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tOSU -1.5 at Wisconsin (ov/un 122.5) Sat 2 ET, ESPN

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The line won't show up until Friday, it should be close to a pick'em game.

And I think there will be some fungo squiggly sightings this week.
 
Big10 game of the year. The Purdue game the following week will be very tough also but after shellacking them previously, it has lost a bit of its luster. One game at a time boys but imo, if we get this one, we run the table and become one of the best of all time. Hell yes!
 
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The beat down of Minny i did not expect,to be truthfull. I predictd a loss here but this team of Ohio State is a mystery in a way. What i mean is, one player
steps forward and does his share of carrying the load, game after game. Now we have whisky to deal with. If ever there was a time to lose it would be this game. Is wisconsin as good as it was last year ? Do they have a nucleus of returning players? Maybe Thad has all the right players in thier place and can control the tempo of each game. And if we lose, what will the re-action be like,especially with sully, aaron and diesel the young freshman.

Our seniors will be thier to help them i'm pretty sure of that. I now start to notice the rythmn of sully & laughterdale coming togehter in the past 2 or 3 games both on the defense & offense. But then again i think this team has to find out what it feels like to lose before we go into march madness. I could be wrong but i have'nt seen an Ohio STate BB team play this good in many years that i have been around.
 
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Every single wonk on ESPN (and they interviewed like 6 or 7 for the segment) said we would lose to Wisconsin. Every one. I'd love to pour them all a nice tall glass of fuck sauce and get a big W.
 
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Wiscy has a talented bunch that play a physical brand of basketball and have a couple of players (F Jon Leuer and G Jordan Taylor) that can score in bunches (17+ppg for both). This, combined with their ability to play that stupid, Big Ten sterotypical slow-down brand of basketball makes this a game that almost guarantees to be close, unless Ohio State can dictate the tempo (like they did last game against Minnesota). They're also a team that has as good or better length than us. 6 of the 9 guys on their main 9-man rotation (8+ min/game) are 6'6" or better.

We tend to play better the bigger the game is (see @Florida, @Florida State, Purdue, and @Minnesota). Bet on the Bucks being dialed-in, focused, and ready for this one. Hopefully Wiscy players are reading their own press clippings about this one (media picking them to win), because our guys aren't. Two ways to beat them (similar to how we played Purdue): 1) stop Leuer and Taylor, or 2) stop everybody else.

Ironically, just like in football this October, we're playing at Wisconsin again when we're the #1 team in the country. This time though, the outcome will be different. Bucks pull away midway through the 2nd half to win this one, with Wiscy scratching and clawing to the very end. I've got the Bucks by 5.
 
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