Ky +5.5 vs tOSU (ov/un 137.5) Fri 9:45 ET, CBS

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Quote from Calipari:

(Teams) want to be us. Understand that: They want to be us. Not beat us. Be us. So they're coming at you, trying to say, ?You win against Kentucky, it shows that we're them.' So everybody we play is going to bring it and bring it at a high level. That includes the Buckeyes.

Why would we want to be a team that loses in the Sweet Sixteen?

Thanks for the motivation though.

 

[Meyer]

haha we want to be Kentucky?

No. Keep living in la la land.

Ohio State is, has, and will continue to be better than Kentucky.

And you'll wish you were us when after Friday night your team is sent back into irrelevance where you belong.

Go suck LeBron's dick, Calipari.

 

[Meyer]

Honestly, sounds to me like Calipari is scared.

 

[PtownBuckeye]

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/03/22/sports/s115939D69.DTL#ixzz1HMaD07H2

How fitting that when he first arrived at Ohio State, Matta used Kentucky as one of the templates for what he wanted to construct.

"When I came here, I looked at what a Kentucky had done, what a North Carolina had done, and those things weren't built over night, and not in a decade. It took several decades," the thinning-haired, 43-year-old native of the aptly named Hoopeston, Ill., said Tuesday. "When we came in here seven years ago, Ohio State had a 51-percent winning percentage in the Big Ten. We knew we had our work cut out for us in building this thing."

Likely in response to what Thad said in this article Buckskin86 posted in Thad's thread.

What an arrogant piece of shit.

 

[BUCKYLE]

I guess Joey Dorsey wasn't available for comment this time around.

 

[Emperor Brutus]

Matta > Calipari

 

[colobuck79]

Am I the only one that noticed that Ashley is masterbating on that magazine cover?

 

[Buckeye86]

Am I the only one that noticed that Ashley is masterbating on that magazine cover?

Talking about it without re-posting the picture.

I'm kinda amazed they have enough shit going on in Kentucky to fill a monthly publication. At some point you have to run out of stories about horses and basketball.

 

[Nicknam4]

Tempted to go all in, but last time I did that Wisconsin lost to TCU.


I am very confident about this one. Bucks win 76-61

 

[Jaxbuck]

(Teams) want to be us. Understand that: They want to be us. Not beat us. Be us. So they're coming at you, trying to say, ?You win against Kentucky, it shows that we're them.' So everybody we play is going to bring it and bring it at a high level. That includes the Buckeyes.

Reminds of of RR saying his WVU teams were like the NY Yankees.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Talking about it without re-posting the picture.

I'm kinda amazed they have enough shit going on in Kentucky to fill a monthly publication. At some point you have to run out of stories about horses and basketball.

FTR, when you've got that to put on a cover, you make up stories about horses and basketball.

 

[dkbuckeyes]

I just hope Diebler, Buford, Craft and Thomas keep hitting the 3's. It will be a long night for Funkucky!!:osu:

 

[generaladm]

My neighbor is a die-hard UK fan, and I got to pick his brain a bit while we were watching the UK/WVU game. I think the best case scenario for OSU is if Brandon Knight thinks he has to win the game by himself. There was a marked difference in that game when he got the ball fed to him, rather than trying to create off the dribble. I gathered that his insistence on forcing plays was a season long problem, and probably one that gets worse when he gets frustrated. It will be important for Craft to play D with his feet and avoid cheap reach-in fouls. Knight will get calls if Aaron plays too aggressive, so AC should stay in front of him and deny easy looks. Knight will beat AC occasionally, but there will be more times that he makes his move and has no where to go. Aaron needs to stay on the floor, and I wouldn't mind at all if he starts in place of Dallas.

 

[BrutusBobcat]

Not that it has any bearing on this game, but Ohio State is 5-0 all time against Kentucky in NCAA tournament games.

 

[majorpayne27]

My neighbor is a die-hard UK fan, and I got to pick his brain a bit while we were watching the UK/WVU game. I think the best case scenario for OSU is if Brandon Knight thinks he has to win the game by himself. There was a marked difference in that game when he got the ball fed to him, rather than trying to create off the dribble. I gathered that his insistence on forcing plays was a season long problem, and probably one that gets worse when he gets frustrated. It will be important for Craft to play D with his feet and avoid cheap reach-in fouls. Knight will get calls if Aaron plays too aggressive, so AC should stay in front of him and deny easy looks. Knight will beat AC occasionally, but there will be more times that he makes his move and has no where to go. Aaron needs to stay on the floor, and I wouldn't mind at all if he starts in place of Dallas.

I definitely agree about AC, and I think it goes for Lighty as well. Knight and Jones are really the only players for UK that can take over a game. If AC can frustrate BK, Kentucky will struggle to get things going, and it would be tough for UK to overcome that. If Lighty can stay out of foul trouble I doubt Jones will kill us too much, he doesn't really light it up against decent defenders. That being said, about 35 ppg comes from the Jones/Knight duo, so limiting them is going to be huge.

AC starting wouldn't be a bad idea, just to limit BK from getting going early, but Dallas can be pretty effective at limiting slashers like Knight. Dallas completely broke Penn State's will when he came in and started blocking Battle and Frazier's drives to the basket in the B10 title game, and I think he could be able to do the same to Knight.

My other concern is Diebler's defense. JD usually takes whoever the unathletic guard is on the opposing team, but Kentucky doesn't really have that guy. Doron Lamb probably fits the profile more than anyone, but he can go to the basket which JD struggles with. The task for JD will be to limit Lamb's three-point efficiency, as he is a guy that can go off from behind the arc. They could also put him on Liggins but Liggins is taller than most of JD's defensive assignments, so my guess would be that Willy B draws that matchup.

Kentucky does scare me. I might be alone here, but if we win I will actually feel better about Sunday's potential matchup with UNC (who I think we match up with well). Kentucky is just very long, and, like us, when things are clicking they score from everywhere (except Harrelson, although he's not bad either).

I think we will win because I think we're significantly better than Kentucky defensively. Kentucky is athletic enough to play good defense, but they're not very smart on the court. Harrellson will probably give Sullinger some trouble, but we should have plenty of open looks. Hopefully we knock them down, and prevent Knight/Jones from lighting it up.