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Ball was in the right hands
Sunday, March 18, 2007 Bill Livingston
Plain Dealer Columnist
Lexington, Ky. - The Thad Five was seconds from becoming the Thud Five. Ohio State's biggest name and biggest player, Greg Oden, had fouled out for the first time in his freshman year on what could have been called an intentional foul. The rest of the freshmen who arrived in Columbus to trumpet fanfares were playing as if dwarfed by the moment.
Ron Lewis, the Buckeyes' senior starter in the backcourt, told freshman playmaker Mike Conley Jr. the same thing he had told him when Lewis' 3-pointer beat Tennessee in the final seconds. "Give me the ball," Lewis said.
The Buckeyes, trailing by two points, broke their huddle with 9.3 seconds left and Xavier's Justin Cage at the foul line for a one-and-one. Cage was so hot, you would have asked him which numbers he liked in the Powerball lottery. But the numbers came up 1-for-2 when 2-for-2 would have sent OSU home as losers.
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03-18-2007, 10:40 AM
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Lewis sinks a sweet shot
Sunday, March 18, 2007
By FRED GOODALL
AP Sports Writer
LEXINGTON, Ky. Hold the questions about Greg Oden?s future. Ohio State isn?t finished in the NCAA tournament.
Ron Lewis revived the Buckeyes? national championship hopes with a long 3-pointer with two seconds left to force overtime, then Mike Conley Jr. dominated the extra period for a 78-71 victory over Xavier in a second-round South Regional game Saturday.
The Buckeyes? rally from an 11-point deficit in regulation ensured the Oden era will last at least one more game.
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03-18-2007, 10:46 AM
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The 1 that got away
Top-seeded Ohio St. breaks Xavier's heart with late rally, stunning 3-pointer, 78-71 OT win
BY DUSTIN DOW | DDOW@ENQUIRER.COM
LEXINGTON - How long was it? Two seconds? Three? Xavier freshman Derrick Brown was standing below the basket. It seemed like an eternity. And he knew it was going to end badly.
Brown watched helplessly as Ron Lewis' 3-pointer from 24 feet swished through the basket with two seconds left in regulation.
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XU seniors left their mark
Miller: 'The hardest part ... is it ends their career'
BY DUSTIN DOW | DDOW@ENQUIRER.COM
LEXINGTON - They won 89 games, played in three NCAA Tournaments and won two conference tournaments and one Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season title.
Xavier's seniors, Justin Cage, Justin Doellman and Brandon Cole, played their final game Saturday in a 78-71 overtime loss to Ohio State at Rupp Arena. But they ended their careers in a flourish.
Cage scored a career-high 25 points; Cole successfully defended Ohio State's All-America center, Greg Oden; and Doellman (13 points) gave Xavier the offensive lift early the in second half that put Xavier in position to nearly upset the No. 1 seed Buckeyes in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
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OSU's Matta says Miller deserves a raise from XU; Michigan, Minnesota have openings
BY DUSTIN DOW | DDOW@ENQUIRER.COM
LEXINGTON - Ohio State coach Thad Matta spent a lot of time in the days before Saturday's Xavier-Ohio State game talking about what good friends he and Xavier coach Sean Miller are.
After Ohio State's 78-71 overtime win at Rupp Arena, Matta went a step further and called for Miller to receive a raise.
"The thing with Xavier, it is a great program," Matta said. "Make no mistake about it, he's going to have options just like I did. I think the big thing for them is to put him in a position to coach, because Xavier is a big-time program. But he sits in the middle of the pack in the Atlantic 10 (in terms of compensation). His expectations are you better win every damn game to get to the Final Four. So, hopefully, when they get back, they're going to take great care of him."
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