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tOSU -12.5 at Iowa (ov/un 135.5) Tue 9 ET, BTN

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you guys all wondered why I liked OSU football and Syracuse basketball. well.....this day is the reason. my whole college sports fandom was set up so I didn't have any conflicts on 1/4/2011.

suck it, hosers.
 
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Bucky Katt;1847601; said:
I feel much better about this game knowing that Devan Bawinkle is no longer on the Iowa roster. :lol:
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Oh, you said Bawinkle, carry on.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1847613; said:
you guys all wondered why I liked OSU football and Syracuse basketball. well.....this day is the reason. my whole college sports fandom was set up so I didn't have any conflicts on 1/4/2011.

suck it, hosers.
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Do you happen to know who plays on Dec 21, 2012? I have a bad feeling about those games.
 
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BB73;1847492; said:
Isn't there also some football game on tomorrow night?
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the basketball team might watch a rerun on their flight home:)

The No.2 men's basketball team in the country also will be the second choice in its own hometown tonight.

"What else is going on?" coach Thad Matta said, feigning sincerity, when asked yesterday whether he thought many televisions would be tuned to his team's game at Iowa.

The basketball game begins about half an hour after the sixth-ranked Buckeyes football team kicks off the Sugar Bowl game against Arkansas, so most TVs will be on the season finale in football rather than an early Big Ten basketball game against a conference also-ran.

Matta probably was aware of his program's spot in Buckeye Nation's pecking order before he was hired in 2004, but he has not let it impede him. On the contrary, he has taken advantage of football Saturdays in Ohio Stadium to help his recruiting.

After Ohio State accepted the Sugar Bowl bid, Matta had the opportunity to switch the basketball game to last night but chose to stand pat because the scheduling is better for his team.

"It's unfortunate, but I know bowl games," Matta said. "That's the Final Four, so rightfully so, our fans should be tuned in."

Whether the Buckeyes might enjoy a tape-delayed telecast of the Sugar Bowl on their chartered flight home from Iowa after the game remains to be seen.

"Can we watch it on the plane?" Dallas Lauderdale said to an athletic department staffer.

"None of the coaches have made it a priority," Lauderdale said. "We're definitely hoping Ohio State comes up with the victory, but we're going (to Iowa) on a mission. This isn't vacation. We're going there to win a basketball game. That's our main focus."

The main focus in practice the past few days was defense. If the Buckeyes don't defend Iowa better than they did Indiana on Friday, they may be watching their own replay on the way home.

After dissecting video of the win at Indiana, Matta said the Buckeyes "weren't as aware as we needed to be" on defense. "We blew assignments, we blew switches, we blew matchups. The first play of the game in our transition defense, we give them a layup. Our minds just weren't exactly where they needed to be."
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The rest of the article talks about how upset the players were with their defense against Indiana.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...ball-plays-second-fiddle-tonight.html?sid=101
 
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buckeyesin07;1847608; said:
How is this line only 12.5?
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Perhaps the oddsmakers & bettors don't realize that this Buckeye team has an average margin of victory of 28 points and has only had one game all season that they wouldn't have covered at -12.5. Maybe the fact that the Iowa games last year were fairly close has something to do with that. But it's a new year, and a new style of play for Iowa.
 
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OSU goes on an 8-0 run to tie it up at 17. Iowa outhustling OSU right now. They get several loose offensive boards and turn it into a 3.
 
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