Eleven Warriors - A Buckeye Sports Blog

On the Fox postgame show this evening, the crew did their best to talk up Florida’s chances when asked what they thought about the upcoming BCS Championship game. Jimmy Johnson lead things off by explaining that a really long layoff can sometimes help an underdog because they have so much time to prepare. [...]

Cinicinnati’s Mick Cronin spent most of yesterday’s post-game press conference crying about the timing of the first OSU/UC match-up since 1962. I knew the little squirt was a disciple of Bob Huggins so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but I hoped the first year head coach would take his whuppin’ like a man. It [...]

Greg Oden and Mike Conley Jr. had a happy homecoming leading OSU in a 72-50 dismantling of the outclassed Cincinnati Bearcats. The duo from Indianapolis sparked a 26-2 run to take 42-14 lead at intermission. The final margin of victory was the most lopsided in the history of the Wooden Tradition and could have been [...]

Fox Sports Ohio recently announced that they will replay 12 classic Buckeye Football games beginning December 23rd. What an awesome holiday gift from FSN!

Schedule:

12/23 (from 11/11/00) - @Illinois - 4pm
12/24 (from 12/29/04) - Okla. St. - 2pm
12/26 (from 10/23/99) - @Minnesota - 12pm
12/26 (from 11/19/05) - @Michigan - 7:30pm
12/27 (from 09/21/02) - @Cincy - 12pm
12/28 [...]

Where: Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, INWhen: 3:45pm ESTRecords: OSU 8-1; UC 7-2
Opponent: The Cincinnati Bearcats head to Conseco Fieldhouse riding a modest two game winning streak after going on the road to defeat Temple last Saturday followed up by a 67-57 victory over Xavier in the annual Crosstown Shootout Wednesday night. Freshman Deonta Vaughn led UC [...]

The AP is reporting that four Buckeyes have filed NFL draft paperwork. The four: running back Antonio Pittman, wide receivers Anthony Gonzalez and Ted Ginn Jr., and lineman Kirk Barton, all juniors, will now wait for an NFL advisory committee to estimate where they may be taken in the draft. The players then [...]

John Henderson of the Denver Post is reporting that Gator defensive coordinator Charlie Strong plans to talk to Illinois coach Ron Zook about how to beat the Buckeyes. Let that sink in for a second. The defensive coordinator of the Florida Gators is going to ask a coach that has never beaten tOSU [...]

Gary Parrish of CBSportsline has a great article on Mike Conley Jr. and how our stud point guard’s resume and skills have been overlooked his whole career as a result of playing alongside Greg Oden. I must say, I expected Conley to be a solid player, but I didn’t expect him to be the best [...]

The UC Bearcats beat Xavier 67-57 last night in the annual Crosstown Shootout which served as a tuneup for their Saturday showdown with Ohio State in Indianapolis. The game will be the first between the schools since 1962.

The game is part of the annual Wooden Tradition double-header however 96 year old Coach Wooden will not [...]

On this day in 1836, the Toledo War ended. Also known as the Ohio-Michigan war, the Toledo War arose from a dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over a 468 square mile strip along the border, known as the Toledo Strip. To make a long story short, the [...]