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03-07-2008, 03:58 PM
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Lantern: NCAA witholds scholarships for men's basketball
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NCAA witholds scholarships for men's basketball
By: Ingrid Rivera
3/7/08
The NCAA has imposed a sanction of one lost full-ride scholarship on the Ohio State men's basketball team for failing to meet the Academic Progress Rate standard, said John Bruno, faculty athletics representative. The university is petitioning to overturn the decision.
Bruno said OSU has a two-year time frame to petition the NCAA to keep the scholarship. Bruno did not mention when the reduced scholarship penalty would go into effect.
"We're optimistic that we won't lose that scholarship because we have a strong petition but that decision is in the hands of the NCAA," Bruno said.
Bruno said the sanction was triggered by one athlete who left the university during the 2006-07 school year while academically ineligible. Bruno did not disclose the name. Players Greg Oden, Daequan Cook and Mike Conley Jr. left the team that year when drafted into the NBA. Bruno did not release information about whether these players left academically eligible.
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03-09-2008, 07:29 AM
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03-09-2008, 08:38 AM
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Dispatch
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Final bow for seniors
Terwilliger, Butler part of school-record 99 career victories
Sunday, March 9, 2008 4:51 AM
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
It was the first day of the 2004-05 school year that basketball coaches could work out players, and for Ohio State's new coaches, their first chance to test freshman Jamar Butler.
The first impression was alarming.
"They ran to the phone," Butler recalled.
Assistant coach John Groce called coach Thad Matta, who was away recruiting. "We need a point guard," Groce said.
"I was lost," Butler said yesterday. "I didn't know what was going on, how hard you had to work. I was just going through the drills, being lazy, putting up my shots.
"For it to turn out the way it did, I have to thank God first, then the coaching staff for how they've worked with me."
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03-10-2008, 05:27 AM
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Ohio State Buckeyes need to beat Michigan State again to be sure they are in NCAA Tournament
Monday, March 10, 2008 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Oh, those Hawkeyes, Wolverines and Gophers. If Ohio State had won at Iowa, Michigan or Minnesota in the second half of the Big Ten men's basketball season, instead of losing all of those road games to teams in the bottom half of the conference, the Buckeyes would be set.
Instead, to reach the NCAA Tournament, they almost certainly must beat Michigan State for the second time in five days after an angry and disappointed Tom Izzo spends the week explaining how much more angry and disappointed he'll be if the Spartans drop the back end of the doubleheader.
Earlier this year, he kicked his players out of the locker room and made them dress in the hallway after an uninspired loss. Lose to Ohio State again, they may be sleeping in the snow.
 This is a playoff game for the Buckeyes - win and they're in; lose it, they're in the NIT. Unless there's an NCAA case to be made for OSU even in defeat.
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03-10-2008, 05:47 AM
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Bob Hunter commentary: Repeat win would bolster Buckeyes' NCAA case
Monday, March 10, 2008 3:10 AM
By Bob Hunter
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
 NEAL C. LAURON | DISPATCH
Tenacious defense, like that of Othello Hunter and Kosta Koufos on Michigan State's Goran Suton, helped Ohio State rally.
In or out? That's all anyone wants to know now. In or out? A week ago, Ohio State seemed sure to be out of the NCAA's postseason tournament. It was 0-for-the-season against teams in the top 40 in the Ratings Percentage Index; the Buckeyes wore that 0-for-9 stat like a concrete necklace and the selection committee was poised to toss them off the NCAA bridge.
Then OSU won a big overtime game against No. 15 Purdue (No. 33 in the RPI) on Tuesday and upended No. 17 Michigan State (No. 15 in RPI) yesterday. All of a sudden Michigan State coach Tom Izzo was standing there making an impassioned speech in the postgame interview room about how good the Buckeyes and the Big Ten are, and he made a convincing case.
"I think all along our conference gets mangled, unfortunately, probably by you guys," Izzo said. "This is a good conference. Everybody talks down the Big Ten. I mean, Ohio State, they beat Florida by 15, they have Tennessee almost beat and Butler goes 2 for 10. This is a good basketball team. OK, they lost some games because there's other good basketball teams.
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03-10-2008, 08:54 AM
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