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tOSU -12.5 at Indiana (ov/un 138.5) Fri 6 ET, ESPN2

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What a great day! Came home from the Johnny Clegg concert and watched the Buckeyes for the first time on television this year with two of my sons.

The refereeing in this game was atrocious. Indiana players hung all over the Buckeyes. Were it not for the lights out shooting, the Buckeyes could have been in a close one. I see what you guys mean, this team is very, very impressive.
 
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Just enjoyed watching this with two IU alum in my house. As the game got late the husband started to raise issues about the 'tat-gate thing. My two responses were:

1) Need I point out that IU basketball is what it is right now because of NCAA violations... and,

2) Scoreboard, bitch.

#2 quickly ended the conversation. Mind you, this is one of my better friends... but you don't come into my house and throw your stones when your's is made all of glass.

Scoreboard bitch, indeed.

:oh:
 
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No, you used to be able to spend them on frivolities (custom colors, favorite team icons) & tomfoolery (messing with other users), but there was a security glitch in the custom system so we had to remove it.
 
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buckeyemania11;1844709; said:
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The refs destroyed the flow of the game today - way too many whistles.

But I love this picture - Hightower is such a clown. I might have to make it into my avatar.
 
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colobuck79;1844845; said:
Great pic of Hightower. I bet he practices that move in front of a mirror. Also, I hadn't realized that Minny has middle aged cheerleaders.
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Wrong block M school.

You have heard the joke about why they went to field turf in AA right? Well, it really wasn't a joke. :wink2:
 
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Very poor defensive effort by the Buckeyes. I don't know if it was because Indiana spread them out or it was just a lack of effort on our part. Third time this season that a team has shot over 50% from the field against us. Very disappointing.

Craft needs to work on his free-throw shooting. A PG as got to knock them down at a higher rate. He was lonely 2-5 last night and committed 2 turnovers but I thought there were more.

Tomas has got to slow down on his shooting and pass the ball around a little more. He will get the ball back but it seems like he is looking at the basket way too fast.

Big chair will be interesting when Jared goes up against Johnson from Purdue and the boys from Minnesota. He is truly a beast around the basket.
 
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by Bob Baptist
Columbus Dispatch
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Not much more a team can ask for on New Year's Eve than to ring out the old with a win that includes a ready-made resolution.

"We're happy we won," Jon Diebler said last night after No. 2 Ohio State won its Big Ten opener 85-67 over Indiana in Assembly Hall.

"But we're not satisfied. We had one of the top defenses in the country coming into this game and we didn't play defense at all tonight. We have to really focus in and get our defense better because when it comes down to it in the Big Ten, you have to get stops."

William Buford scored a season-high 24 points, Jared Sullinger had 19 points and nine rebounds, and Diebler scored 15 to lead Ohio State (14-0, 1-0), which shot 60.5 percent from the field and tied an Assembly Hall record by an opponent with 13 three-point field goals.

Buford and Diebler made five three-pointers apiece for the Buckeyes, who tied the record set by Northwestern last season.

"We shot really good, but I think our defense was terrible," Buford said. "We had a lot of gaps. We were just trading baskets back and forth."
Indiana (9-6, 0-2) shot 50 percent from the field. Only two teams, Florida and IUPUI, have shot better against the Buckeyes, whose defensive efficiency coming into the game ranked No. 1 in the country.

As a result, "I never felt like we weren't in the game," Indiana coach Tom Crean said.

Buford and Diebler combined to make five threes, and Ohio State made seven of its first nine shots to shoot Indiana out of a zone defense and take a 20-8 lead only six minutes into the game.

The Buckeyes weren't able to pad it much more, though, until back-to-back threes by Buford and Diebler increased their advantage to 75-54 with 8:05 remaining.
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LitlBuck;1844871; said:
Very poor defensive effort by the Buckeyes. I don't know if it was because Indiana spread them out or it was just a lack of effort on our part. Third time this season that a team has shot over 50% from the field against us. Very disappointing.

Craft needs to work on his free-throw shooting. A PG as got to knock them down at a higher rate. He was lonely 2-5 last night and committed 2 turnovers but I thought there were more.

Tomas has got to slow down on his shooting and pass the ball around a little more. He will get the ball back but it seems like he is looking at the basket way too fast.

Big chair will be interesting when Jared goes up against Johnson from Purdue and the boys from Minnesota. He is truly a beast around the basket.
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Yea, Craft scarred me a little bit with some sloppy turnovers. I wish he would try to drive a little more too. We will see how he does against Minny and Nolen, he cant play like that though.
 
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A tape of the Indiana game often showed inattentive defenders, players helping off their men and leaving themselves too far out of position to recover, and the Hoosiers taking advantage of it by, as Matta put it, doing "a great job of moving the basketball and moving us around."​

Many of the breakdowns appeared to be by freshmen in their first Big Ten game, but no one escaped fault. "We messed up a ton of things," Matta said, "and it was some of our veterans that were doing it."

The 20 fouls on Ohio State, its second-highest total of the season, were a sign "we weren't as ready to play as we needed to be," Matta said. The Buckeyes entered the game averaging 13.1 fouls per game, fewest in NCAA Division I.
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