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Ohio State 74, Illinois 58 (final)

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This will be a tough first game Big 10 game for our young team having to play at Assembly Hall. Not a very easy place to play at. Illinois has some big boys in the frontcourt and it will be imperative for us to rebound and someone will have to step up on defense and stop Pruitt... he is a big boy!
 
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Interesting....

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Tennessee overwhelms Illinois for home up...
Published on Monday, Dec 31, 2007
Tennessee overwhelms
Illinois for home upset
Big Ten
Tennessee St. 60, Illinois 58 ? Bruce Price scored 17 points to lead Tennessee State to an upset road win against Illinois on Sunday.
Jerrell Houston added 12 points for Tennessee State (4-7).
The Tigers led 29-24 at halftime behind 40 percent shooting from the field and five 3-pointers. Tennessee State ended the game 8-for-19 from 3-point range.
The Tigers' second-half advantage increased to 47-33 before Illinois (8-5) rallied to cut the lead to 48-45.
Trent Meacham hit five 3-pointers, including one with 1:04 to play that brought the score to 59-58. But the Tigers held off the Illini.
Meacham led Illinois with a game-high 24 points. Demetri McCamey added nine points.
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Stats below are through 12/30:

RPI (From Pomeroy)
Ohio State: 22 (up from 25 vs. UMBC)
Illinois: 114

Pomeroy (Strength/Power Rankings)
Ohio State: 42 (same vs. UMBC)
Illinois: 38

Pomeroy projects Illinois to win this game 57-53 and gives Illinois a 69% chance of winning.
 
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LitlBuck;1043884; said:
Interesting indeed but the Tigers jut almost 50% from three-point range. I don't know if this is a good indicator or not.
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All in all I'd take it just like our last game, a mix of a miracle 3pt % game and of poor defense. It just seems that Illinois has a worse track record of the poor D so far this year than we do.

I don't know much about Illinois but looking at their schedule and results so far this year I don't know how much of a suprise this was. They are 8-5 for a reason and that seems to be they don't exactly play lights out D.

Still they are big and tough underneath (a problem for us) and it is at Illinois. Two big reasons to be happy with any kind of W we can come away with.
 
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MaxBuck;1044014; said:
That's gonna leave a mark. On Selection Sunday, that is.
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You could be right but they lost at Duke, at Maryland, and to Arizona at home. Those are three pretty good teams right there but the loss to Miami and now this one to Tennessee State might hurt them at the end. I don't know I think the Buckeyes will have their hands full. They have some pretty big boys in the frontcourt and overall they are pretty athletic.
 
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