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Men's Basketball Tidbits 2008-'09 Season

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An update to the recent scheduling update:

The 2009 Big Ten season will start in 2008. Because the conference needs a 10-week regular season for each team to play 18 league games and have two byes, the college basketball calendar this season will require the conference season to start the last week in December, according to associate commissioner Mark Rudner.

It will be the first time in 10 years the men?s schedule has started before the new year. In 1998-99, Ohio State and Penn State played in November because of a winter scheduling conflict in Value City Arena, Wisconsin and Michigan played Dec.30 and Indiana and Iowa met Dec.31.
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Recruiting, scheduling and an alumni update (Hoops & Scoops: an OSU basketball blog)
 
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LitlBuck;1225258; said:
They have scheduled a home game with Iona for December 20.

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We'll get a good bump out our OOC SOS for our RPI and seeding considerations next year. Miami, Domers, West Virginia should all be top 25 caliber teams next season. I like that instead of the Florida A&M, Coppin State, Presbtyrian 250+ RPI teams we're playing non-BCS conference favorites like UNC Asheville which will be the Big South favorite going into next season.

Jacksonville finished second in the ASun last year and brings most of it's starters back. Cliff Warren @ JU will end up coaching in a BCS league someday. When he left Georgia Tech as an assistant he took over one of the worst programs in DI. He was 1-26 his first year and had them competing for a league title in year 3.

Butler loses four starters but still should be a top 150 RPI team.

Iona should be improved with them adding a Louisville and Seton Hall transfer becoming eligble this year.

BG and Samford will probably struggle but by virtue of the leagues they play in have a better RPI than a MEAC/SWAC/Big South team.
 
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August 26, 2008
Another case for semesters

I clicked on a link this morning to read about former Ohio State great Jerry Lucas popping in on the Tennessee men?s basketball team Monday to give the Vols one of his patented pep talks.

Early in the story, something of greater significance struck me.

Tennessee already is practicing, with coaches in the gym, because its fall semester began last week.

Ohio State can not do the same until Sept.15 because its fall quarter does not begin until Sept.24.

The NCAA rulebook states that ?individual skill-related instruction? in basketball can begin on ?the institution?s first day of classes of the academic year or Sept. 15, whichever occurs earlier.?

Until Sept.15, no more than four players can be in the gym with coaches at one time. But that?s irrelevant. The point is, players at semester schools will receive three more weeks of coaching, even if it's only skill instruction, than players at quarter schools before full-scale practice for all schools begins Oct.17.

Much has been made the past two springs about quarter schools being at a disadvantage in the Academic Progress Rate when players leave early to pursue professional careers. Ohio State probably will escape a loss-of-scholarship penalty in the case of Greg Oden, but probably not in the case of Kosta Koufos.

NCAA president Myles Brand said last spring that he was ?not sure it was correct to say quarter schools are disadvantaged? by the APR. I wonder what Brand would say about the levelness of a playing field on which some teams have three-week head starts on others.

It?s one more reason that, at least as far as basketball is concerned, Ohio State would be better served by switching to a semester schedule in the next few years.

Posted by Bob Baptist on August 26, 2008 10:44 AM
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I really have a hard time understanding the above just because some universities are on semesters and some are on quarters. If the players and coaches are on campus, I just don't understand why all universities, if they want, start practices on the same date. I think this is really a unfair rule to those universities on the quarter system. They get much less supervised practice time then do the universities on semesters.

I also believe that there should be some type of adjustment made for universities on a quarter system when they calculate the APR. Perhaps, they could set a certain date for players on the quarter system to declare for the NBA or not. If a date was set and the player dropped out of school before that date, it really would make things more equitable IMO
 
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August 27, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day

Ohio State and Michigan State had a memorable shootout in Value City Arena two years ago when ESPN College GameDay and its celebrity-heavy road crew put a Big Ten game in its prime-time Saturday night lineup for the first time in the show?s three years.
The Buckeyes ran up a 20-point halftime lead, Drew Neitzel almost singlehandedly erased all but a point of it in the second half, and Ohio State survived for a 66-64 victory only after the Spartans missed three go-ahead shots in the final 69 seconds.
The Buckeyes will get a chance for a second victory this season. It won?t be any easier.


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No tournament to tip off season

A season-opening tournament in Value City Arena that would have given Ohio State three games in three days could not be arranged with an event promoter, a university source said today.
That left the Buckeyes scrambling to find two more non-conference opponents and is the reason _ or one of them _ that the Big Ten has yet to release its men?s basketball schedule for the 2008-09 season.
The OSU schedule could be out next week. ?Maybe,? an athletics department spokesman wrote in an e-mail.
Ohio State was discussing a tournament with a promoter whose past events have included early-season events benefiting the John Thompson Foundation.


