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PG Mike Conley (1st Team All BIG, NBA All-Star, Oscar Winner, Minnesota Timberwolves)

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Wisconsin senior, Kammron Taylor, who made 12 of 16 at the line in the first meeting, missed the front end of a one-and-one, though, and Ohio State called time with 16 seconds left. The play was designed, according to Conley, to go to Oden in the post, but it wasn't available, so Conley said he called for the ball back from Harris and drove to the hole. He converted the floating runner with 3.9 seconds left.

"I definitely wanted the ball in my hands and I almost regretted passing it, because I wanted it back," Conley said.
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leaders will make themselves known. they always do.
 
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Wisconsin senior, Kammron Taylor, who made 12 of 16 at the line in the first meeting, missed the front end of a one-and-one, though, and Ohio State called time with 16 seconds left. The play was designed, according to Conley, to go to Oden in the post, but it wasn't available, so Conley said he called for the ball back from Harris and drove to the hole. He converted the floating runner with 3.9 seconds left.

"I definitely wanted the ball in my hands and I almost regretted passing it, because I wanted it back," Conley said.


So whats it gonna be?
I want the ball.
Winners always do.
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-Shane Falco, The Replacemets


Sometimes leaders are made through fire. Welcome Mr. Conley. Now go lead your team!
 
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Lima

OSU?s ?other? freshman starter delivers in clutch
 Jim Naveau - 02.26.2007
COLUMBUS ? Thad Matta says it was love at first sight when he saw Michael Conley Jr. play basketball.
Maybe Matta was more appreciative of Conley?s skills than ever before after he hit the game-winning shot on a drive to the basket with four seconds to play against Wisconsin on Sunday. That shot gave Ohio State its second straight Big Ten men?s basketball title.
At least the Ohio State coach was never more demonstrative with his freshman point guard.
As the crowd rushed the floor after OSU?s 49-48 win, Conley found himself being kissed by Matta.

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Morning Journal

Conley steps out of Oden's huge shadow
Jason Lloyd, Morning Journal Writer
02/26/2007


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IT wasn't long after the trophy presentation that the 19,044 crammed inside Value City Arena yesterday began chanting with what little voice they had left ''One more year.''


Figures. Mike Conley just won them the game, but the love songs were still directed at Greg Oden.

No big deal. Conley is used to it by now.
 
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NY Daily

Conley jumps to OSU's rescue



COLUMBUS, Ohio - When Ohio State's coaches and players went to center court to celebrate a second consecutive Big Ten regular-season title yesterday, one giddy Buckeyes fan ran up to Greg Oden and gave him a sign that said, "CBS Conley: Basketball Squad." The seven-foot Oden - the top prep recruit in the country last year - held it aloft proudly. He was more than happy to give up the spotlight to Buckeyes point guard Mike Conley Jr., Oden's former high school teammate at Lawrence North in Indianapolis.
"Coach (Thad Matta) told me that only he and I know what Mike can do," Oden said. "He just took over.

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Dispatch

Conley?s keen abilities seem to surface best at crunch time
Monday, February 26, 2007
BOB HUNTER
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Ivan Harris, left, and fellow senior Ron Lewis celebrate a Big Ten championship.
The postgame celebration was probably 50 "one more year" chants old, and the object of the chanting seemed oblivious to it.
Greg Oden?s face looked as if it had been carved for Mount Rushmore ? a portrait painter would be thrilled to have a subject so still ? as he stood amid a quivering swarm of jubilant teammates.
Then a hand punctured the wall of cell-phone cameras and pushed a cardboard sign in the direction of the 7-foot freshman, and Oden grinned as if he had just won the lottery.
He took the sign, held it up and mugged for the cameras. Conley?s Basketball Squad. In the aftermath of the Buckeyes? 49-48 win over Wisconsin, this was the slogan the 19-year-old Ohio State center might have chanted himself.
 
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SI.com


Anoint the point
Conley leaps out of the shadows in Buckeyes' big win

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- As thousands of euphoric Buckeyes fans mobbed around him, snapping cell-phone pictures and chanting "One more year," freshman center Greg Oden regarded the moment -- what could very well be his final game at Value City Arena -- with his standard state of ennui. No. 2 Ohio State's unemotional giant hugged a few friends in the stands, cut down his first piece of net without the assistance of a ladder, and without breaking much of a smile. He ambled over to join his more-jubilant teammates, who were mugging around the Big Ten championship trophy they had locked up by beating No. 1-ranked Wisconsin 49-48 here on Sunday.

It took a piece of posterboard, thrust in Oden's direction by an OSU student, to inspire him to finally share in the festivities. The sign, of the ubiquitous network-TV acronym variety, read "Conley's Basketball Squad." Oden, all of a sudden animated and grinning, reached for it and placed it in the hands of his point guard, fellow freshman Mike Conley Jr., from whom he has received assists in high school in Indianapolis, AAU ball and now, at college in Columbus...
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Theres no way Conley can be left off of the Big10's first team all conference list. I know Nietzel has had a good year but Conleys game has been all-around great from the first game to the last. If Neitzel deserves to be on the list also, fine, make him the second guard but Mike Conley is the best point guard in conference and quite possibly the nation- right now!
 
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