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Ohio State vs Michigan State, Mar 10, 2023, 2:30 PM EST, BTN

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ScriptOhio said:


BRUCE THORNTON​

GRADE: A++++
Thornton was the best player on the floor. Ohio State's late-season surge coincides with Thornton playing the best basketball of his career. The freshman point guard showed out against a Michigan State backcourt that is regarded as the best in the Big Ten. Thornton totaled 21 points, six assists, four rebounds and zero turnovers in 35 minutes. Oh, and he had two blocks, one steal and numerous deflections. Thornton was a maestro in the pick-and-roll. Michigan State tried blitzing, switching, dropping or even playing at the level against Thornton.
It didn't matter.
Thornton is playing with oodles of confidence, and he has the look of potentially being in the mix for the Big Ten's best guard in 2023-24.
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That's all well and good, but did he also sell popcorn at halftime? That would have been a really great game.
 
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Michigan State's Tom Izzo chides Chris Holtmann doubters after Big Ten Tournament loss to Ohio State​


"I've always pulled for coaches and disappointed in how we played, but it just goes to show how college basketball is so very difficult to coach," Izzo said. "I give (Ohio State's) Chris (Holtmann) a lot of credit. Everybody thinks like he's my uncle or my cousin or my brother. He's not. He's just a human being that went through some tough times with some injuries, and people make stupid statements like he hasn't been to the second round in four years. Well, one year nobody went. So don't make it look bad for him. It figures the guy wouldn't show up for this, and I think he's a good guy personally. If he hasn't done a good job, I deserve to be fired because I didn't do a very good job at all."

ON OHIO STATE INTENTIONALLY BUILDING AROUND YOUNG GUYS:​

"Like I said, I give him a lot of credit because I know what it's like in Columbus. It's not as bad there in basketball as it is in football, but I know what it's like. As a coach, like we kept saying on the bench, poor Malik, he just didn't look like he was moving very good, you know, and they had some injuries early. Then they had freshmen. And then they had to deal with freshmen on one side, the transfers in the middle, the seniors on the other side.
"There's so many obstacles we all have to go through now, and we have to figure them out. I don't need anybody feeling sorry for anybody, but they're not easy. I think the greatest job he did was not this tournament, the greatest job he did was saving them for the last five games of the regular season, even when they lost. Other than the Purdue loss, they were playing better for those five games.
"I don't know about playing them a lot of minutes. That's okay, but eventually, you've got to have some subs. But they're on a high. They're playing with energy and emotion, and that can get you through fatigue, I guess is what I'm saying."
 
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