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Iona +13.5 vs tOSU at Dayton (ov/un 145.5) Fri 7:15 pm CBS

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Iona comments give Buckeyes a bull?s-eye
By STEVE SERBY
Last Updated: March 22, 2013

DAYTON, Ohio ? It?s terrific that Iona believes, believes it can shock big, bad Ohio State and shock the world tonight. It?s what March Madness is all about, especially this March, when there are no John Wooden UCLA Bruins, no 1976 Indiana Hoosiers.

One problem: Iona has awakened a sleeping giant.

The Post has learned that copies of Wednesday?s Post, in which the Gaels talked the talked, were placed in the lockers of each Buckeyes player Wednesday.

Aaron Craft, the rosy-cheeked former schoolboy quarterback/safety who will doggedly be checking Momo Jones? tonsils, had his back to the wall when a man with a camera began: ?LaQuinton Ross said that he passed around the article out of the New York Post with Iona talking about being a confident team and expecting to win ? what are your thoughts on that? Is that bulletin board material, or is that just what happens in high level basketball??

?It is what it is,? Craft said. ?They have a lot of confidence, and I think we have cause to have a lot of confidence, too. We?ve been playing really good basketball, and hopefully it continues.?

Craft said he was aware of what the Gaels said in the article.

?We saw it, we read it. ... It?s been in the locker room, that?s all it is.?

Could that be used as motivation?

?I think we?re trying to keep us as even as possible, we don?t want to go out too excited, too hyped up on anything really, and that?s something that can really kinda get us out of our game trying to do too much,? Craft said, ?so we?re just trying to focus on what we need to do, and let the basketball talk for itself.?

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http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/coll...nts_give_buckeyes_bull_RfZZj1GCxvZ3TLvoUy0BtJ
 
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buckeyesin07;2318172; said:
Eh, a certain team heading back to Vegas right now has a ton of talent too.

Iona lost 6 of 7 in the MAAC at one point this year. Yes, you read that correctly. 6 of 7. In the MAAC.
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Look up that streak of losses; it is crazy. 3 of those 6 losses were in OT. The largest margin of defeat in any of those was 3, which I am not defending Iona, just that that is amazing to lose that many games in a row by so little. In fact, Kenpom has them in the bottom 10 in the nation in luck, which I am not sure how he calculates it, but that is unfortunate for them.
 
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NastyNatiBuck;2318198; said:
Look up that streak of losses; it is crazy. 3 of those 6 losses were in OT. The largest margin of defeat in any of those was 3, which I am not defending Iona, just that that is amazing to lose that many games in a row by so little. In fact, Kenpom has them in the bottom 10 in the nation in luck, which I am not sure how he calculates it, but that is unfortunate for them.
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...so that means what? That Iona is "unlucky," that they can't close out close games? Either way, you're helping me prove my point that even if your post was true (that Iona has better talent than most other 15 seeds), it doesn't matter if you can't win games with that talent.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I'm calling it right now. This will be a plunger game. Fuck Iona.

"Iona" What kind of name is Iona. From their college stats, it would appear that a lot of them Ona 20 on their ACTs.
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I especially agree if Iona tries to run and gun with Ohio State. I think they might be comparable to season teams that we played before the Big Ten and we all know what happened in those games.
 
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LitlBuck said:
I especially agree if Iona tries to run and gun with Ohio State. I think they might be comparable to season teams that we played before the Big Ten and we all know what happened in those games.
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DAYTON — Thad Matta isn’t one to live outside the moment. But the Ohio State coach has gone back in time recently to try to make a point with his players about making the most of this moment in their lives.

“The last couple of years, we’ve had a bad half of basketball that ended our season,” he has told them. “Slip-ups cost you.”

The Buckeyes haven’t slipped in weeks. They have won eight games in a row heading into their NCAA Tournament opener against Iona tonight at University of Dayton Arena and in the process have become a trendy Final Four pick out of the West Regional, in which they are the No. 2 seed behind Gonzaga.

Matta said he has talked to them “continuously” about not dropping their guard against anyone, starting with the 15th-seeded Gaels.

“We got together Monday night,” Matta said before the team bused to Dayton yesterday, “and that was the gist of what we were talking about: what a great run we’re on. It’s not time to celebrate that now. It’s not time to change who this basketball team is. It’s not time to try to be somebody you’re not. …

“We have to do what we do. There are a couple standards in this program, and let’s make sure we play by them no matter who we’re playing.”
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/03/22/keep-guard-up-matta-tells-buckeyes.html
 
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