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2006-07 Men's Basketball Schedule

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Buckeyes will be on TV at least 14 times

By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer
Put batteries in your remote, the Ohio State men's basketball team will be on television. A lot.


The much-anticipated 2006-07 Buckeyes will be on TV a minimum of 14 times.
Released Wednesday, the schedule includes six scheduled appearances on CBS and eight more on the ESPN networks.
Plus, OSU could be on TV in the regular-season finale at Michigan (March 3) and in the Big Ten tourney (March 8-11).
The "Thad Five" — national high school player of the year Greg Oden, Mike Conley, David Lighty, junior college transfer Othello Hunter and Dunbar's Daequan Cook — is heralded as a transcendent recruiting class.
Oden, possibly out until January with a wrist injury, might miss marquee TV games at North Carolina (Nov. 29), against Cincinnati (Dec. 16 in Indianapolis) and at defending NCAA champ Florida (Dec. 23).
"This is an incredibly challenging schedule for our young basketball team," Matta said. "We will be short-handed and inexperienced in the beginning.
"But I believe the competitiveness of who we are playing, where we are playing and when we are playing will make us a better basketball team."
Ohio State was 26-6 last year and won the Big Ten regular-season title. Led by junior Jamar Butler, the Buckeyes have just 10 scholarship players, including six underclassmen.
The Buckeyes host a regular-season opening Black Coaches Association Classic Nov. 10-12.
The brackets and times have not been set, but the field includes IUPUI, VMI, Princeton, Kent State, Providence, South Dakota State, Loyola (Ill.) and Ohio State.
The Big Ten season starts at home Jan. 2 against Indiana. Tennessee visits Jan. 13. Ohio State hosts exhibition games Nov. 1 (team TBD) and Nov. 5 against Walsh College.
 
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[FONT=Verdana,Times New Roman,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Walsh to face OSU in exhibition contest[/FONT]
Thursday, August 17, 2006 [FONT=Verdana,Times New Roman,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Repository staff report[/FONT]

COLUMBUS The Walsh University men’s basketball team officially knows when it will get its shot at Ohio State.
The Cavaliers and Buckeyes will meet Nov. 5 in an exhibition game at OSU’s Value City Arena. The time of the game is still to be determined.
The Buckeyes released their 2006-07 schedule Wednesday. They have another exhibition against a yet to be determined opponent Nov. 1.
Their season begins Nov. 10 with the BCA Classic, an eight-team, three-day event also including Kent State.
Among their bigger non-league games are trips to North Carolina and defending national champion Florida. The Buckeyes visit the Tar Heels on Nov. 29 as part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, and they visit the Gators on Dec. 23.
Ohio State also meets Cincinnati for the first time since 1962 when they play Dec. 16 in the Wooden Classic at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Highlighting OSU’s home schedule is a Jan. 19 visit by Tennessee. Other non-league home games include Eastern Kentucky, San Francisco, Valparaiso, Cleveland State, Iowa State and Coppin State. The Buckeyes plays Youngstown State at Nationwide Arena in Columbus on Nov. 24.
Big Ten plays opens with the Buckeyes hosting Indiana on Jan. 2.
 
