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Oden planning to attend Ohio St.
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By Jeff Rabjohns
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Greg Oden plans to play basketball at Ohio State University, a person close to Oden confirmed Thursday.
No immediate announcement is scheduled, but Oden and Lawrence North High School teammate Mike Conley are expected to make oral commitments to the Buckeyes in the near future. Oral commitments are nonbinding; the earliest players can sign a national letter of intent is Nov. 9.
Oden and Conley, both entering their senior years, could not be reached for comment Thursday night after playing in the Indianapolis Star Indiana All-Stars exhibition game in Richmond.
Reached by phone Thursday night, Oden's mother, Zoe, said no official decision has been made.
A dominating 7-foot, 245-pound center, Oden this past year joined NBA star LeBron James as the only juniors to be named National High School Player of the Year.
He averaged 20 points, 9.6 rebounds and 3.7 blocked shots in leading the Wildcats to their second straight state championship. In one game, he blocked 18 shots.
Word of Oden's choice came two days after the NBA changed its rules for the draft, requiring that players need to be at least one year out of high school. Oden -- widely projected as the No. 1 pick in the 2006 draft before the rule change -- has said all along that he wanted to play college basketball, narrowing his choices to Ohio State, Indiana, Wake Forest and Michigan State.
Conley, one of the top-ranked point guards in the nation, averaged 10.7 points and five assists for Lawrence North last season. He had narrowed his choices to Ohio State and Wake Forest.
Earlier this month, Oden and Conley took part in the USA Basketball Youth Development Festival in San Diego.
Shooting guard Daequan Cook, an AAU teammate of Oden's and Conley's from Dayton, Ohio, also heading into his senior year, orally committed to Ohio State this spring.
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June 24, 2005
indiana all-Stars exhibition: junior all-stars 109, boys all-Stars 96
Juniors thrive with teamwork
Boys All-Stars, dominated on boards and unable to hit 3-pointers, suffer 1st exhibition loss.
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By Andrea Cohen
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RICHMOND, Ind. -- The way the boys Junior All-Stars played Thursday night in their 109-96 victory over the Indianapolis Star Indiana All-Stars at Richmond High School, one would think they were the team that had spent the past two weeks practicing together every day.
Executing behind-the-back passes and alley-oops, the Junior All-Stars led by 15 at the half, and despite a run by the seniors in the middle of the second half, the Juniors' lead was never in doubt in the last five minutes.
"We played as a team," Lawrence North High School star Greg Oden said. "We passed the ball. We played decent defense. And all their 3s weren't going in, so that helped."
The Juniors' dominance of the boards also was key.
"When you get outrebounded 50-28, you're going to have a hard time winning," Indiana All-Stars coach Joe Buck said. "In the first half especially, I think they were a lot more aggressive in all points of the game."
The juniors, led by Oden, dominated the inside, forcing the seniors to take more outside shots than Buck wanted to see.
The All-Stars were 9-of-30 from 3-point range.
Richmond High School grad Dominic James, the clear crowd favorite, led the All-Stars with 26 points.
Adam Arnold had 20 points for the seniors and Jason Holsinger, suffering from shin splints, had 14.
Lawrence North's Mike Conley led the juniors in scoring with 24 points and had 10 assists.
Both Conley and Grayson Flittner completed some crisp, flashy passes to Oden, who finished with 17 points.
"We didn't play together this year," Flittner said of Conley and Oden, former Spiece Indy Heat teammates. "But we hang out a lot, play a lot together. I think our team chemistry lasted from years past."
Chris Kramer supplied the icing on the juniors' win, scoring 13 of his 23 points in the last five minutes.
The All-Stars' final game against Kentucky is Saturday night at Conseco Fieldhouse.
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Conley led with 24 points, 10 assists and 4 rebounds in the win.
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