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Wiscy +5.5 at tOSU (ov/un 119.5) Tues 7 ESPN

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0 free throws attempted. I decided to find a Wisconsin board to see if they'd be blaming the refs.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=193&f=2565&t=11230368

A little bit - not much, though.

Not getting any free throws is tough to swallow when the other team gets free throws on plays were they weren't even touched.
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Same dude goes on to say officiating wasn't that bad.

Kinda dissappointing from Wisconsin fans.
 
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NFBuck;2298040; said:
No team in any sport, ever, has made it so unwatchable as Wisconsin basketball. Every game I see of their's I die a little inside.
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Word. I gave myself a headache slapping myself on the melon tonight, watching those nasty pale Badgers sinking three after three. Then playing sludgeball on D. Yuck. BUT ...

Great win by the Buckeyes tonight.

Then actually enjoyed watching basketball again by turning on the Kentucky-Ole Miss contest, which was a blast. Kentucky has underachieved this season, but they'll be dangerous as hell in March.
 
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For as long as Bo Ryan has coached Wisconsin, the area inside the Badgers defense has been a black hole seldom visited by opponents.

Ohio State tonight went where few had gone before.

Attacking the Badgers where they usually tighten a noose around offenses, the No.11-ranked Buckeyes scored 34 points in the paint, 20 in the second half, in pulling away for a 58-49 victory in Value City Arena.

Ohio State shot 63.6 percent from the field in the second half against a defense that had limited it to 39.1 percent in the first. The Buckeyes made 12 of 19 shots inside the three-point arc while attempting three from outside it, and only five for the game.

Coach Thad Matta said he was ?shocked? by that.

?It?s hard to (get inside against the Badgers) because they?re so pack-oriented. Their positioning defensively is really, really good,? Matta said.

?I don?t know this for certain, but I?d say that we?ve never taken just five threes against a Wisconsin team in the time I?ve been here. But we were able to find some seams.?

Deshaun Thomas scored a game-high 25 points, 10 of them in a 15-0 run that rallied the Buckeyes (16-4 overall, 6-2 Big Ten), in a little more than six minutes, from a four-point deficit to an 11-point lead. They rode it to the finish over the final 6 1/2 minutes to stay one game in the loss column behind Big Ten co-leaders Indiana and Michigan.

Thomas also tied his career high with four assists, three of them in the first 6 1/2 minutes of the second half.

?We knew it was probably going to be a low-scoring game because that?s what Wisconsin likes,? Thomas said. ?Coach said we had to show toughness, and we executed really well. We screened, we cut really hard, we passed the ball real well.?

Aaron Craft had 13 points and a team-high seven rebounds and was ?tremendous? penetrating the Badgers defense, Matta said. LaQuinton Ross had eight points off the bench, including a three-pointer as the Buckeyes finished the 15-0 run with five points off Wisconsin turnovers.

Traevon Jackson, a Westerville South graduate and son of former Ohio State All-American Jim Jackson, scored 12 points to lead Wisconsin (14-7, 5-3).

Jackson said it was ?crazy? that the Badgers did not shoot a free throw in the game. ?I?ve never played in a game where we didn?t get to the free throw line,? he said.

But Ryan, whose teams had never gone without a free throw attempt in 389 previous games at Wisconsin, chalked it up to the Badgers attempting more than half their shots _ 28 of 52 _ from outside the three-point arc and the fact his two big men, Jared Berggren and Ryan Evans, could not finish chances near the basket. They missed eight of 10 shots in the paint.
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/blogs/hoops-and-scoops/2013/01/01-29-13_wisconsin.html
 
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When the Buckeyes beat Wisconsin last year at their place, they only shot 3 free throws. They really rely on their outside shooting way too much. They usually shoot a little better percentage than they did last night. Wisconsin has failed to get to 50 points in three straight games. Last time that happened was back in 1996-97 according to twitter.
 
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Not sure how tOSU can have 'stifling defense' and yet not commit a shooting foul. Also of note was after the Iowa game when they got 22 (?) offensive rebounds, I would imagine that the coaching staff went back to basics on tOSU 'boxing out'. Good job. Only allowed 6. On the flip side, when tOSU shoots 65%, it doesn't leave alot of room for offensive rebounding for the Buckeyes. I'll take the higher percentage anyday. Kinda crazy when Craft is the leading rebounder though......I don't like Wiscy on the basketball court any better than I dislike them on the football field......

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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calibuck;2298343; said:
Not sure how tOSU can have 'stifling defense' and yet not commit a shooting foul. Also of note was after the Iowa game when they got 22 (?) offensive rebounds, I would imagine that the coaching staff went back to basics on tOSU 'boxing out'. Good job. Only allowed 6. On the flip side, when tOSU shoots 65%, it doesn't leave alot of room for offensive rebounding for the Buckeyes. I'll take the higher percentage anyday. Kinda crazy when Craft is the leading rebounder though......I don't like Wiscy on the basketball court any better than I dislike them on the football field......

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
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I believe one of the reasons why the rebounding stats were skewed the way they were is also because Wiscy shot so many 3s. That creates a lot of long rebounds - hence Craft getting a lot. Frankly, I'm surprised Wiscy didn't have more offensive rebounds considering all the shots clanging hard off the rim and flying all over the place.
 
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Buckeyes' production in the paint was largely a function of DeShaun Thomas deciding to take the ball deep against Wisconsin bigs who lack the quickness to deal with him. I don't like the back-em-down approach to offense usually, but against the Badgers a player like Thomas (and there aren't many) can use it to great advantage.

Note that when the Wisconsin defenders doubled him, he passed out to open shooters - hence his team-leading 4 assists.
 
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matcar;2298346; said:
Frankly, I'm surprised Wiscy didn't have more offensive rebounds considering all the shots clanging hard off the rim and flying all over the place.
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As Paul Keels so eloquently put it last night, "They're either ripping the cords or denting the backboards". :lol:
 
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Bucky Katt;2298348; said:
As Paul Keels so eloquently put it last night, "They're either ripping the cords or denting the backboards". :lol:
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Yep - there were a couple that came off of the boards/rim so hard it seemed like guys were getting their hands up to protect themselves.
 
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