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Well, that really sucks. I guess they won't be using that promoter again. Hopefully, Winthrop will still be able to play them since they were the first round opponent for Ohio State anyway. Maybe one of the other two teams who were supposed to be in the tournament will fill the schedule.
 
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September 2, 2008

Schedule out Wednesday

The Ohio State men?s basketball schedule will be released Wednesday, a team spokesman said today in an e-mail.
Coach Thad Matta has been scrambling to fill two openings after his plan of hosting a season-opening tournament in Value City Arena did not come together. The Buckeyes can open the season as early as Nov.14 but as yet do not have a game scheduled earlier than Nov.24.
Here, hopefully for the last time, is the schedule as we know it so far:
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Big 10 schedule for 2008-2009. Preseason will be released when finalized.

Dec. 31, Iowa, 4 p.m., BTN
Jan. 3, at Minnesota, noon, BTN
Jan. 6, at Michigan State, 7 p.m., ESPN2
Jan. 13, Indiana, 7 p.m., ESPN
Jan. 17, at Michigan, 8 p.m., BTN
Jan. 20, at Illinois, 7 p.m., ESPN
Jan. 25, Michigan State, 3:45 p.m., CBS
Jan. 28, Michigan, 6:30 p.m., BTN
Jan. 31, at Indiana, 4 p.m., ESPN 2
Feb. 3, Purdue, 7 p.m., ESPN
Feb. 7, Minnesota, 8 p.m., BTN
Feb. 14, at Wisconsin, 9 p.m., ESPN
Feb. 18, at Northwestern, 9 p.m., BTN
Feb. 21 or 22, Illinois, TBA, BTN/ESPN
Feb. 24, Penn State, 7 p.m., ESPN
Feb. 28 or March 1, at Purdue, TBA, TBA
March 3, 4 or 5, at Iowa, TBA, TBA
March 8, Northwestern, 4 p.m., BTN
March 12-15, Big Ten Tournament
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Don't like playing two of our first four games away from home especially against Minnesota and Michigan State. Those will be two of the tougher teams in the Big 10 along with Purdue and we will need some time for the young guys to grow up.
 
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OSU-Notre Dame to tip about 4 p.m. on Dec.6

The first announcement I?ve seen on the Hartford Hall of Fame Showcase hit my inbox during the weekend. The double-header in Indianapolis? new Lucas Oil Stadium will have Indiana playing Gonzaga at 1:30 p.m. and Ohio State and Notre Dame scheduled for 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec.6.
Tickets, priced at $15 in upper sections to as much as $250 for courtside seats, are available beginning Monday at the stadium box office, at Ticketmaster locations, on Ticketmaster.com or by calling 317-239-5151. Each participating school will be given an allotment of tickets for its fans.
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Updated Nonconference Schedule

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Posted by Bob Baptist on September 10, 2008 9:34 PM |
Houston Baptist is one of two opponents Ohio State was forced to find at the 11th hour after the season-opening tournament Matta wanted to host in Value City Arena fell through. This is what you get when you schedule at the 11th hour: a team playing its second year in NCAA Division I.
And that?s only the half of it. The other opponent Ohio State had to come up with at the last minute could be a tired bunch playing its third road game in four nights. The Buckeyes are awaiting a signed contract from Delaware State, which will play at Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pa., on Nov. 17, at Dayton on Nov. 19 and at Ohio State likely on Nov. 20. The Hornets also are at Kentucky on Nov. 22.

The good news: the teams came to terms so late that the date they agreed to play already is booked in Value City Arena with a Reba McEntire/Kelly Clarkson concert. So St. John Arena will play host to the game and the smaller crowd the opponent will attract won?t seem so lost in the cozier, noisier confines.

Once Ohio State receives the contract from Delaware State, the complete schedule finally will be announced, probably next week. For now, though, here?s the updated non-conference portion to go along with the Big Ten slate announced last week:
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Date ........... Opponent
Nov. 20 ........ Delaware State
Nov. 24 ........ Bowling Green
Nov. 29 ........ Samford
Dec. 2 ......... at Miami, Fla. 7 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 6 ......... vs. Notre Dame in Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis
Dec. 13 ........ Butler
Dec. 17 ....... Jacksonville
Dec.20 ........ Iona
Dec. 22 ....... North Carolina Asheville
Dec. 27 ....... West Virginia
Jan. 9 .......... Houston Baptist
 
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