tOSU 60 Michigan St. 67 (Final)

[BB73]

Hunter fouled out.

Walton hits 2 more free throws - 56-65.

Turner fouled on a drive - makes 2 FT, 58-65 - 30 seconds left

 

[billmac91]

always a fan of the late whistle in our favor when they game has been decided

evens it out a little on the stat sheet

aren't going to win 8 on 5 and we certainly didn't today.

 

[RuGettinIt]

Izzo is a refree puppeteer and he played them masterfully after last Sunday's game.....

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Walton makes another, and misses. Turner boards. 66-58

Hill shoots a 3 & misses, MSU boards and is fouled with :18 to play.

Morgan makes the 1st and misses the 2nd. 67-58.

KK lays it in. 67-60. Bucks not fouling.

MSU 67, OSU 60 - FINAL.


:(

 

[JohnnyCockfight]

One thing you can count on in our favor. Tom Izzo will put his conference ambassador hat on and make the case for Ohio State to be selected as an at-large.

 

[OCBucksFan]

Well, hrm... I don't really know what to say. Today just wasn't the Bucks day, that's what it comes down to. I guess you could say that 50 seconds changed the whole game, but the reality is that the Bucks went cold. It's tough to beat a team twice, even tougher when you have to play them two times in a row, especially when you consider a team of MSU's talent.

They could have done a few things differently, but the reality is that Neitzel played a pretty much flawless game. We run the Zone defense, the best way to beat that is to start killing em from behind the arch.

Considering the talent we lost last year, and how young this team is, we did better than I figured we would.

For now, let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that our regular season is enough to put us into the tourney.

GO BUCKS!

 

[FKAGobucks877]

I'm typically not one to complain about the ref's (win in spite of 'em, not lose because of them), but that series of whistles on Koufas and Hunter was maybe the worst series of foul calls that I have seen. Wow.

 

[bkochmc]

2 things that gave this game to MSU:
1) The minute stretch with 4 fouls and 1 tech
2) MSU hit their free throws down the stretch... OSU missed some critical ones

If this team doesn't make the NCAA's (and I would be surprised if they do) they could be a very good NIT team

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Dang.

 

[tibor75]

The better team won.

 

[Steve19]

It is a bloody shame to see these guys go down this way, on the whim of the officials in one minute of the game.

 

[buckeyes_rock]

Didn't go our way today...and the refs didn't help any.

What can ya say?

 

[billmac91]

Izzo is a refree puppeteer and he played them masterfully after last Sunday's game.....

the way the sequence all went down, I don't think it had to do with any puppeteering. The officials are just incompetent and don't know how to call the game. They anticipated calls that didn't materialize, saw things that didn't happen, and just generally sucked. And they let the game get away from them.

 

[Steve19]

The better team won.

 

[billmac91]

Kosta solidified his first round status today.