Iona +13.5 vs tOSU at Dayton (ov/un 145.5) Fri 7:15 pm CBS

[Onebuckfan]

Good Night Gaels Sleep tight..We hardly knew ya..and that ICBM you saw was SLAM Thompson!!

 

[OHSportsFan]

is it a bad thing that I hope one of those crocs eats Anderson Cooper?

Not quite sure Anderson Cooper understood the producers when they said he'd be doing an assignment on 'Crocs'

 

[calibuck]

yap, yap, yap. Woof, Woof, Woof, WOOF.

:gobucks3::gobucks4:

 

[Bucknut24]

Brandon Castel ‏@BCastOZone 41m
"They had a whole mindset of what they were going to do and how they were going to score. We gave them a dose of reality." -- Lenzelle Smith

 

[OhioState001]

[URL="https://twitter.com/BCastOZone"]Brandon Castel ‏@BCastOZone

9m

[/URL]Cluess on Craft: "I think he gets away with body blocking you, grabbing you, holding you, but he's in very good position to do that."

Ok Clueless

 

[TooTall]

Holy hell.... 95 points?!

 

[scott91575]

Ok Clueless

Iona has no idea how to play defense. I think we all now know why.

 

[BB73]

Great game for the prop bets - won 8 of 9.

 

[Coqui]

Ok Clueless

There were quite a few plays I thought they should have called on Iona that they didn't either. I'd say it was fairly even on the no calls. ADV got raped once and they didn't call it.

 

[LitlBuck]

The Iona coach needs to get a clue. I know that they have run and gun all season but he should have realized that they were undermanned against the Buckeyes at he should have tried to slow the game down. I guess he just didn't want to win the game because that was his only option and he chose not to try it.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

sometimes ya gots to dance with the lady ya broughts to the party

 

[LitlBuck]

DAYTON — Watching video of Ohio State, Iona coach Tim Cluess didn’t see much evidence of the Buckeyes playing at a high tempo. The Big Ten is a witness protection program for speed.

What little Cluess did see, though, gave him pause.

“I said to my coaching staff and my players that if they ever played at our pace, they may just really, really give us a problem,” he said.

Ohio State did that last night, and in the process ran the nation’s second-highest-scoring team out of the gym.

The Buckeyes outscored Iona 34-11 in transition and 29-9 off turnovers in a 95-70 victory in their NCAA Tournament opener in University of Dayton Arena.

“We ran into a buzz saw,” Cluess said.

Deshaun Thomas scored 24 points on his son Deshaun Jr.’s first birthday, and Sam Thompson had career highs of 20 points and 10 rebounds, as Ohio State had its highest scoring output of the season and kept the Gaels 10.7 points below their average.The Buckeyes (27-7), the No. 2 seed in the West Regional behind Gonzaga and winner of nine consecutive games, will play Iowa State in a third-round game on Sunday. The winner advances to the Sweet 16 and a regional semifinal on Thursday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.Tavon Sledge led Iona (20-14) with 20 points. Guard Lamont “MoMo” Jones, the nation’s third-leading scorer coming into the game with a 23-point average, was limited to nine.

The day before the game, Jones said he didn’t think Ohio State’s defensive dynamos, Aaron Craft and Shannon Scott, would be “something we’ll have a problem with.” Craft had six steals and, with Scott, Thompson and Lenzelle Smith Jr., limited Jones to three field goals on 14 attempts.

Craft said he had heard a few quotes from Iona players but “nothing specific” directed at him.

“We didn’t want to make it a one-on-one type game,” Craft said. “This was about our team and how we needed to play defense together. We did a good job of taking them out of their offense and kind of making them have to go one-on-one sometimes.”

http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/03/23/lightning-round.html