Will Turner be the much needed triple threat?
Ohio State
20-9, 10-8 Big Ten
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March 13, 2009 2:25 PM ET - ESPN —— Conseco Fieldhouse Indianapolis, IN |
Wisconsin
19-11, 10-8 Big Ten
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The higher seeds sailed through the first round yesterday, setting up what should be a great day of Big Ten basketball, as the top 8 teams battle for the automatic bid.
Ohio State is 5-2 in their last 3 conference tournaments, going to the finals in 2006 and 2007. They were the 5 seed last year as well, falling to Michigan State 67-60 in the first round.
Wisconsin is 10-5 in the tourney under Bo Ryan, taking home the title last year and appearing in 4 of the last 5 championship games.
| # | Name | PTS | REB | ASST | POS | # | Name | PTS | REB | ASST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | PJ Hill | 2.8 | 1.4 | 1.6 | G | 12 | Jason Bohannon | 10.2 | 3.1 | 1.7 |
| 33 | Jon Diebler | 11.2 | 3.4 | 2.5 | G | 3 | Trevon Hughes | 11.9 | 3.2 | 2.9 |
| 21 | Evan Turner | 16.8 | 6.9 | 3.9 | F | 1 | Marcus Landry | 12.7 | 4.5 | 1.7 |
| 44 | William Buford | 11.1 | 3.5 | 1.1 | F | 45 | Joe Krabbenhoft | 8.8 | 6.7 | 2.6 |
| 52 | Dallas Lauderdale | 4.4 | 3.6 | 0.2 | C | 30 | Jon Leuer | 9.2 | 3.9 | 0.8 |
Opponent
The Badgers come in scoring 63.3 points a game in league play, while holding opponents to 58.4 points. Their defense has clamped down since their 6 game skid in January, allowing more than 30 points in a half just twice over the last 9 games. Whisky shoots 44 percent from the floor, while defending at the same clip.
Of course Wisconsin took down OSU, 55-50 a few weeks ago at the Kohl Center, a game that featured 8 ties and 17 lead changes. The Badgers bullied the Bucks inside, to the tune of 15 offensive boards and 17 more shots, but their is no doubt the Buckeyes could have pulled it out.
Bo Ryan will stick to close to a 7 man rotation, playing 4 of his starters over 30 minutes and bringing in Tim Jarmusz and Jordan Taylor off the bench. The Badgers have balanced scoring, but as Bucky's 5th Quarter points out, none of them are game ending go to guys, leading him to fear a 59-57 Buckeye upset over his Badgers.
Buckeye Breakdown:
I know some of you don't give this team much of a chance, because of their youth, inconsistency and the fact none of the players have a B10 tournament win. But Thad is one hell of a tournament coach and Evan Turner is the league's best player, a perfect combination for a 3 day run.
Turner went for 23 against the Badgers the first time around and any type of help from his teammates in the second half would have lead to a victory. Remember, Diebler and Simmons combined for 2 points the entire game, while Buford, Lauderdale and Mullens had just 5 points in the second.
I discussed yesterday what the Bucks must do in order to have a chance for the win. Anything can happen this time of year and I hesitate to make a prediction, but every time I think about this game and this tournament, a dominate Evan Turner keeps coming to mind. Something tells me he is going to put on a show, so get your popcorn.
Etc
- Brent, Slick Steve and Erin Paigeviews are doing the telecast.
- Eric Wallace (DePaul) and Anthony Crater (USF) transferred to schools that went a combined 4-32 in Big East play.
Comments
go ohio state
Wisconsin by 8.
this is a very real possibility. But you know that you CAN'T WAIT for the buckeyes to rotate off of your schedule in football, bucky
WE WILL WIN THIS GAME.
I keep hearing Wisky won of 7 of last 9. Three of those wins have come against IU and Iowa. Not to mention one against scUM which doesn't impress me. Outside of their Illinois win a couple weeks ago and their win against us (squeeker), I am not worried at all.
We are the more talented team, as long as we dont beat ourselves, we will be moving on.
iball - from your lips to God's ears...
and I double "amen" that stuff about "as long as we don't beat ourselves." let's take care of the ball!!!!!
my prediction is that Terrelle Pryor makes an apperance midway thru the 2nd half and wins the game on an option read!
Keep in mind Bo Ryan and the Badgers aren't playing this one in the Kohl Center.
This is in response to the comment made by Bucky. You will likely win this game, but it must be nice to have a roster full of seniors and juniors year in and year out. Never a one and done, which is an epidemic at Ohio State. It seems like every year I have to watch youth against a vastly experienced squad up in Wisconsin. I personally prefer team experience than the young shake 'n bake stardom. Here in Ohio we can only imagine the possibilities...
Best comment I've seen in a while. Well done, and Go Bucks!
...or wait till football season
Anyone got an online feed available that won't get me fired from my job?
ET is the only one moving on O. ESPN's canned floor/shoe squeaks are driving me batty.
PJ goes off for 40 in the second half. done deal.
this team is so undisciplined...when is the last game Dallas didnt have an offensive foul when he didnt have the ball?
has anyone heard the rumors that Beanie ran 40's in the 4.34 and 4.41 ranges at todays proday?
