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

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A Gregg Doyel piece on Marshall Henderson.

What happens next in the NCAA tournament, and our search for The One, is up to you. We have to dislike somebody, and there are 16 teams from which to choose him, though you and I both know who The One will be. It will be point guard Aaron Craft of Ohio State.

Craft is perfect. He plays the right position. He plays with the right amount of effort. And he has the right demographics. Why those demographics elicit such dislike, I can't say. But earnest Aaron Craft is the one we're going to hate. He's a younger, better Steve Wojciechowski.

But Aaron Craft is no Marshall Henderson. Remember that when you and your bros get together to watch the rest of the tournament.

He's no Marshall Henderson.
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http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...miss-henderson-after-twofingered-goodbye-wave
 
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Arizona Wildcats prepare for the Tim Tebow of college basketball
by Anthony Gimino on Mar. 25, 2013, under Arizona basketball
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Aaron Craft is the ?heart and soul? of Ohio State, says Arizona coach Sean Miller. Photo by Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports

Grantland.com recently produced a 32-player bracket of the most hated college basketball players of the past 30 years.

Ohio State junior guard Aaron Craft was a No. 7 seed in the ?2000s? region.

Arizona Wildcats coach Sean Miller has a different view.

?If he?s not one of your favorite players, then you don?t like college basketball,? Miller said Monday.

It depends. Perhaps he?s the Bobby Hurley of his day. A point guard who looks like you should be beating up and kicking around the court. Cheeks flushed, not big enough, bad jump shot. And then he finds a way to beat you, the gutty overachiever who seems almost too good to be true.

There is usually a pushback against a player who has that kind of narrative.

Easy to love. Easy to hate.

Like this guy:

?He has that Tim Tebow quality,? Miller said.

?Tebow, at Florida, it wasn?t just his performance on the field, but who he was as a person, the leadership that he provided, the competitive spirit he embodied. It seemed to spread through Florida?s football team, and Aaron Craft does the same thing for Ohio State basketball.?

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http://tucsoncitizen.com/wildcatrep...pare-for-the-tim-tebow-of-college-basketball/
 
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Columbus -- Aaron Craft's friend, adviser, sounding board, Twitter spokesman, opponent, basketball peer, sometimes-critic and biggest fan was screaming while pacing in front of the television Sunday.

Little sisters.

If you wondered what Cait Craft was yelling, well, this is what she was Tweeting: "Alright Aaron, some free throws would be nice."

After her older brother missed the front end of two one-and-ones, committed two turnovers and missed two shots in the final five minutes, Cait Craft, a freshman on Ohio State's women's basketball team, knew before anyone just what her brother would do with the ball in his hands in the final seconds of a tie game between Ohio State and Iowa State.

He would shoot.

"From a basketball perspective, I knew," Cait Craft said in a phone interview Monday. "And just knowing Aaron, I knew."

Now her brother, the Buckeyes junior point guard, is a star, his 3-pointer with less than a second remaining lifting No. 2 seed Ohio State past Iowa State, 78-75, and into Thursday's West Region semifinal against No. 6 seed Arizona in Los Angeles.

Already named the nation's top academic All-American, profiled in national magazines, selected first-team All-Big Ten and praised for his defense by almost every coach he faces, Craft on Monday was even compared to Tim Tebow by Arizona coach Sean Miller during a news conference.

But Craft also had his offensive prowess questioned for the first half of the season, fought a hitch in his jump shot, was named in a website bracket among the most-hated college basketball players in the country and saw one columnist wonder if he was overly praised because he's white.

Crazy year. Good time to have someone keep you grounded.

Little sisters.

"If it's getting out of hand," Aaron said of his honors, "she'll definitely keep me humble. She's definitely proud, but she'll keep you pretty level-headed."

It goes both ways. Cait averaged two points and 13 minutes per game in her first season with the Buckeyes, admitting she sometimes didn't want to hear her brother's advice. But no one knows their games better, and the two-way conversations about what each did well or can do better are frequent.

"It's not in a hostile way," Cait said, "but we've always been able to do that with each other."

But when Aaron was averaging 5.7 points per game, and shooting 30 percent from the field during a 10-game stretch from late November through early January, yeah, his sister thought he could do more.

"I think he was thinking about it too much and he was putting too much pressure on himself," Cait said. "I am hard on him sometimes -- you can tell from some of the things I Tweet -- but it's just because I know what Aaron can do. And when I see him coming up short, it bothers me a little bit."
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But she missed the two games in Dayton, staying home Friday for a team meeting and then Sunday because she had too much homework. (It's a Craft thing.).
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She is flying to Los Angeles today with her parents:)
 
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