Purdue Hands OSU First Big Ten Loss In Over A Year
Two of Butler’s 26 (AP: Michael Conroy)
I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later.
The upstart Boilers, led by 4.9 ppg game stud Marcus Green’s career high 22 points, outscored OSU by 14 in the second half to turn a 36-29 halftime deficit into a 75-68 victory.
The loss ended the Buckeyes 19 game winning streak over Big Ten foes dating back to a 72-69 loss against Wisconsin on January 9, 2006.
Once again, Jamar Butler led the way for OSU with 26 points (6/11 3FG), 5 dimes and 4 boards while Kosta Koufos played his most physical game to date notching 12 points and 9 rebounds.
Butler was the difference in the first half scoring OSU’s first 12 points on 4 triples before hitting back to back field goals around the four minute mark to finish with 16 of the Buckeyes 36 points.
The lead at intermission quickly evaporated as Purdue opened the second half on a 8-0 run before OSU weathered the storm behind 3 FG’s from Koufos over the next 4 minutes before Butler hit back to back threes giving the Bucks a 52-51 lead with 8:11 to play.
With Purdue starting take control at 62-58, the refs continued their horrible performance whistling Hunter for an illegal pick at the top of key. Hunter then lost his cool resulting in a T and once the dust settled, OSU trailed 66-58 with just 2:42 left.
The Buckeyes tried to come back forcing Purdue to the stripe with quick fouls time after time but it wasn’t enough.
While the refs (Rick Hartzell in particular) did their part to ensure a Buckeye defeat, the bigger problems included 20 turnovers, shaky second half defense and a lack of firepower to support Butler. In this vain, David Lighty (2/12, 6pts) and Jon Diebler (0/7, 0pts) were particularly guilty.
Those points aside, credit Matt Painter’s squad for turning up the D in the second half. Painter’s got a good enough unit to expect to protect home court on most nights and that’s exactly what they did.
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Refs were a big problem and my belief is that it was the result of overwork.
Hartzell has worked games 9 of the last 10 days. JD Collins has worked 13 of 15 days and 46 games already this year. Dave Maracich is the exception, he has only worked 9 games all year.
http://www.bbstate.com/officials.php?a=directory
nice find, TLB…Hartzell’s definitely been busy and he was by far the worst of the bunch yesterday…Matta was about as fired up at the refs as I’ve ever seen him…
How ’bout Iowa beating Sparty yesterday?!?! MSU managed 36 total points including just 18 in the last 28 minutes. Sounds like something OSU would do without Butler…
Went back to track the travel of the 2 who have worked a lot and am now getting a subscription page. Wonder why I didn’t get that before.
Jim Delaney’s probably tracking your IP address and once he realized your mission, he blocked your ass!
Delaney can’t stop me….here is a better site. I don’t know about you guys, but if I worked 13 of 15 days I would be pretty tired, even if I didn’t have to travel.
You know that Rick Hartzel is also the AD at Northern Iowa? How does he have time to work this many games?
http://statsheet.com/mcb/referees/rick-hartzell
Too bad he didnt get the New Mexico AD job last year then we wouldn’t have had to worry about yesterday…
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/sp_lobos/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19873_4496456,00.html
They couldn’t hire him. He was up against a Buckeye.
boone is back
Must have enough adult beverage money for 1 more year.
link for CL’s hat tip, Plain Dealer with the scoop: http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/01/ohio_states_boone_to_return_fo.html
can someone explain to me how kosta could be making millions in europe right now had he decided to go there and not play college ball?
and maybe i expected him to never miss because of what i heard but diebler has been anything but impressive on offense – he did set the career scoring record didn’t he? 0 for 7?
these next two will tell us even more about this team
@msu who lost to iowa?? iowa looked like a dIII team when we played them
and @tennessee
after that game against tenn. its big ten the rest of the way – and i expect big things especially after seeing illinois almost beat indiana today
the conference definitely looks wide open…nobody is elite, that’s for sure…
It is going to be an up and down season. Indiana and Whisky look the best, but they may stumble a bit down the road. Once again, it is going to come down to protecting your home court and getting 3-4 wins on the road.
The road wins will be tough to come by if they rely on outside shooting. It’s tough to bomb 3’s when most of these youngsters haven’t played in these gyms before. That game was extremely physical and if Butler doesn’t get some help soon he’s gonna burn out. I don’t feel very good about him being the primary scorer and ball handler throughout the entire season.