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PG Anthony Crater (transfer to South Florida & Georgetown College)

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OSU MEN'S BASKETBALL



Great recruiting class of '08 gets Crater



Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Doug Lesmerises

Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Thad Matta's recruiting machine rolls on. The Ohio State men's basketball coach added a fourth top 100 oral commitment for his class of 2008 on Monday with the pledge of Flint, Mich., point guard Anthony Crater.
The 6-2, 170-pounder chose the Buckeyes over Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Arizona. He's rated as the No. 24 player in the current junior class by recruiting service rivals.com. He joins other OSU commitments B.J. Mullens (7-foot center, ranked No. 3), forward William Buford (No. 49) and guard Walter Offutt (No. 92).
The Buckeyes remain hot after St. Edward's Delvon Roe, the 6-7 forward who's the No. 5-ranked player in his class. Like Crater, Roe was on a recruiting visit for the Ohio State-Michigan football game last Saturday.
"Everybody thought I was crazy," Crater said of his decision to bypass the defending national champion Gators. "But Ohio State is only four hours from my house and they're No. 1 right now, and Greg Oden hasn't even played."
Ohio State's current freshmen ranked as the No. 2 recruiting class in 2006, while the recently signed Class of 2007 was ranked No. 6 by rivals.com.
 
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OHIO STATE MEN?S BASKETBALL
Point guard chooses Buckeyes
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Less than three weeks after adding five recruits for next season, Ohio State men?s basketball coach Thad Matta brought a fourth into the fold for 2008.
Anthony "Noopy" Crater, a 6-foot-2 junior point guard from Southwestern Academy in Flint, Mich., announced yesterday that he plans to play for the Buckeyes. He chose them over Arizona and Kansas.
Crater visited Ohio State the weekend of the football game against Michigan, which gave him the chance to not only experience Buckeye Nation at its zenith but also see Matta?s system in action in a game against Eastern Kentucky. He said he made a commitment to Matta that weekend but had known for two months where he was headed.
"It?s just something about Ohio State I liked, the special connection with the coaches, the nice environment, the best education I can get," Crater said.
Crater joined three other high school juniors who have committed to sign with Ohio State next year: center B.J. Mullens of Canal Winchester and guards William Buford of Toledo Libbey and Walter Offutt of Indianapolis. Buford, Mullens and Crater are rated among the top 21 players nationally in the ?08 class by the Scout.com recruiting Web site.
Crater said he got his nickname when he was younger from an aunt who thought he looked like Snoopy from the Peanuts comic strip. Since there could be only one Snoopy, he said, she called him "Noopy."
Crater averaged 13.3 points and 9.5 assists as a sophomore in leading Southwestern Academy to a Class B state semifinal.
Michigan State and Michigan were not among his finalists despite the Spartans, especially, having benefited from a rich pipeline into Flint during the past decade.
"Coming up as a kid, I always wanted to leave, to see new stuff, see a lot more than what we have here," Crater said.
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akronbuck;671416; said:
:) :) Matta is the man.
Why couldn't anyother coach at OSU EVER RECRUIT LIKE THIS WHEN I WAS A STUDENT.:!
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I have learned to stay away. My freshman year, 1998, we were preseason #1 in football and I needn't remind anyone what happened. Sure, we made the final 4 the next year in basketball, but show me a banner that proves it...(haha). I continued to live in Columbus through the 6-6 no-bowl season, Coop's axing, and Tressel's 7-5 Big Televen initiation. Then in the summer of 2002 I moved back home, and then OSU ran off 14 straight W's and got the crystal football. Caught up in all the excitement, I moved back to Columbus the winter of 2003, just in time to see a 4 loss season in '04. I ended up moving back home again in the spring of 2005, which since then OSU has compiled a 22-2 overall mark, 2 Big Televen titles and will play for another national title.

It's like Reds/Browns/Blue Jackets games. I know those 3 don't win a lot anyway, but it's like they know I'm at the game, and will lose no matter what.

If it takes me living outside of Columbus for this kind of roll to happen, consider it a favor to Bucks fans everywhere, I will avoid living in Franklin County.

Mighty Impressive!!
 
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which is why we don't allow idiots like that over here...Offutt was a likely top 20 candidate before he hurt his knee. despite the injury, we is still a top 100 player in the class of 2008, is a good student, and fits in with the other players Matta has recruited in that class perfectly...anyone who doesn't trust Coach Matta and his staff by now is the real idiot.
 
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Thanks for the correction

No reason to make me try to look stupid. I apologize for the name mistake all I was pointing out was that for some reason not everyone can be happy. I too think Walter is a talent and very deserving.
 
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