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#20 Iowa 67, #7 Ohio State 60 (Final)

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iowa is bigg on the outside, or at least bigger than most. sooting from the outside will help, but if dials and sullinger or even butler can take the ball inside and score they will be alright. for that to work, the defense needs to play better.

i think they will find away to pull it out

LETS GO BUCKS!!

OH-
 
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Defense was a bright spot in my opinion also. Indiana only got a few open looks, most threes were challenged, and I felt that Dials did a great job on Killingsworth.

We certainly didn't win on shooting percentage!

Je'kel has been a non-factor offensively in the last two games -- he's far too good a player to remain quiet for long. I think he finds his groove tomorrow.
 
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I think we will beat them. Weve gotten better since we first faced Iowa, minus the fact that we're not shooting too well on the outside. Our D is awesome and if JJ and Dials play well along with a 3-pt every now and then, we will have this.

my opinion tho.
 
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Somebody had to do it -

Foster from 3 in his last 7 games:

0/6 NW
3/8 MSU
0/4 Mich
2/6 NW
1/9 Purdue
0/5 PSU
0/9 IU

That works out to less than 13%. In his last three games it works out to just over 4%.

Oh yeah, and we won all those games.

And I still want to get him the ball.
 
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NFBuck said:
Je'Kel needs to be on the court for his defense, shots falling or not.
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Agreed, but Foster's D was the worst I've seen in today's game against Indiana. Both he and Lewis were giving up perimeter drives too regularly. And the 3s that I saw Indiana make came against those two as well.

Foster is such a good player that you've got to think his game improves dramatically from here on out.
 
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I'm worried. Worried in the sense that we keep shooting three's when we're off the mark. I realize that we are a great shooting team, but when we go on streaks and don't hit shots, we need to realize that we must find other ways to score. We have a Big Ten POY candidate in Terrence Dials, who should be getting the ball more often then he does. We also need to realize that when we have a lead with little time in the game that we don't need to be cranking up three's. I realize that we thrive off our three ball, but I think our guys need to come to the conclusion that we are capable of scoring in many different ways, whether it be Foster and crew hitting three's when they're hot, or feed the ball down low to Dials when our shooting is off.

So, I'd be lying if I said there's no concern in my mind. I think we'll win tomorrow, but we need to play smart. And when we get this little time off for preparation of the NCAA Tourney, we're going to need to realize what our strengths and weaknesses are. All we need to do is play smart basketball. The way I see it we have incredible play at every position. We play superb on both sides of the ball, which is due to great coaching. The way I see it (unless a team gets hot), the only way we will lose from here on out is if we beat ourselves with mistakes and turnovers.

Here's to great, mistake-free basketball played by the Ohio State Buckeyes!

:oh: :io:
 
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BCSBust said:
I'm worried. Worried in the sense that we keep shooting three's when we're off the mark. I realize that we are a great shooting team, but when we go on streaks and don't hit shots, we need to realize that we must find other ways to score. We have a Big Ten POY candidate in Terrence Dials, who should be getting the ball more often then he does. We also need to realize that when we have a lead with little time in the game that we don't need to be cranking up three's. I realize that we thrive off our three ball, but I think our guys need to come to the conclusion that we are capable of scoring in many different ways, whether it be Foster and crew hitting three's when they're hot, or feed the ball down low to Dials when our shooting is off.

So, I'd be lying if I said there's no concern in my mind. I think we'll win tomorrow, but we need to play smart. And when we get this little time off for preparation of the NCAA Tourney, we're going to need to realize what our strengths and weaknesses are. All we need to do is play smart basketball. The way I see it we have incredible play at every position. We play superb on both sides of the ball, which is due to great coaching. The way I see it (unless a team gets hot), the only way we will lose from here on out is if we beat ourselves with mistakes and turnovers.

Here's to great, mistake-free basketball played by the Ohio State Buckeyes!

:oh: :io:
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While I agree with the fact that we are on a slump and we should be going to T.D. more often, I also know that to get out of a slump you just keep on shooting!
They will be fine tomorrrow and next weekend in Dayton.
 
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