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NW'ern 47, tOSU 52 (Final)

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MuckFich06;1424571; said:
I'm out of rep due to hitting everyone I could in the spring drive thread, but mad love to everyone here. 20 Ws, it was looking very tough in January, but they did it. We'll be dancing in the NCAAs. Congrats boys, you earned it.

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Should be good for the NCAAs but with such a clusterfuck in conference another win wouldn't hurt us. Besides, we owe the Badgers an ass whuppin next Friday.
 
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Just got home from enemy territory (Lake Orion, MI) and couldn't get an update all day. I was attending a dance competition with my daughter and the only score I got up there was how wonderful Michigan State is. I tried to find an unsercured wireless network as I drove through the neighborhood next to Lake Orion HS, I found one but it was a very weak signal for my laptop. I need XM radio or broadband modem for the cell phone..

I'm glad to hear the boys survived the cats. :oh:
 
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Man our lack of beating that 1-3-1 is what let NW hang around...We came out and kicking their ass, then they went to that zone and we became so stagnant...No penetration, no flashing, and only jacking up 3's that werent falling...

Finally they found Mullens as he was pinning his guy all game...

Hope DLaud is ok...He played int he second half, but didn't raise his left arm the entire time...

Mullens was so dead down the stretch he could barely get up and down the court...

Could go into more detail, but right now I am just happy that we got to 20 wins, especially after all we had to go thru this season, wit the injuries, transfers, and a very young team...
 
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Hard fought win. What made that 1-3-1 zone so unbelieveably tough to generate offense was that the refs lost their whistles in the 2nd half of the game. For not one but BOTH of those teams to only have 4 fouls apiece in the first 18 of those 20 minutes is unbelieveable. No doubt though, we're gonna be working on how to break that kind of D in time for our next game on Thursday, as I'm sure there were teams watching us struggle against it. I have a feeling we're gonna see it again at some point this coming week.

Our guards this season have been nothing short of clutch this season. Turner, Diebs, and Buford seem to do it almost every night, but even Hill's D and Simmons' 3 point shooting have changed our fortunes in some games this season.

Magnificent coaching job this year by Thad Matta. To get 20 wins with this group of guys without a single senior, without David Lighty (their leader, best defender, & heart and soul of the team) as of mid December, and in one of the deepest conferences in the nation... my hat's off to him. He's one hell of a coach and I'm proud to have him teaching X's and O's for us.
 
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CPD

20 is Buckeyes' magic number as Ohio State defeats Northwestern 52-47

by Doug Lesmerises / Plain Dealer Reporter Sunday March 08, 2009, 11:20 PM


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(AP Photo/Terry Gilliam)Ohio State's B.J. Mullens (32) knocks a rebound away from Northwestern's Kyle Rowley (54) during the Buckeyes' 52-47 victory over the Wildcats.
Columbus -- The day after David Lighty broke his foot in December, Thad Matta gathered his coaches and wrote the number 20 on a board. "Fellas," Matta told them, "we've got to find a way to get 20 wins in the regular season with this team."
Sunday evening, after surviving the transfer and season-ending injuries to two other contributors; after stumbling through a 1-4 stretch to end February; after snatching a victory at Iowa on Tuesday when the Hawkeyes' potential game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer rimmed out; after blowing a 12-point second-half lead against Northwestern with a scoreless run of more than seven minutes; after surrendering the lead again on a four-point play with fewer than four minutes to play; after throwing an inbounds pass off their best player's foot with 10 seconds left to give the Wildcats a final chance to tie it up . . .
The Buckeyes reached 20. And the magic number almost certainly locked up an NCAA Tournament bid.
Ohio State's 52-47 win over Northwestern in the final game of the regular season pushed the Buckeyes to 20-9 and left them 10-8 in the Big Ten, in a three-way tie for fourth place with Wisconsin and Penn State. The tiebreakers gave the Buckeyes the No. 5 seed and a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament. They'll open the tournament with a quarterfinal against No. 4 Wisconsin on Friday at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN.
Considering that a loss to the Wildcats would have dropped Ohio State into the No. 8 or No. 9 seed and squarely onto the NCAA Tournament bubble, this was a happy batch of senior-less Buckeyes that celebrated Senior Day.
They knew what was at stake. Sophomore Evan Turner said he was in his room Saturday night tracking the seeding possibilities.
"Coach didn't have to tell us," sophomore Jon Diebler said. "We could figure it out on our own."

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leroyjenkins;1424717; said:
Who transfered?? :p
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I have not read the entire thread as of yet but remember that guy Crater:huh: you were having a bad day yesterday. First, forgetting the spread and now forgetting a transfer:blush:

Really, you have to give Northwestern props. They do not have many athletes but they sure can play the game and shoot the ball. We finally extended our defense late in the game to shut down their outside shots. When Turner goes one-on-one, he is almost unstoppable going down the lane. It was strange that he did not start doing that earlier in the game but I guess everyone needs some rest.

Just a nice victory and now it's bring on Bucky Beaver.
 
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