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5/17/05
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Daequan Cook continues to lead his AAU team to championships -- and continues to believe that his two highly rated teammates will join him as Buckeyes. Cook has spent the last few weeks trying to sell the
OSU program to good friends Greg Oden and Mike Conley Jr., and the Dayton Dunbar star said he feels confident that Oden and Conley will eventually join him in the scarlet and gray. [
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Cook says he does not want to speak for Oden and Conley but that he feels very confident they will be Buckeyes. He makes a point to say he is not pushing them but that their decision will take some time and they are just trying to sort it all out right now. They talk to eachother on a daily basis.
Their is a rumor going around that Oden and Conley will take an unofficial visit to North Carolina on Memorial Day weekend while playing in a Bob Gibbons event in Chapel Hill, Cook is not aware of any plans to visit NC.
Cook said that Oden and Conley liked the fact that
OSU was a big school. When they asked him why he was so confident they would become Buckeyes he simply said that they have always talked about playing together in college and that has not changed.