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Men's Basketball Buckeye Tidbits 2006-2007 Season

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4/7/06

Plenty to see when Buckeyes stop here

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April 7, 2006 BY MICHAEL O'BRIEN Staff Reporter

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The future of college basketball will be on display Sunday afternoon in the Roundball Classic at the United Center. Four members of Ohio State's highly publicized recruiting class, dubbed the "Thad Five,'' are playing in the game.

"It's as impressive a recruiting contingent as I've ever seen in the history of the Roundball game,'' talent scout Bob Gibbons said.

Mike Conley, from Indianapolis Lawrence North, and Daequan Cook, from Dayton, Ohio, are two of the best guards in the country. David Lighty is a spectacular 6-5 forward from Cleveland, and the jewel of the class is Greg Oden, Lawrence North's 7-foot center.

"There aren't enough adjectives to describe Oden,'' Gibbons said. "I rate him as the best big man I've seen since Lew Alcindor.''

Oden's last trip to Chicago was a success. He led Lawrence North to a victory over Glenbrook North in front of a capacity crowd at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

"Oden is unbelievable,'' said former Virginia and Providence coach Pete Gillen, who will do color commentary for the CSTV telecast of the game. "I can't think of anyone like him in the past 15 years. He's so athletic, and he's a winner.''

All four Ohio State recruits will play for the West team.

"It's the most remarkable featured team I've ever seen in an all-star game,'' Gibbons said.

"[Roundball founder] Sonny [Vaccaro] is the best when it comes to his matchups.''

Marshall guard Patrick Beverley, one of the top unsigned players in the country, joins the Ohio State recruits on the West team.

Former Farragut guard Chris Singletary, who spent his senior season playing for Florida Prep, will play for the East.

Singletary recently decommitted from Missouri after coach Quin Snyder left.

The East team has plenty of size to use against Oden. Proviso East center Brian Carlwell is the tallest at 6-11. The East also has three 6-10 players: Curtis Kelly (New York), Alex Stepheson (Los Angeles) and Perry Stevenson (Lafayette, La.).

Derrick Caracter (Fanwood, N.J.), Darrell Arthur (Dallas) and Earl Clark (Rahway, N.J.) all stand 6-9.

"It's a great experience for these kids, the culmination of their high school careers,'' Gillen said. "They get a chance to play on national television, and it's great promotion for college basketball.''

Tickets for the Roundball Classic are still available. Visit the United Center ticket office, call Ticketmaster at (312) 559-1212 or visit

www.roundballclassic.net. [email protected]
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Vitale compared oden to being another ewing and I halfly disagree with that.

Size wise yes but, Oden has that size with Kevin Garnett/david robinson athletics now and he's only 17

which is going to be fun to watch in the future

Vitale doesn't show OSU love like he does all the other top programs

I loved how Digger talked OSU up BIG TIME all the time during the NCAA work he did. :osu:
 
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bucknuts44820 said:
"There aren't enough adjectives to describe Oden,'' Gibbons said. "I rate him as the best big man I've seen since Lew Alcindor.''
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Please stop posting stuff like this. I have a lot of work to do and it is no good for one's concentration. There's a lot of BPers that could be without jobs as a result!!!

Just bloody imagine this class. Wow!
 
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2007 NCAA Basketball Championship Odds

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Florida 7-1
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North Carolina 7-1
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Kansas 8-1
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Ohio St 8-1
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UCLA 10-1
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LSU 15-1
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Texas 15-1
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Duke 20-1
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Memphis 20-1
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U Conn 20-1
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Georgetown 25-1
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Arizona 30-1
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Gonzaga 30-1
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Kentucky 30-1
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Louisville 30-1
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Arkansas 40-1
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Alabama 50-1
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Illinois 50-1
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Pittsburgh 50-1
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Tennessee 50-1
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Washington 50-1
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Field (Any Other Team) 50-1
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I think there are quite a few teams next year that could win it all. I think UNC is the team that is most likely to beat us in the tournament next year. I think UF vs OSU would be a great game as well. I just don't know if you have enough experience. Talented Freshmen going against talented Juniors is a tough task.
 
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4/14/06


Anyone hoping for a free sneak preview of Greg Oden and other members of Ohio State’s heralded basketball recruiting class in the Worthington summer league isn’t likely to get it.

Oden and high-school teammate Mike Conley Jr. of Indianapolis will be tied up through June playing in a series of allstar games matching Indiana’s seniors against Kentucky’s seniors.

Oden also has been invited to join two-dozen college and NBA stars in July at a USA Basketball training camp, which will produce the team that will play in the FIBA World Championship in August.

A third member of the recruiting class, David Lighty of Cleveland, is expected to try out in June for the USA Basketball Under-18 team, which will play in the FIBA Americas Championship.

