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03-03-2007, 08:07 AM
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03-05-2007, 06:13 AM
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Buckeyes could win it all, or lose early
By Brian Kollars
Dayton Daily News
Sunday, March 04, 2007
It's tough to watch and read the coverage of Friday's bus crash involving Bluffton University's baseball team. I can't imagine how gut-wrenching it is to lose someone that way. I do know one thing: The parents of Springfield's A.J. Ramthun, the team's unofficial spokesman, should be very proud of their son. What an amazing, thoughtful kid. Our prayers go out to the family of Verona's Cody Holp and the others who died in the accident.
Race for No. 1: I'm not sold on the Ohio State basketball team. Then again, the Buckeyes appear to have as good a chance as anyone of cutting down the nets next month in Atlanta. It's going to be tough filling out those NCAA tournament brackets. I can't recall the last time when there were eight or nine teams with legitimate shots at a No. 1 seed.
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03-05-2007, 03:39 PM
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Walk-Ons Peters, Titus Do Their Part.......by V.R. Bryant.
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03-06-2007, 01:21 AM
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http://theotherpaper.com/TOP3-1/3-1_coverstory.html
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GRIM MARCH Remember when having a good basketball team was fun? By Erik Johns / March 1, 2007
 File/Dan Trittschuh “Every time they take the floor, they’re expected to win”: Unlike the Cinderellas of ’99 and ’06, these Buckeyes don’t get to be the spunky underdogs
The top-ranked Ohio State basketball team finally got its signature win Sunday. In front of a rabid Schottenstein Center crowd, the Buckeyes grabbed a one-point lead with 3.9 seconds left and blocked Wisconsin’s final shot to claim a 49-48 victory.
The win put Ohio State atop both the Associated Press and coaches’ polls. And those skeptical advanced degree holders in bracketology finally found themselves penciling OSU in as a probable No. 1 seed for the NCAA
tournament.
In short, it was a very good day for Ohio State basketball.
Yet there’s an odd vibe floating through Buckeye Country. Stick your nose into an online chat room or water cooler conversation and you’ll sense it.
It’s the same unease that infects hoops fanatics at the likes of North Carolina, Duke and Kansas—and football fans at Ohio State—every
season.
For the first time in more than a generation, OSU has a basketball team that is incapable of pleasantly surprising us. Win after win after win is expected, as is a trip to the Georgia Dome for the Final Four.
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good read worth the time... i like this quote
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“I really believe that being hungry and being the underdog is something you can’t manufacture,” he said this week. “There’s something to be said for wanting to get to the mountain, wanting to prove you belong. It can galvanize the human spirit in a way that being full and satisfied on the top can’t.”
“You can’t pretend what it’s like being homeless if you have a nice home.”
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and this is interesting
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“It has been challenging,” Matta said Sunday, shortly after cutting down the nets to celebrate his second straight conference title. “I told the guys this. I was worried.”
“I was honest with them. I said, ‘I’ve never coached a team that every time they take the floor, they’re expected to win.’”
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03-06-2007, 01:41 AM
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You have to love the confidence that these guys seem to possess...
I said it in another thread, but you have Lewis, Butler, Harris, Twig who were on the big ten championship team last year and guys like Conley, Oden, and Cook who have won mulitiple state and AAU titles, so they know when push comes to shove in crunch time they don't tense up as much most freshmen do, much like Texas has done while having leads down the stretch in their games...
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03-06-2007, 08:12 AM
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03-11-2007, 09:04 AM
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