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

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Conley inherits father's ability in clutch

Point guard seems to play better when Ohio State needs to rally, just like his Olympian dad would do in track meets.


By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer

Friday, March 30, 2007

ATLANTA ? Mike Conley Sr., who won gold in the 1992 Olympic triple jump, was a pressure performer, often winning on his last jump.
For anyone who saw Ohio State rally from nine points down with three minutes left against Xavier or 20 behind Tennessee, perhaps the Buckeyes are a last-jump basketball team.

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Young Conley takes lead for Ohio State
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By Charles Odum
ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:41 p.m. March 30, 2007

ATLANTA ? When Ohio State needed leadership the most this season, one of the team's youngest and smallest players raised his hand. Then he raised his voice.
It was a rare low point for the Buckeyes. Coming off an 86-60 loss at Florida on Dec. 23, their confidence was shattered. It was only the 12th college game for freshman Mike Conley Jr., but as the team's point guard he knew it was time to be heard.
?We didn't come to play that game,? Conley said. ?A lot of players were down and getting down on themselves, and I tried to step up and get in their faces a little bit.?
It's not easy for a first-year player to lead, especially one as small as the 6-foot-1, 180-pound Conley. ?They kind of stepped back and just looked at me like it was kind of weird seeing me talk like that,? Conley said. ?I hadn't talked like that before. I was upset. I think after that people really started listening to me when I said something.?

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Conley exudes cool of a natural-born leader

Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:38 AM
By todd jones



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Freshman point guard Mike Conley, joking with coach Thad Matta at practice in the Georgia Dome, is taking the Final Four hoopla with characteristic cool.

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ATLANTA -- The kid is so cool you could hang meat next to him and it would stay fresh for weeks.

He's 19, a freshman, a starting point guard in the Final Four and his demeanor suggests that today will be just another day of basketball, like a neighborhood pickup game.
"I'm not nervous at all," Mike Conley Jr. said. "I don't get nervous too much."
The game, and Ohio State's fate, will be in his hands today as the college basketball world, including 53,000-plus fans in the Georgia Dome, watch the Buckeyes play Georgetown for a spot in the NCAA Tournament championship game Monday.
"I was born ready to play in a game like this," Conley said.

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Conley on side-to-side kick


Saturday, March 31, 2007 Bill Livingston
Plain Dealer Columnist
Atlanta
- He has been Greg Oden's little buddy, the eternal sidekick, all year long. Yet, Mike Conley Jr. is the reason Ohio State is in the Final Four.
People want to put the 7-foot Oden on a white horse with thun dering music as his ac companiment, but the 6-1 Conley is the one orchestrating things. For every analogy of Oden to Bill Russell, there should be two for Conley to Tiny Archibald or, at the very least, Nick Van Exel.

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Conley comes to the rescue
With Oden in foul trouble, freshman guard points the way
Sunday, April 1, 2007 3:45 AM
By Scott Fowler


CHARLOTTE (N.C.) Observer
ATLANTA -- Two 7-foot Goliaths thundered across the floor in the Georgetown-Ohio State national semifinal last night.


But the biggest difference-maker was only 6 feet 1. Dazzling Ohio State point guard Mike Conley Jr. directed his team to a 67-60 win in the Georgia Dome and a spot in the NCAA title game.
Conley was a high school teammate of Greg Oden in Indianapolis on a legendary squad. When the two went together to Ohio State, Conley's name was always mentioned second. He was the afterthought. The sidekick.

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Conley is making a name for himself


Sunday, April 01, 2007 Bill Livingston
Plain Dealer Columnist
Atlanta
- The perfect moment for Mike Conley Jr. came after another string of shining moments on a widening and ever-brighter stage. A television reporter asked him to tell the audience at home something they didn't know about teammate Greg Oden.
How about what a lot of casual observers don't know about Conley?
Begin with the fact that he, not Oden, has been the best player on his team throughout the Buckeyes' advance to Monday's national championship game after a 67-60 victory over Georgetown on Saturday in the Georgia Dome.
And that he, not Oden, essentially won the game in the first half. That's when Oden drew his usual early fouls and sat for all but 2 minutes, 41 seconds of the first half, having contributed no points, no rebounds, two missed free throws and two turnovers to the cause.
And that he, not Oden, not only kept the Buckeyes from melting down, but staked them to a 27-23 halftime lead by scoring 11 points on only seven shots.

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