Oden, Conley, Lighty and fellow incoming freshman Daequan Cook played on the same team for the first time Sunday in the Roundball Classic all-star game in Chicago. The fifth starter was 6-foot-9 forward Lance Thomas of Newark, N.J., who just happens to be one of two top-10 prospects for 2006 who have yet to sign with a school.
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I think there are quite a few teams next year that could win it all. I think UNC is the team that is most likely to beat us in the tournament next year. I think UF vs OSU would be a great game as well. I just don't know if you have enough experience. Talented Freshmen going against talented Juniors is a tough task.
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This coming from a fan of a team that just won it all with one of the youngest teams in the tourney.:biggrin:

We have a couple Juniors and a senior or two that are going to help with experience, and Oden is wise beyond his years.
 
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Dispatch

4/28/06

The NCAA board of directors yesterday rescinded its rule limiting men’s basketball teams to two exempted tournaments every four years. Now teams can play in one every year, but not the same one more than once over four years.

That frees up Ohio State to enter a tournament next season, and the Buckeyes are looking at playing host to one of two events sponsored by the Black Coaches Association: the BCA Classic or BCA Invitational. Each has eight teams and would be played over three days in mid-November in Value City Arena.
It would provide coach Thad Matta’s freshmen phenoms the opportunity to play three earlyseason games in as many days against good but not great competition. Six of the eight teams in each event last season were mid- or low-major schools. One of the high majors, Washington, played host to the BCA Classic and won it by defeating Morgan State, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Air Force.
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4/30/06

Buckeyes schedule a visit to Tar Heels


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By Jeff Carlton
Staff Writer

Ohio State will visit North Carolina this year in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge basketball game that will match the nation's top-rated freshman classes, officials from UNC and ESPN confirmed Friday.

The conferences are expected to announce the complete pairings and dates next week, but a Wake Forest spokesman confirmed Friday night that the Deacons will not participate in this year's Challenge.

North Carolina, at 2-5, is one of the few ACC schools to have fared poorly in the challenge, which began in 1999 and will continue at least through 2010. Of course, the Tar Heels' name recognition and TV ratings potential have basically guaranteed them a difficult matchup each year.

This time, it will be the convergence of loaded recruiting classes. Ohio State will bring Greg Oden, Mike Conley and Daequan Cook to Chapel Hill, while the Heels will feature high school All-Americans Tywon Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Brandan Wright.

Larry Gallo, senior associate athletics director at North Carolina, said the appeal to ESPN was simple.

"These guys will be out there for their first big-time game on the national stage," he said.

Actually, the Heels' newcomers will have played in the Preseason NIT by then. The field will be announced in two to three weeks, according to an NCAA spokesman.

When they last played in the Preseason NIT, in 2002, the Heels beat Kansas, then coached by Roy Williams, in a semifinal and Stanford in the championship game.
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Dispatch

5/5/06


MEN’S BASKETBALL

OSU may hit road to Florida next season

Gators could be on challenging schedule

Friday, May 05, 2006

Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Thad Matta won’t pamper his babies.

The Ohio State men’s basketball coach, who has one of the nation’s two best recruiting classes arriving next season, said he had nothing to do with matching up the freshmen against North Carolina in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

But he has everything to do with throwing them in against Florida, which will return all five starters from the team that won the NCAA championship in April.

"There’s a strong possibility" the Buckeyes and Gators will meet next season in Gainesville, Fla., Matta said yesterday, though he added that not everything with the agreement was "locked down" yet.

"We’ve wanted to play a game in Florida for our alumni. We have a tremendous alumni base down there," he said. "Obviously, you’ve got two of the biggest challenges because I think Florida and North Carolina will be (ranked) one and two in the country. But to have that challenge for our young guys early in the season will be good."

It would be the first time Ohio State has scheduled the defending NCAA champion for a nonconference game since 1996, when it played Kentucky and lost 81-65 in the Rock-NRoll Shootout in Cleveland.

"And the good thing about the Florida game is it will be returned," Matta said.

The agreement would bring the Gators to Value City Arena during the 2007-08 season.

Whether North Carolina visits Columbus in 2007 is up to ESPN, which determines the matchups for the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. There is precedent for back-to-back meetings in the made-for-television event, but an ESPN spokesman said the network will not decide on the 2007 matchups until next spring.

As for this season, a trip to Gainesville would take Ohio State away from home for its three most-anticipated nonconference games. Besides Florida and North Carolina, the Buckeyes will play Cincinnati for the first time since 1962 but in Indianapolis, as part of the Wooden Tradition doubleheader.

Matta confirmed that the home schedule will include games against Iowa State, San Francisco, Coppin State, Youngstown State and three yet-tobe-announced opponents in a Black Coaches Association tournament Nov. 10-12, the opening weekend of the season. He said the Youngstown State game probably will be in Nationwide Arena.

The complete schedule has not been completed, but the Buckeyes will play 13 nonconference games and 16 in the Big Ten. Illinois and Minnesota are the two Big Ten teams that will not play in Value City Arena next season.
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