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Ohio State 92, Memphis 76 (Final)

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FINAL FOUR!
Oden-led Buckeyes win 21st straight to earn a trip to Atlanta
Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:39 AM
By Rob Oller


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Neal C. Lauron | DISPATCH David Lighty, left, and Ron Lewis celebrate OSU's 92-76 win over Memphis.

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SAN ANTONIO -- In a city synonymous with hope against all odds, the Ohio State men's basketball team stared down another sticky situation in the Alamodome to defeat Memphis and advance to the NCAA Final Four.
Madness is on the march -- to Atlanta.
"Three years ago, we had a vision for this program. It just became reality," OSU coach Thad Matta said as chants of O-H-I-O filled the arena after the Buckeyes' 92-76 win against Memphis. OSU now heads to Saturday's national semifinals.

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Ohio State 92 Memphis 76
Buckeyes turn tide with boost from Oden

Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:48 AM
By Bob Baptist


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NEAL C. LAURON Dispatch Coach Thad Matta hugs Greg Oden in celebration after Ohio State beat Memphis in the NCAA South Regional final.

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NEAL C. LAURON Dispatch Mike Conley Jr., slipping past Robert Dozier of Memphis, scored 19 points for Ohio State.

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SAN ANTONIO -- Greg Oden has worn the label of game-changer for years.

Never, perhaps, did the 7-footer wear it more conspicuously, or more brilliantly, than yesterday.
"When I grabbed Greg, our eyes met," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. "He kind of nodded at me, and I said, 'Let's go.' "
And off they went to the Final Four.
Five points down to Memphis when their center returned to the floor with three fouls, the Buckeyes surged to a five-point lead in the next six minutes and went on to beat the Tigers 92-76 yesterday in the South Regional final in the Alamodome.
Ron Lewis scored 22 points, Mike Conley Jr. 19 and Oden 17, and the Buckeyes made 35 of 41 free throws to reach the Final Four for the first time since 1999.

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Intentional foul on Oden turns momentum

Sunday, March 25, 2007 6:56 AM
By Bob Baptist


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Neal C. LauronDISPATCH Greg Oden of Ohio State dunks on Memphis in the first half. Oden scored 17 points and blocked one shot for the Buckeyes.



SAN ANTONIO -- An apparent intentional foul that wasn't called on Greg Oden helped Ohio State overcome Xavier's bid for an upset.
An intentional foul of Oden that was called, on Chris Douglas-Roberts of Memphis, helped swing the momentum the Buckeyes' way yesterday in their 92-76 victory in the NCAA South Regional final in the Alamodome.

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Finally, Final Four

Ohio State reaches preseason goal, wants title next

By Marla Ridenour

Beacon Journal sportswriter

SAN ANTONIO - At their first team meeting Sept. 23, Ohio State coach Thad Matta planted the seed.
He handed out a brochure that included a picture from a Final Four pamphlet and told the Buckeyes that was what they were working for.
``It's not, `Here's what we could do or here's what we might do,' '' freshman point guard Mike Conley Jr. said. ``Coach Matta was telling us, `Here's what we're going to do.' ''
On Saturday, Matta proved to be a prophet.

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Dorsey talks, but doesn't roar

Tiger teammates upset by remarks about Oden that fire up Buckeyes

By Marla Ridenour

Beacon Journal sportswriter

SAN ANTONIO - Memphis sophomore guard Chris Douglas-Roberts heard what was in the newspaper Saturday and practically groaned.
His teammate, 6-foot-9 junior forward Joey Dorsey, had done the unthinkable. He had given the Buckeyes and their 7-foot freshman center, Greg Oden, all the motivation they needed for their South Region final at the Alamodome.
Pumped for his matchup with Oden, Dorsey said Friday, ``I'm an underrated big man, and he's a lot overrated as a big man.'' He added that he expected it to be David versus Goliath and called himself Goliath. He predicted that he was going to have a 20-rebound game.
The final score was Ohio State 92, Memphis 76. The other pertinent final score was Oden 17, Dorsey 0.

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AP DAVID J. PHILLIP
SAINT LEWIS Senior Ron Lewis led Ohio State with 22 points in Saturday?s South Regional championship win against Memphis. Lewis also was 10-for-10 at the foul line as the Buckeyes made 35 of 41 overall to keep Memphis from rallying.​


Oden: 'Huge' center dominant
Sunday, March 25, 2007
By JAIME ARON
AP Sports Writer

SAN ANTONIO Ohio State Coach Thad Matta looked down the bench and locked eyes with Greg Oden.

