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Ohio State 62, Florida 49 (Final)

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Ohio State is Gator bait no more after topping Florida
Sunday, December 23, 2007
BY Mike Popovich
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS Ohio State?s clear-cut nemesis in 2007 was finally taken down Saturday. And the fans who packed Value City Arena didn?t seem to mind that there was no title on the line.

The Buckeyes beat Florida, 62-49, to avenge their loss to the Gators in last year?s national championship game. But it doesn?t stop at basketball with these schools. Almost a year has passed since Florida?s football team blew out Ohio State in the BCS national title game.

Kosta Koufos scored a game-high 17 points, Jamar Butler finished with 13, and David Lighty added 11 to lead the Buckeyes (8-3) to their fourth straight win. The Gators lost for just the second time in 13 games.

The players on the court for both teams hardly resembled those who were involved in the championship game. Five were selected in the top 10 of last summer?s NBA draft.

Butler, the only returning starter from the final, and Lighty both downplayed the revenge factor for Ohio State.


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Good game by the Bucks, interesting year ahead. Loved the defensive intensity, reminded me of the Illini of the 80's with Gill, Liberty, we had a bunch of 6'5-6'6 athletes on the floor making things rough on Florida's backcourt.

I think TAMU is the second best team we've faced this year, and I think they'd give UNC a heck of a game. Butler is a very experienced team with some great shooters, but we had them beat until we became the team that couldn't shoot straight. Unless Butler shoots real well, I saw little inside from them, a lot of teams could beat them, not necessarily true of TAMU.
 
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We made the Big time on the sporting news guys, even if it was only on the second page . :(

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State is no longer Gator bait. It's a long way from making up for all the grief that Florida has dished out to Ohio State over the last year, but the Buckeyes got a tiny measure of revenge Saturday with a 62-49 victory over the Gators.
It was a rematch of the schools in last year's national championship games in basketball and football, matchups the Gators won handily.
 
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Ohio State 62 | Florida 49
In the right zone
Ohio State's defense puts lid on Florida's shooters, forges fourth win in row
Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:31 AM
By Bob Baptist


The Columbus Dispatch
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Ohio State's Jamar Butler drives for two of his 13 points over Florida's Dan Werner in the second half.

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Kosta Koufos, center, celebrates from the bench after Ohio State pulls ahead of Florida. Koufos led Ohio State with 17 points and 10 rebounds.



Just in case his mad genius went up in smoke as Florida's perimeter shooters blew holes in his defense, Thad Matta said he was prepared.
"We had a backup plan called 'special,' " the coach of the Ohio State men's basketball team said.
Once again, though, the zone that Matta can't bring himself to embrace -- publicly, at least -- was special enough.
For the ninth time in 11 games, the Buckeyes held an opponent below 40 percent shooting from the field yesterday. Florida came into Value City Arena shooting 52 percent for the season, shot 33 against Ohio State and scored 33 points less than its average in a 62-49 loss to the Buckeyes, who headed home happily for a three-day Christmas break.
"To hold them to 49 points, I think we did great on the defensive end," guard Jamar Butler said.

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Bob Hunter commentary: Finally beating Florida helps, but it's still no national title

Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:28 AM
By Bob Hunter


The Columbus Dispatch
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There was a blood lust yesterday in Value City Arena and it probably didn't have anything to do with the Florida basketball team that stopped by to do a little dribbling.
Just guessing here, but those booing, Gator-chomping Buckeyes fans probably don't really hate Marreese Speights. The sight of Walter Hodge probably doesn't make them cringe. They might not even know who Nick Calathes is.
A lot of people around here have been having blue and orange nightmares since Florida beat Ohio State in football's national championship game in January. Then there was another win by Florida over the Buckeyes in the basketball title game in April that rubbed salt in the wounds. And, oh yeah, the Gators also beat those baby basketball Buckeyes last December.
No, there is no mistaking what this was about yesterday: If Santa Claus had shown up in Columbus in a blue-and-orange gift-delivery suit, he might just be ho-ho-hoing through a split lip on Christmas Eve.

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