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C Greg Oden (All B1G, All-American, Defensive Player of the Year, Butler Assistant Coach)

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Oden Earns First Big Ten Weekly Award
Freshman center averages double-double in two wins last week

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Greg Oden, a freshman center on the Ohio State men's basketball team, averaged a double-double last week in a pair of wins for the fifth-ranked Buckeyes to earn the Big Ten's Player of the Week honor, which he shares with Wisconsin's Alando Tucker this week, the league office announced Monday.

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Here's an article published a few weeks ago that talks about Oden's connection to his best friend... :(

Sixers Oden their breath

By Dick Jerardi
Philadelphia Daily News
January 17, 2007

PHILADELPHIA - While the Sixers are busy accumulating pingpong balls, Greg Oden is enjoying a season of college basketball and college. Only the stakes have changed since Oden discovered the game, as a fourth-grader in Terre Haute, Ind. Oden, by all accounts, has never changed. His game? That has changed.

Jimmy Smith is the executive director of the Terre Haute Boys and Girls Club. Shortly after Oden's parents split up and Oden's mother moved from Buffalo, N.Y., to Terre Haute, Smith became Oden's first coach. Oden is like a member of the Smith family.

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Hoopsfan, thanks for taking the time to share with us. We are truly sorry for your loss and please pass condolences along to the family for all of us here at this site. Knowing that he was GO's best friend tells us all we need to know about the young man. The family will be in my thoughts and prayers.
 
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Indiana car accident claims life of Oden?s best friend
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Being named Big Ten coplayer of the week in men?s basketball for the first time yesterday could not have meant less to Ohio State freshman Greg Oden, who lost a close friend during the weekend.

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Ohio State players Oden, Hunter mourn losses

Posted: Tuesday Jan 30, 2007 7:34 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -Ohio State center Greg Oden left the Buckeyes on Tuesday to return to his childhood home in Terre Haute, Ind., for the funeral of a close friend killed in a car accident last weekend.

Travis Smith, Oden's best friend from his adolescent years, was killed in an automobile accident on Saturday night in Muncie, Ind. Smith was a freshman at Ball State and a member of the golf team.

Also, junior forward Othello Hunter lost both a grandmother and a grandfather over the past week in their native Africa.


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OHIO STATE MEN?S BASKETBALL



Tragedy is the latest hurdle for Oden



Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Doug Lesmerises

Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus ? When Greg Oden celebrated his 19th birthday last week, Ohio State coach Thad Matta claimed he was throwing a lavish birthday party for his freshman star ? and waited a second before saying he was joking.
Freshman stud, huge bash, why not, right? When it comes to Oden, everything is super sized ? height, attention, expectation ? but Matta said Tuesday that he?s always known Oden to seek one thing....
 
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Oden best of elite group of college big men

19-year-old best, most scrutinized, center, stirring memories of Ewing


It?s fun every week to watch college basketball games, separate the top individual performances, and then vote for the Big Man on Campus. It leads us to other discussions, including the early favorite for Player of the Year, and who should be the No. 1 pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.
Wisconsin?s Alando Tucker quickly emerged as a strong POY candidate, although Texas freshman Kevin Durant is mounting a strong campaign as he rips through the Big 12 Conference like Superman in a Longhorns uniform.
But when it comes to the Biggest Man on Campus this season, isn?t that always going to be Ohio State freshman Greg Oden? Is any player under more scrutiny? Is any player more coveted by NBA scouts? Has any player been on more magazine covers? Has any player been asked to handle more attention at age 19?

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Every day is signing day
With rock star status, Oden must deal with autograph seekers wherever OSU goes

Saturday, February 03, 2007
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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Greg Oden signs autographs for fans following Ohio State?s game at Northwestern on Jan. 24.

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If you?d like to call Greg Oden in his hotel room this morning, to wish him good luck or whatever against Michigan State, don?t bother asking for him by name. You might as well try "Sultan of Swat." Oden, you see, did not spend last night with his teammates in East Lansing, Mich. Or, to be accurate, he was not registered at the team hotel.


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OSU's Oden says friend's death hit him hard
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COLUMBUS - Ohio State center Greg Oden said today that the death of his best friend stayed in his mind more than he expected when he took the court against Purdue on Wednesday night.

Speaking publicly for the first time since the death of Travis Smith, 19, in a car accident Saturday, Oden said serving as a pallbearer at Smith?s funeral on Wednesday morning and playing Wednesday night was difficult.

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Oden: 'I've got to keep living'

Buckeyes freshman will count on his teammates for support following his best friend's death.


By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer

Saturday, February 03, 2007

COLUMBUS ? Greg Oden liked giving Ohio State basketball tickets to his best friend, Travis Smith.
"He came to a lot of games, actually," Oden said Thursday at the Schottenstein Center. "He didn't get to come to the Michigan State game 'cause my grandmother was here, and she was going to come to the game.

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