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Men's Basketball Buckeye Tidbits 2007-08 Season

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Florida, Ohio State try to replace departed stars

Both teams in last season's national title game forced to rebuild

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Billy Donovan and Thad Matta shared a laugh this week over how young their teams are heading into the season.
It might not be so funny a few months from now.
Donovan lost Al Horford, Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer and Taurean Green after Florida?s second straight national championship in April. Matta said goodbye to Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr. and Daequan Cook following Ohio State?s runner-up finish.
The NBA draft wiped out both programs, leaving them with plenty of youth and even more uncertainty as they begin daunting rebuilding tasks.
?It?s hard to play in the national championship game and then fly under the radar,? Matta said.
Maybe so, but it?s happening in Gainesville and Columbus, Ohio.

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Matta's Buckeyes have fully reloaded

Most programs would be gutted after losing the guys who delivered 88 percent of the points, 85 percent of the rebounds and 80 percent of the assists in the previous year's NCAA Tournament title game.
But at Ohio State, watching three freshmen become the NBA's first, fourth and 21st draft picks represents little more than a hiccup.
Of course, Buckeyes coach Thad Matta will try to tell you his new squad has a long row to hoe. He's trying to cross-pollinate five freshmen and two transfers with four returnees, after all.
"They don't even know what to say," said Matta, claiming they're still working on such basics as calling out screens on defense.
But the national recruiting analysts will remind you Matta enlisted the country's fifth-best crop of newcomers in order to keep Ohio State's perennials blooming.

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OSU basketball starts out, starts near the top
Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 11.06.2007


[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]COLUMBUS ? If Ohio State?s men?s basketball team thought it could go back to sneaking up on people this season, those days are gone.
If the Buckeyes thought they could draw the ?no respect? card out of the pile and play it this winter, they were mistaken.
Even though Shawnee High School?s Jamar Butler is the only returning starter from last season?s 35-4 NCAA runner-up team, the Buckeyes will begin this season just outside the Top 25 at No. 27. And they were picked third in the Big Ten behind No. 8 Michigan State and No. 9 Indiana by the media who cover the conference.
That result left coach Thad Matta joking that the media must know something he doesn?t.
Maybe it?s not that the media knows more. It?s just that they?ll say more than the OSU coach.
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OSU men's basketball: Exhibitions can prove upsetting

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 3:39 AM
By Bob Baptist



Coach Thad Matta said he has not had to bring up the subject of Grand Valley State. "All the guys seem to know about it," he said.
That's the beauty of the Big Ten Network. No matter who a Big Ten team might play, even an exhibition against an obscure NCAA Division II team, the new network televises it.
P.J. Hill watched Friday night along with his Ohio State teammates, and they saw No. 8 Michigan State, the preseason Big Ten favorite, get upset by Grand Valley State in double overtime.



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ctheado;984882; said:
Anyone get their season tickets yet? 6 days until the first game and mine are no where to be found! Thanks.
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Haven't seen mine yet either. I got my preseason tickets the day before the Ashland game. I had called on monday and they had tickets for Ashland at the will call.
Note, the tickets I got on Tuesday for Ashland were voided.
 
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OSU men's basketball: Exhibitions can prove upsetting

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 3:39 AM
By Bob Baptist



Coach Thad Matta said he has not had to bring up the subject of Grand Valley State. "All the guys seem to know about it," he said.
That's the beauty of the Big Ten Network. No matter who a Big Ten team might play, even an exhibition against an obscure NCAA Division II team, the new network televises it.
P.J. Hill watched Friday night along with his Ohio State teammates, and they saw No. 8 Michigan State, the preseason Big Ten favorite, get upset by Grand Valley State in double overtime.



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And then this happens :(
 
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OSU men's basketball: Matta wants better effort, especially on defense

Thursday, November 8, 2007 3:49 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Two hours after most Ohio State men's basketball games, the only car left in the coaches' parking area at the Schottenstein Center belongs to the staff member who breaks down the videotape of the game.
Two hours after the game Tuesday night, all the coaches' cars were still there. There were a lot of breakdowns to break down.
"Where do we start?" coach Thad Matta said after a 70-68 exhibition loss to Findlay, a Division II program.
"I think defense is going to be probably where we'll start. We didn't guard anybody. It was just dribble penetration and dribble penetration. We ran into screens.

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