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I would think if we can do that and win two games in the Big 10 tournament we would be a lock for the dance.I'd say the Bucks are a bubble team on the outside looking in at this point because of the lack of a signature win. The next two games (@NW, @UM) are MUST wins and then they need to win at least 3 of the next 5 (Wisc, @IU, @Minn, Purdue, MSU). If they accomplish that they'll be 21-10 and will have at least 2 quality wins for their resume. If that doesn't happen it will depend on how well they play in the Big10 tournament.
Cosign... here's the remaining schedule:LitlBuck;1089334; said:We play Wisconsin Sunday, February 24... that's all.
Kelvin Ransey....my first "favorite" Buckeye bballer. Happy for Jamar and all records are made to be broken, but I always liked Kelvin.osugrad21;1090772; said:Canton
MILESTONES AHEAD Senior point guard Jamar Butler needs just six assists to break Kelvin Ransey's Ohio State career record of 516 set from 1977-80. Butler averages 6.3 assists a game. ... Butler and forward Matt Terwilliger will tie the school's senior class wins record if the Buckeyes beat Northwestern tonight. Current holders Richard Reasbeck and Douglas McDonald won 98 games from 1960-63 during an era when freshmen were not eligible. Ohio State now recognizes four-year players in its program. Forward Othello Hunter, the other senior on the team, began his career in junior college. ... Matta is just one win away from the 200th of his career and three shy of his 100th at Ohio State.
February 13, 2008
How much does it hurt?
Coach Thad Matta has occasionally, in his four years at Ohio State, questioned whether the modern college basketball player is bothered by losing as much as players were back in the day.
Players nowadays are products of a different culture in which there is always a game or three the next day. When the high-school season ends, the AAU season begins. There are tournaments or camps seemingly every week of the spring and summer in which teams, win or lose, play a guaranteed number of games.
Matta did something Monday to make the loss to Indiana on Sunday bother his players. He didn?t let them practice to get past it. He made them watch the video of the game and then sent them on their way.
?I think it kind of caught everybody by surprise,? guard Jon Diebler said. ?I think a lot of people were looking forward to practice. But he said after films, `I want you to keep this bitter taste in your mouths.? He said, `Don?t like to lose. You need to refuse to lose.??
Matta said before the Buckeyes left for Northwestern yesterday that he was anxious to see how they play tonight. They need ?good wins? to enhance their NCAA Tournament resume, but they also need to avoid any more ?bad losses? like the one at Iowa a week and a half ago.
?He said we . . . should be anxious and ready to go when we play (tonight),? Diebler said. ?I think our guys are looking at it like that.
?We lost on our home floor, and that really hasn?t happened much in coach Matta?s career here (Matta?s record in Value City Arena is 59-5). We?re trying to win a Big Ten title, and now we have to win every game we can. One of the things in winning the Big Ten is you have to win all your home games, and we obviously slipped up Sunday.?
Buckeyes aren't only Big Ten team in zone
Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:35 AM
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
For 30 years, a cornerstone of the Big Ten's reputation as college basketball's roughest, toughest conference was its teams' man-to-man defense.
Bob Knight set the iron bar at Indiana, and his rivals tried to reach it. Blood, black and blue ensued.
"We all think sometimes that we're not macho if we're not playing in-your-face, man-to-man defense," Michigan coach John Beilein said.
And yet, he added, "You probably should study the history of the game and how guys like John Chaney and Jim Boeheim get to 700 wins playing zones."
Eight years after Knight's eviction, the Big Ten landscape has changed. Every school except Michigan State has replaced coaches, some twice. New attitudes and ideas have been introduced. And this season, a zone defense has proved to be, statistically at least, the most effective in the conference.
"They're very good at what they do," Beilein said of Ohio State's matchup zone, which Michigan will try to solve today for a second time in 12 days.
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