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OHIO STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL
Difficult schedule awaits Buckeyes
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Coach Thad Matta knew the nonconference portion of the 2006-07 schedule would challenge his young Ohio State men’s basketball team. He put it together himself with that in mind.
He did not know the Big Ten would configure the conference portion of the schedule as it did: the opener at home against Indiana followed by road games at Illinois and Wisconsin. All three are forecast as upperdivision finishers in the race.
"They got me," Matta said yesterday after the schedule was released. "Hopefully you can keep your head above water and get into March and do some kind of good."
Seven-foot Greg Oden, widely touted as the best center prospect in a generation, heads a freshman class rated the first- or second-best in the country. But Oden had surgery on his right wrist in June, and no one has said for sure when he will be ready to play. Speculation has been six months from the surgery, which would be mid-December.
"We’re going to have him," Matta said. "I just don’t know when."
Four freshmen — guards Mike Conley Jr., Daequan Cook and David Lighty are the other three — are among five first-year players on the roster. The other is 6-9 forward Othello Hunter, who has to complete classwork at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla., this week before he can transfer.
Only nine scholarship players are on the roster, and only eight will be available until Oden returns. But that did not dissuade Matta from scheduling a road game at defending NCAA champion Florida, agreeing to play at North Carolina in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge or playing Cincinnati for the first time in 45 seasons. Not to mention taking on Tennessee, which won the Southeastern Conference East Division last season, finishing two games ahead of Florida.
"We’re trying to recruit the best (players)," Matta said, "so we want to play great teams and try to put this program in a situation where there are tough challenges early and hoping it makes us better for the Big Ten."
The Buckeyes’ season will start the earliest it ever has, Nov. 10, with the Black Coaches Association Classic in Value City Arena. The bracket for the three-day, eight-team tournament will be released Monday, but Ohio State is expected to play Virginia Military Institute in the first round.
Lewis helps Big Ten win

OSU senior-to-be Ron Lewis had 17 points, five assists and four rebounds as a team of Big Ten players wrapped up its trip to Australia with a 145-69 victory over the South District Spartans.
The Big Ten team won three straight games after losing its opener. Lewis was the team’s second-leading scorer, averaging 16.3 points.
 
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[FONT=Verdana,Times New Roman,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Walsh selling tickets to OSU exhibition[/FONT]
Monday, September 25, 2006 NORTH CANTON - Walsh University is selling a limited number of tickets for its men?s college exhibition basketball game against Ohio State.
Tipoff is 1 p.m. Nov. 5 at Value City Arena.
Tickets are $25, or $35 for ticket and a commemorative t-shirt. All Walsh tickets will be lower seating.
Tickets are available by calling Walsh Head Coach Jeff Young (330) 490-7020 or e-mail: [email protected].
The Buckeyes are defending Big 10 tournament champions and have one the most heralded recruiting classes in the country, led by Greg Oden, last year?s national prep athlete of the year. Oden is recovering from wrist surgery and won?t play until January.
Walsh won the NAIA Division II National Tournament in 2005 and reached the final eight of the tournament last March. The Cavaliers return every starter from last year?s team that won the American Mideast Conference regular season title.
 
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Tickets are available by calling Walsh Head Coach Jeff Young
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I just got off the phone with Jeff. The conversation went like this:

Hello?

Yes, is this Coach Young?

Just a minute. Dad!!! Phone!!!!

(several seconds go by)

Hello?

Coach Young?

Yes, this is Jeff.

Hi. I was hoping to get a couple of tickets to the game against OSU.

Great! Hold on a second, Let me get a pencil so I can write down your address. Would you also like a T-Shirt? If so I need your size.

What do they look like?

School colors. On the front is a picture of one of our players with a 'deer in the headlights' look. The back has the date and a picture of one of our cheerleaders bent over with her skirt up. Underneath it says "We got spanked by the Buckeyes". They are the same shirts our players will be wearing, only without a number. There is a pocket on the sleeve for a sharpie. Our players are hoping to get some autographs during time outs.

Sure, a shirt would be great. I am a triple X.

Honey!!! Do we have any triple X's left? (indistinct background voices)

We are out of triple X at the moment, but my brother in law makes the shirts. It will just take a couple of extra days. I can give it to you the day of the game. Would you like to ride down with the team on the bus?

Actually, I am already in Columbus. I am an OSU fan. Season ticket holder in fact. I just never get to sit in the lower bowl.

Wow. I could really use you on the bus. I am not quite sure where this place is and I sometimes get distracted going over plays while I'm driving. You could meet us in Zanesville. I will give you a discount on the shirt.

Sounds great. See you in Zanesville.
 
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These guys will not be able to blame their youth come big10 season. This team is going to be battle tested by the time conference play begins. I can't wait to see your young guys go toe to toe with the defending NC's.
 
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