least finishes tourney play before entertaining offers, but USA Today also mentions Oregon as a possible destination for Smith next year.

Also noteworthy: the "Gender" section of Dodd's cbssports profile was left blank.
 
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Posted: Tuesday March 23, 2010
Michael Rosenberg>INSIDE COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Big Ten may not look pretty, but conference produces winners

Can I get a round of applause for the Big Ten, please? We'll do it the Midwestern way, firmly but respectfully, and, in true Midwestern style, we won't say anything negative about the overrated Big East, at least not until we've gone home and shut all the blinds. It's not for me to judge, Doris, but they certainly do seem mouthy over there.

The Big Ten is sending three teams to the Sweet 16, more than any other conference. And two of those teams did it without their best players.

On the same floor in Spokane, Wash., Purdue beat Texas A&M without Robbie Hummel, and Michigan State beat ACC co-champ Maryland without Kalin Lucas. Hummel and Lucas are two of the top three players in the league. (The third is Evan Turner of fellow Sweet 16 entrant Ohio State.)

That, right there, sums up Big Ten basketball. The conference keeps winning despite everything it is not.

The Big Ten does not have a program like North Carolina, which seems to get the first four picks in the recruiting draft every year. Indiana, the Big Ten's flagship program, has not dominated since the early '90s.

The Big Ten has not been the most talented league in the country for years. It is not the most fertile ground for the NBA. It does not even produce many NCAA champions -- the Big Ten has not won a national title since 2000.

But no conference produces so many consistently good, fundamentally sound teams. Big Ten regular-season basketball can be as ugly as Big Ten winters, but the physical play and defensive mindset prepare Big Ten teams for March.

Since 2002, four Big Ten teams (Indiana, Illinois, Ohio State and Michigan State) have made it to the championship game. Let's face it: we could whittle Pac-10 basketball down to the Pac-4 and most of the country wouldn't even notice.
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Read More: Ohio St., Michigan St., Purdue lead Big Ten into the Sweet?16 - Michael Rosenberg - SI.com
 
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