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PF Evan Ravenel (Fukushima - Japan)

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I look for Matta to start posting up Ravenel more and running more pick and rolls/pick and pops through him. Ravenel is probably not going to be the #2 scorer they're looking for, but he's certainly capable of scoring 8 to 12 points per game on a consistent basis. I'd take any "additional" offense at this point. I like this team, but there's no feel on the offensive end yet. I think running a few more sets through Ravenel would open things up a bit.

Matta has forgotten more basketball than I'll ever know, so I trust that he'll figure things out and have the Bucks playing their best ball come March.

ETA: Congratulations on earning your diploma Mr. Ravenel.
 
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Less than three years ago, Evan Ravenel was sufficiently disgusted with the business of college basketball that he felt like taking himself out of the game.

He had just finished his sophomore season at Boston College. Coach Al Skinner had told him that he envisioned Ravenel in a starting role as a junior.

?I had finished the season off real well, everything was going good,? Ravenel said, ?and out of nowhere . . . ?
In late March 2010, news broke that Skinner would interview for the vacant coaching position at St. John?s. A few days later, Boston College announced Skinner had been fired a week earlier but had kept it quiet while he interviewed for other jobs.

?First, I was upset at him,? Ravenel said. ?Then I was upset at the school. I just didn?t want to deal with anything anymore.

?I didn?t like how ugly the situation was, and I felt if they would get rid of somebody like Coach Skinner, a guy who was the winningest coach in the program, then they definitely didn?t care about me. That was my mentality. I just didn?t want to deal with it. I said I?d just go home to my safety net.?

Fast-forward to the present.

Ravenel is a fifth-year senior at Ohio State. Last spring, he played in the Final Four. This season, he is the starting center for the seventh-ranked team in the nation. And not only is he back in the game, he is planning to make a living in the very business that made him mad enough to want to quit it.

?I want to coach college basketball,? he said.
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When coach Thad Matta spoke with Evan Ravenel recently about needing Ravenel to play with more energy, ?He looked at me like I was nuts,? Matta said.

Ravenel, the only senior on the Ohio State men?s basketball team and its starting center the first 11 games of the season, thought he was giving all he had.

?But he said, ?No, I want more,? ? Ravenel said. ?So I said, ?OK, I?ll do what I can.? ?

Ravenel was one of the driving forces behind the Buckeyes? bounce-back last week from a 19-point loss at Illinois on Jan. 5. He had 11 points, four rebounds and three blocked shots in a win at Purdue, and six points, three rebounds, a blocked shot and a steal as they handed then-No. 2 Michigan its first loss on Sunday in Value City Arena.

Matta said Ravenel looks like a different player coming off the bench than he was as a starter. Matta replaced Ravenel in the lineup with 6-foot-11 sophomore Amir Williams, who is three inches taller, for the Buckeyes? final nonconference game Dec. 29.

?When he was starting, I thought he had done some good things, (but) maybe not (with) the consistency we needed,? Matta said. ?But I think he?s really, really played well the last few weeks.?

When he made the change, Matta said Williams had practiced better than Ravenel. But Matta said this week that he also was looking for more production from the bench. He always has said he wants his top substitutes to have an immediate impact on the game when they enter.
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/01/17/ravenel-excels-coming-off-bench.html
 
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The Northwestern tirade revisited

Maybe you saw Ohio State coach Thad Matta go ballistic on Evan Ravenel when Matta pulled him from the game at Northwestern last night. I didn't. Press row in Welsh-Ryan Arena is far from the team benches, my eyes usually are in my notebook or laptop during stoppages in play, and after the play involving Ravenel ended, I didn't see what happened next.

ESPN didn't miss Matta's eruption, though, and apparently it was so egregious that it got some of the network's nattering nabobs all lathered up this morning. So unless you DVR'd the game, as I did, you'll have to sit through this (you can mute it) to see the few seconds of good video near the end.

Matta was asked about the incident after the game, and after trying to sidestep it with a joke -- "I wanted to get his pizza ordered for the (flight) back" -- gave a forthright answer.

"He, I felt, had kind of lost his composure and he was arguing with an official," Matta said. "I?m watching him walk down the floor, and I was trying to get his attention, and he was somewhere else, so I tried to snap him back into it."

Boy, did he.

With Ohio State trying to maintain the upper hand in the game, having had a nine-point lead cut to four, Ravenel had a point-blank scoring chance roll around the rim and out, at least the third such miss by the Buckeyes to that point in the game. He obviously felt he had been fouled on the shot, and maybe fouled again from behind when he rebounded the ball, lost control of it and had it bounce on the baseline. Official Mike Kitts whistled the play dead and signaled possession to Northwestern.

Ravenel, who has a habit of complaining to officials about calls that don't go his way, angrily slammed the ball down on the baseline, said something and gave Kitts a hard glance over his shoulder as he began walking the other way. This was when Matta tried to get his attention, to no avail.
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If I have to fight two people I want Evan to be my partner. But he has to work on his composure because he's put the spotlight on himself now, and won't likely get the benefit of the doubt going forward.

I have no doubt Thad will continue to counsel him on this behavior. Meanwhile, Evan just needs to keep playing the way he's been playing lately.
 
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Ravenel sees the world of college basketball
Mar 11, 2013
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| By Rob McCurdy
News Journal

COLUMBUS — Being part of a top-ranked team was neat.

Winning a Big Ten championship on the road at Michigan State was a thrill — as was the experience of playing in a Final Four.

But the most satisfying feeling of Evan Ravenel’s college basketball career wasn’t any of that.

“My dad is a big basketball junkie,” Ravenel said of his father, Eugene. “He loves college basketball. As a kid he’d tell me he always wanted to go to these places and watch a game, and giving my father an opportunity to come see me play basketball at all these different venues has been a dream come true for him.

“I’m glad I got an opportunity to do that for him.”

The 6-foot-8 center got his start at Boston College, so he played in Madison Square Garden and Atlantic Coast Conference spots like Duke, Georgia Tech and North Carolina State. After transferring to Ohio State, that meant trips to all the famous Midwest outposts, including a non-leaguer at Kansas.

“I really enjoyed getting to play at some of the venues we get to,” he said. “Indiana, Kansas, Michigan State, Illinois, Wisconsin (are) some of the best venues in the country.”

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Long goodbye

Evan Ravenel, the lone senior for Ohio State, played only five minutes in his final collegiate game. The reserve forward had two rebounds, two fouls, a turnover and one missed shot.

?It is tough,? Ravenel said about his career ending. ?You definitely don?t want to leave a place like Ohio State because it is an awesome place. The love and support you get here is second to none. But this isn?t the end for me. I feel like I am closing one chapter and starting a new one.?& amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; lt; /p>

Asked what he will miss about Ohio State, Ravenel said: ?These guys (on the team), the people at Ohio State. I don?t know where my life is going to take me right now, so we?ll see. But it?s been great just being able to come into that gym and know I am surrounded by a great group of guys.?
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