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Buckeyes slam Northwestern in basketball

Butler fails to score, but contributes other ways in Ohio State's 62-51 victory.


Associated Press

Monday, January 07, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Jamar Butler did not contribute in the points column but the senior guard was still a force in Ohio State's 62-51 win over Northwestern on Sunday afternoon.
Butler followed a career-best 32 points in Thursday's win at Illinois by missing all seven field goals for no points, but he had a game-high 11 assists ? including a pair of spectacular alley-oops ? and a career-high 10 rebounds.


"He showed he can hurt you in a lot of different ways," Northwestern coach Bill Carmody said. "He was content to run the team. It was an impressive performance."



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Koufos leads Buckeyes
Monday, January 7, 2008
BY Mike Popovich
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS They let their guard down a little on a day when a sizable victory was within reach.

At least the Ohio State Buckeyes didn?t pay the price for it.

The Buckeyes finished strong after things got a little hairy and beat Northwestern, 62-51, Sunday at Value City Arena. The win was Ohio State?s seventh straight and the team?s 28th in a row at home against the Wildcats since 1977.

Ohio State survived 20 turnovers, most of them unforced, against Northwestern?s 1-3-1 zone. A 15-point lead quickly shrank to 4 in the second half.

A couple of Othello Hunter dunks off alley-oop passes from Jamar Butler, a Kosta Koufos slam and a Jon Diebler 3-pointer down the stretch stemmed the tide.

?Fortunately we made some big shots down the stretch,? Buckeyes Head Coach Thad Matta said. ?We had a chance there in the first half with a pretty big lead ... and we got a little bit careless.

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Do we want to see Butler go scoreless? No. Is it a beautiful thing to see the young guys step it up in his absence on the scoring end. Heck yes. I love the fact that he can get a double double without scoring and we can still win a Big10 game. Thats 18 in a row btw over Big10 opponents which I think is pretty darn special. We all know that this team has yet to play their best basketball but there are glimpses of greatness that come out and we just might make some noise come tourney time. The TO's will come down with experience, I hope, but they are looking for each other and the highlights on the BTN showed some excellent teamwork which will only improve with time.
 
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Dispatch

MEN'S BASKETBALL
Oddities mark OSU victory
Butler doesn't score, but gets double-double against Northwestern
Monday, January 7, 2008 12:01 AM
By Bob Baptist


The Columbus Dispatch
Most games involving the Northwestern men's basketball team are a little weird.​
The Wildcats put a church-league-looking lineup on the floor, take the air out of the ball with their Princeton-style offense, switch zone defenses and scrap for whatever crumbs they can grab. The more talented opponent frequently gets sucked into the quicksand.​
So it was for a maturing Ohio State team yesterday in winning a 62-51 struggle in Value City Arena. Weird.​
Less than 72 hours after scoring a career-high 32 points at Illinois on Thursday, Jamar Butler added a double-double ? without scoring a point. In his stead, freshmen Kosta Koufos, Evan Turner and Jon Diebler combined for 48 points.​
The Buckeyes, who came into the game having only 18 more rebounds than their opponents this season, finished with 23 more than the Wildcats. But they squandered much of that edge with 20 turnovers.

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What I got out of the game was a sense that the freshmen are learning.
What this means is that we aren't just a one or two man team in so far as scoring. They are learning to score with whoever is available and when it is perfected, as much as it can, we will be a fearsome team.
 
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[quote='BusNative;105198;9]I know alot of guys that played for Coach Carmody (NW HC) - none of them like him. I love it when he loses.[/quote]
Do they dislike Carmody because of the way he treats them or because of his style of play? I review don't think Northwestern could play in the other way with the athletes that they have.
 
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