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PG Aaron Craft (B1G 6th MOY '11, Def POY '12, Acad AA, Dolomiti En. TR - Italy)

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ESPN

Aaron Craft's last dance
Ohio State point guard's gritty basketball career is worth saluting
Originally Published: March 18, 2014
By Rick Reilly | ESPN.com
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AP Photo/Michael Conroy--Despite his size, Aaron Craft is not afraid to go where the action of the game takes him.

There is nobody in college hoops like Ohio State's Aaron Craft, who parachuted here straight out of 1948.

He doesn't drink. He doesn't have sex. And he doesn't have much of a jumper.

He's about as square as a pinochle table. He doesn't do Twitter. He doesn't watch Spike.

He's the kind of player John Wooden would've liked. Come to think of it, he's a little like the player John Wooden was at Purdue. He spreads his game over all the stat page. Nine points a game, four steals, five assists, three floor burns, two charges and one win. That kind of thing.

He doesn't do double digits, doesn't worry about the NBA and doesn't even look much like a modern college athlete. He looks more like the kid who rounds up grocery carts and mows the old couple's lawn for free every Sunday.

He's as old-fashioned as an ice box. He got engaged to his high school sweetheart (Amber Petersen), went to the in-state school he loved as a kid (Ohio State) and stayed all four years (with a 3.9 GPA.).

Naturally, modern America is going to hate a kid like that.

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Vern Lundquist, who was doing the play-by-play of the game today, paid him the ultimate compliment near the end of the game saying that he had never seen, and old Vern has seen a few, a more representative student athlete then Aaron Craft.

Sometimes Aaron played like he had to carry the team and he almost did today. Thanks for everything Aaron:bow:
 
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It's going to take some getting used to, not seeing Craft on the floor next season. Four year starters are rare these days.

Great kid.
 
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