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Rhode Island vs. Ohio State at Uncasville, Conn., Saturday, 5:30 PM ESPN3

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Craft with a great first half, 10 points and 4 assists. Thomas 8 points (4 of 9 from the field) and 9 boards. Malesevic, perhaps URI's best player, with 3 fouls in the first half to go along with 7 points. I can't watch this one, just follow the boxscore and listen to the radio feed, and it sounds like the crowd is a little pro-Rhode Island.
 
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Yeah, not a great performance from OSU, very surprising that Rhode Island was hanging with them. If anyone got to watch this game, it would be the end of the Ross to the NBA talk. Thomas with a monster game 25 and 13. Craft and Smith in double figures as well.
 
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Other than Thomas, Craft and Smith, it sounds like the performance of Scott probably would be the bright spot of the game from an OSU perspective. Thompson, Ravenel and Williams all made modest contributions.
 
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Hi guys, to carpetbag for a second here... I cover the Rams regularly, but I did record the press conferences for Matta and Thomas, who spoke after the game as well. Matta also briefly address the rumors of Rutgers and Maryland joining the ACC at the end. You can find the video here: http://patch.com/A-zBz7

Side note: My brain is fried and I completely goofed on "Motta" spelling in the video cutline. I'm just coming off a week of vacation, and it's still showing...
 
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. ? This maiden voyage for the Ohio State men?s basketball team was to have happened a week earlier, aboard an aircraft carrier in South Carolina, before dew made the season opener a don?t.

So the No. 4-ranked Buckeyes instead played away from home for the first time yesterday, and it wasn?t pretty. But they weren?t concerned with style points after a 69-58 victory in Mohegan Sun Arena over a winless Rhode Island team playing less than an hour from home.

?Any way, anyhow, get the job done, win the game, and that?s what we did,? guard Lenzelle Smith Jr. said. ?We fought, we clawed, we didn?t break down. We had a few letdowns, but we kept fighting and we stuck together as a team and we pulled it out, and I?m happy for that.?
Deshaun Thomas scored 17 of his game-high 25 points after halftime and had 10 rebounds to lead Ohio State (2-0) to the championship game of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament. The Buckeyes will face Washington at 4:30 p.m. today.

Smith scored 10 of his 15 points in the second half and Aaron Craft had 13 points and four assists for the Buckeyes, who had more trouble with the Rams than most expected.

Guards Xavier Munford led Rhode Island (0-3) with 16 points while 5-foot-11, 175-pound point guard Mike Powell was a game competitor with 10 points and six assists while going most of the 40 minutes head-to-head with Craft.

?At the end of the day, they?re regular people just like us, so we went into the game with the mindset that it was a game we could win,? Powell said. ?I know they?re ranked high and people probably thought we didn?t have a chance, but we all believed in ourselves.?

Ohio State led only 50-44 with less than seven minutes remaining before Thomas scored seven points in a 12-4 run that increased the Buckeyes? lead to 62-48.

The run started with a Craft three-pointer bouncing twice on the rim before it fell, then Craft forcing a turnover by Powell on the inbounds play. Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley earned a technical foul for protesting, and Thomas made both free throws.

?I thought Aaron Craft played a heck of a physical game on the ball,? Hurley said. ?I thought he was allowed to be a little bit too physical (on that play). I overstepped my bounds.?
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2012/11/18/win-tougher-than-expected.html
 
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Reading the recap reminded me, I was glad Thomas made BOTH free throws after the technical. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine that OSU has not shot the ball particularly well on technical/intentional foul FTs basically ever since Butler's last year. I'd estimate that they've only shot about 70% on technical/intentional foul FTs from 2009 through last season, when they ought to be 85-90% on those since they get to choose who to put at the line. Butler was automatic, but they haven't had anyone like him since from the FT line - hopefully DT is able to capitalize on having that role this year.
 
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