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On the jukes thing, ESPN has been making a typo all year on who has been averaging that 26 points. Jukes is 6'8 transfer from Alabama that came over in the middle of the semester change last year. He is not eligible too play until he has finished finals which aren't until the 17th of December. So Ohio State will not have to worry about him being down low. The player those stats should be attributed to is AJ Graves.
The big guards of Ohio State will have to get out and put hands in the shooters faces if they want to slow down the three point shots because butlers three guards; Graves, Green, and Campbell(although he is 6'7 you will rarely see him down in the paint posting up too shoot it inside the arc) are all shooting over 50 % from the three point land. Green usually only shoots it if he is wide open but Graves and Campbell will shoot it whether they have a hand in their face or not, and a majority of time it goes in. Ohio State just has too keep going at them and hope to get them frustrated.
Butler rarely turns the ball over and they can use the shot clock to its fullest if they have to so Ohio State is going to have to capitalize on every possession that they get because they are gonna come few and far between. This means Jamar Butler is going to have to have another good day of handling the ball and not making silly turnovers. That goes for the rest of the team as well. If Ohio State gets down early and starts putting up quick three pointers and aren't hitting them, Butler will know exactly how to put them away.
Right now Butler has been playing like a team possessed and Ohio State seems to be having trouble finding any consistency. Chances are Butler is not gonna keep up with their pace of hitting 14 three pointers a game for the last 4 games so I don't see Butler maintaining their 75 point average. My guess is it will be a lower scoring game. Ohio State will need to play a solid 40 minutes if they want to come out with victory.
Hopefully it will be a good game because I'll be there and I'm finding it hard to pick who to cheer for. I was raised a buckeye fan in Columbus since just after birth and parents have been season ticket holders to football and basketball games my entire life but i am now in my Fifth of Six years of school at Butler University. So what I am going to hope for is that it is an entertaining game and that neither team gets embarrassed.
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