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Men's Basketball Buckeye Tidbits 2007-08 Season

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Lantern: NCAA witholds scholarships for men's basketball

NCAA witholds scholarships for men's basketball

By: Ingrid Rivera
3/7/08

The NCAA has imposed a sanction of one lost full-ride scholarship on the Ohio State men's basketball team for failing to meet the Academic Progress Rate standard, said John Bruno, faculty athletics representative. The university is petitioning to overturn the decision.

Bruno said OSU has a two-year time frame to petition the NCAA to keep the scholarship. Bruno did not mention when the reduced scholarship penalty would go into effect.

"We're optimistic that we won't lose that scholarship because we have a strong petition but that decision is in the hands of the NCAA," Bruno said.

Bruno said the sanction was triggered by one athlete who left the university during the 2006-07 school year while academically ineligible. Bruno did not disclose the name. Players Greg Oden, Daequan Cook and Mike Conley Jr. left the team that year when drafted into the NBA. Bruno did not release information about whether these players left academically eligible.

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Final bow for seniors
Terwilliger, Butler part of school-record 99 career victories
Sunday, March 9, 2008 4:51 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

It was the first day of the 2004-05 school year that basketball coaches could work out players, and for Ohio State's new coaches, their first chance to test freshman Jamar Butler.
The first impression was alarming.
"They ran to the phone," Butler recalled.
Assistant coach John Groce called coach Thad Matta, who was away recruiting. "We need a point guard," Groce said.
"I was lost," Butler said yesterday. "I didn't know what was going on, how hard you had to work. I was just going through the drills, being lazy, putting up my shots.
"For it to turn out the way it did, I have to thank God first, then the coaching staff for how they've worked with me."

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Ohio State Buckeyes need to beat Michigan State again to be sure they are in NCAA Tournament



Monday, March 10, 2008 Doug Lesmerises

Plain Dealer Reporter
Oh, those Hawkeyes, Wolverines and Gophers. If Ohio State had won at Iowa, Michigan or Minnesota in the second half of the Big Ten men's basketball season, instead of losing all of those road games to teams in the bottom half of the conference, the Buckeyes would be set.
Instead, to reach the NCAA Tournament, they almost certainly must beat Michigan State for the second time in five days after an angry and disappointed Tom Izzo spends the week explaining how much more angry and disappointed he'll be if the Spartans drop the back end of the doubleheader.
Earlier this year, he kicked his players out of the locker room and made them dress in the hallway after an uninspired loss. Lose to Ohio State again, they may be sleeping in the snow.
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This is a playoff game for the Buckeyes - win and they're in; lose it, they're in the NIT. Unless there's an NCAA case to be made for OSU even in defeat.




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Bob Hunter commentary: Repeat win would bolster Buckeyes' NCAA case

Monday, March 10, 2008 3:10 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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NEAL C. LAURON | DISPATCH


Tenacious defense, like that of Othello Hunter and Kosta Koufos on Michigan State's Goran Suton, helped Ohio State rally.


In or out? That's all anyone wants to know now. In or out? A week ago, Ohio State seemed sure to be out of the NCAA's postseason tournament. It was 0-for-the-season against teams in the top 40 in the Ratings Percentage Index; the Buckeyes wore that 0-for-9 stat like a concrete necklace and the selection committee was poised to toss them off the NCAA bridge.
Then OSU won a big overtime game against No. 15 Purdue (No. 33 in the RPI) on Tuesday and upended No. 17 Michigan State (No. 15 in RPI) yesterday. All of a sudden Michigan State coach Tom Izzo was standing there making an impassioned speech in the postgame interview room about how good the Buckeyes and the Big Ten are, and he made a convincing case.
"I think all along our conference gets mangled, unfortunately, probably by you guys," Izzo said. "This is a good conference. Everybody talks down the Big Ten. I mean, Ohio State, they beat Florida by 15, they have Tennessee almost beat and Butler goes 2 for 10. This is a good basketball team. OK, they lost some games because there's other good basketball teams.



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Men's basketball: OSU Insider

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:58 AM




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Neal C. Lauron | Dispatch
Jamar Butler helped Ohio State close the regular season strong with 25 and 20 points in wins over Purdue and Michigan State.



Coming up: Michigan State in Big Ten tournament quarterfinal
Where: Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
When: 2:30 p.m. Friday
TV: ESPN
Radio: WBNS-AM (1460)
The week that was

Asked Sunday where this team has been all season, Jamar Butler said, "Great question. I don't know." A better answer would have been "growing," and so slowly as to have been painful, one step forward often negated by two steps back. Thirty games into a fitful journey, wins over Purdue (in overtime) on Tuesday and Michigan State on Sunday were Ohio State's first and second after nine consecutive losses to teams in the top 40 of the Rating Percentage Index. They came just in time to keep the Buckeyes from sliding off the NCAA Tournament bubble.

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Interesting read which includes mentioning the salary that the current head coach at Missouri State was receiving. Less than what John Groce is making as an assistant. Possibility of Bruce Weber to there was interesting. I guess if he thinks he is going to get the boot at Illinois he might as well take that position.

Also some interesting tidbits regarding the game against Michigan State and Butler. Well worth the read.
 
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OSU men's basketball: Matta still upbeat amid topsy-turvy season

Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:37 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Ohio State men's basketball team began the season with one starter and three other players returning from the team that played in the 2007 NCAA championship game. Thirty-one games later, the Buckeyes are still a work in progress, and whether they return to the NCAA Tournament may hinge on whether they beat Michigan State on Friday in the Big Ten Tournament. Coach Thad Matta reflected on the journey with Dispatch beat writer Bob Baptist:

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Big Ten commissioner backs Buckeyes

Friday, March 14, 2008 6:37 AM



ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS -- Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said yesterday that he thinks four teams -- Indiana, Michigan State, Purdue and Wisconsin -- have locked up NCAA Tournament bids, and he thinks Ohio State has a strong case to become the fifth Big Ten team in the field. "I think we have four in and I think Ohio State has done enough to get in," Delany said. "I think they've accomplished quite a bit.



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OSU men's basketball: Pounding in practice puts guards in overdrive

Friday, March 14, 2008 3:12 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Most days before the Ohio State men's basketball team practices, the blocking pads come out. Dave Richardson, the team's strength and conditioning coordinator, wields one. So does assistant coach Archie Miller. Richardson still resembles the U.S. Army powerlifter he was 25 years ago. Miller looks like the 160-pound North Carolina State guard he was six years ago. Pads in hand, there's no difference between the two.
"They beat us up a little bit," Buckeyes guard David Lighty said. "But it helps us out for the games because they don't call fouls in the Big Ten."



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