The big man, sitting out with three fouls, nodded.

"Let's go," Matta told him, adding his usual advice in such situations: "Play real hard and don't foul anybody."

Oden followed orders perfectly, dominating like only a 7-footer can over the decisive stretch in the second half to carry the top-seeded Buckeyes past Memphis, 92-76, and into the Final Four.

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Dorsey can't back up his talk
Sunday, March 25, 2007
By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Sports Writer

SAN ANTONIO Joey Dorsey talked a really good game about how he was going to outplay Greg Oden. It was nothing but talk.

Dorsey didn't score as Memphis lost in an NCAA regional final for the second straight year, this time a 92-76 to top-seeded Ohio State and Oden on Saturday.

A day after Dorsey referred to himself as Goliath and the Buckeyes' 7-foot freshman center as "the little man," the 6-9 Memphis' center played only 19 minutes and was called for four fouls. He was held scoreless for the first time this season, not even taking a shot. His only three rebounds came before halftime - two of them in the first six minutes.

"I thought we'd have a little better matchup inside," Coach John Calipari said, without mentioning names. "I thought it would be more competitive."

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Final Four an OSU reality
Matta makes it happen with help of true-believer freshmen
BY DUSTIN DOW | [email protected]


SAN ANTONIO - When the game ended here Saturday, Ohio State coach Thad Matta found his freshman stars, Greg Oden and Mike Conley.
He hugged them and said, "Thank you."
Oden, the 7-foot All-American, and Conley, the point guard who came from the same Indianapolis high school as Oden, are the two most prominent reasons that Matta, 39, will coach in his first Final Four next weekend in Atlanta.

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ODEN, CONLEY JR. BUOY BUCKEYES




By PAUL SCHWARTZ


March 25, 2007 -- SAN ANTONIO - One by one, his teammates took turns cutting little pieces of the net to take home as a keepsake, but Greg Oden purposefully took a different tact when he was handed the scissors moments after helping Ohio State to an historic victory.
"Everybody else wants to go at the top. I like the bigness, the thick part, that looks like a real net," Oden said. "I don't like the little string. I'm used to cutting down nets from my high school days, so I actually know how to do it. Those guys don't." Those guys are learning, thanks to Oden and his former high school teammate back in Indianapolis, fellow freshman Mike Conley Jr. That dynamic duo changed the culture down in Columbus, and the results burst through again last night as the Buckeyes finally ditched the late-game theatrics with a solid 92-76 victory over Memphis in the NCAA South Regional final at the Alamodome.

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Stepping to the Four

OSU in Final Four as Oden, Buckeyes rise to the occasion
Sunday, March 25, 2007 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
San Antonio -- Greg Oden's first and perhaps only NCAA Tournament had been defined by foul trouble and his Ohio State teammates pulling out consecutive comeback wins without him. Saturday in the South Regional final against Memphis, the 7-foot freshman found himself sidelined by foul trouble again.
This time, the Buckeyes needed him. Oden rose from the bench and led Ohio State into the Final Four.
"I grabbed Greg, and our eyes kind of met, and he kind of nodded at me," Ohio State men's basketball coach Thad Matta said. "I said, Let's go, but don't foul anybody.' "

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Four things I think about ...

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Sunday, March 25, 2007


1. Zoe Oden was the biggest winner of the day, even though she wasn't in San Antonio. The mother of Greg Oden was in Columbus watching her younger son, Anthony, win a state basketball title with Dayton Dunbar. Greg Oden discovered the result just before game time when teammate Daequan Cook, a Dunbar grad, came into the locker room yelling about the win. "I was thinking about that after our game," Greg Oden said. "My mom saw my brother win, so now she has two sons that won today."

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OHIO STATE INSIDER
Xavier fans cry foul about called intentional


Sunday, March 25, 2007 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
San Antonio -- The irony was thick, and after Ohio State's 92-76 men's basketball win over Memphis on Saturday, it didn't take long for Xavier fans on the Internet to start complaining.
Ohio State survived to beat the Musketeers in overtime a week earlier and advance to the Sweet 16 in part because Greg Oden was not called for an intentional foul on his shove of Justin Cage with 9.3 seconds to play. That call certainly could have been made.
Saturday, the turning point in the Buckeyes' victory to send them to the Final Four was an intentional foul that was called when Memphis' Chris Robert-Douglas hugged Oden in the lane in an attempt to prevent a wide-open basket off a scramble for the ball.

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