Diebs is already 0'fer 3 from deep....
god i hate this fn team. they commit stupid fouls. we need to run on this sorry ass team
what a fuckin joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and ET just picked up his 2nd with 5:45 left in the first
i can't see the game...but i checked out the box score. it showed 8 buckeye fouls and 3 wisco fouls. i find any game that includes a discrepancy in favor of wisco that large to be questionable. wisco doesn't play finesse ball. they man-handle teams.
are the bucks really playing that sloppy of basketball?
i could not agree more why are we letting these oagers just stand around in their defense all game? we should be making them run the whole game. And if i have to watch another player on defense lunge at the baseline shooting three point shot because he is out of position i am going to throw up
Mullens, Turner and Diebs all with two fouls...Unbelievably, Simmons is keeping OSU in it with 8 of team's 22 points...
I hate watching games on Yahoo Gamechannel....
the only thing this team does well is suck
Can we buy a free throw?
why can't we run like that every rebound!!! it is there everytime. We need to run this team even if they get back we will still get an open 3.
Sort of like your mother.
Nice job snatching back that momentum just before the half, William.
Not when Lauderdale shoots 5 of the 8 of them.
We should be up by six. Let's not squander opportunities in the 2nd half. Go Bucks!
"diebler can't make a shot unless he's completely unguarded"
YEP
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Wiscosin keeps flopping like a pack of bitches.
I'm going to see your namesake tonight
I was just about to say to that. They aren't even trying to make it look realistic. They look like they're having seizures.
Praise the Lord! Our standard open-the-2nd-half-with-a-scoring-drought only lasted for 3 minutes!
I'm beginning to think we really will win this one.
There we go, Mr. Two-citynames.
hell yeah wide open wiscy three, that's the Ohio State i know
"when it works, it looks something like this"
hahahah oh brent
Matta is the worst gametime coach of all-time. Ya don't play man to man or anything just stick with the zone that repeatedly sucks.
Say something positive about Ohio State basketball.
PJ, I love your energy, but sometimes, you play like a mongoose on meth
I know we're trailing, but I don't think this is the kind of game Wisky wants to play. The two teams have combined for 22 points in just over 6 minutes, and all of a sudden OSU is drawing fouls and making free throws.
go inside please god!!!
And we're like, getting boards. I thought that was against NCAA rules.
watching OSU b-ball is like pulling teeth, everytime i watch one of our games i feel like we should be down by like 20 points at any given time
okay that's ludicrious, pj hill has never signed an autograph in his life
Guys, we should not, I repeat should not even be sniffing the lead in this game. Stop bitching.
Man, Wisky gets away with murda on the court
Bitching about someone not on our team making a three in 3...2...1....
i'm not angry anymore, i've moved on to stage five, acceptance. i simply accept that people will make threes at an insane rate against the buckeyes. i am at peace with the unfair, unloving universe we live in and thad matta's soft zone
HOW THE FUCK DID HE MAKE THAT FREE THROW FUCKING ZONE DEFENSE ARGH BULLSHIT FIRE MATTA
Wisconsin is shooting 37.5 percent from three land, and we're shooting 40 percent.
3 fouls for Lauderdale now. That means Turner, DL, and BJM all with 3. Not that Mullens is making any contribution or anything like that, but it means we might have to get some quality minutes from Madsen down the stretch.
it is painful to watch. so much talent WASTED!!! Who cares if Matta can recruit he can't coach for shit. The guy had 3 first round picks on the same team and couldn't get it done. Mullens got all fucking ball for his 4th.
Not a good time for our scoring drought.
Scoring drought only at 2+ minutes so far. Not that bad.
"Couldn't get it done" against a team with three players chosen in the top 9 of the NBA draft.
Really, you're bitching about losing a national championship. Pathetic.
OK, we seriously need some lock-down defense and I mean right now. How about a 12-0 run to close the game?
Agree with Tampa Buckeye - Matta only good coach for RECRUIT need bee good coach for ALL TEAM.
Turner heating up at the right time. Come on D!
I simply can't argue with this, coach. You've got me at a loss for words.
Wait no, I have them: Matta good only for RECRUITING not good for COACHING and thus NOT GOOD for OHIO STATE BASKETBALL PROGRAM. Just epinion, no sugarcoat.
I don't know guys. I'm not sure this is working out. I think we should look into bringing in some fresh blood to coach? I'm a diehard Bucks fan but I don't like this.
Now with 4 fouls.
Do we have enough time-outs to start playing offense-defense with Turner and Lauderdale? Bring DL in for D and then bring ET in for O. Or is it too early for that? I'm kind of nervous about ET's 4 fouls.
GIGGITY GIGGITY GOO
we don't need a new coach just man and press!
not just need MAN but also PRESS. No sugarcoating.
Woooo! Arctic Jon comes through in the clutch!
I don't know. I just don't like the attitude of the players he has been bringing in. Are they coming to play for us or are they coming to audition for the NBA? I don't think we can have long term success with these one and dones. We need more team oriented players that are here for the BUCKS.
all this talk of MEN and PRESSING gets me so HOT
you don't know shit about basketball so shut your cocksucker
Good to see a clutch shot from the Ghost...and a little camera time for Titus as well cheering from the bench.
i'm more irritated at the wide open looks than anything else, the fact that wisconsin is shooting 37.5% isn't due to our D, it's due to them simply shooting 37.5%
Mullens......2 pts, 4 reb, 5 fouls.
Yeah, he is Association ready.
It's ok to talk to yourself, as long as nobody answers.
tampa can't get mad for coach expressing EPINION.
someone will draft him anyways, NBA execs don't give a shit
I'm plenty happy this game is close with two minutes left.
Ok, we need a good look coming out of the time-out.
no threes
MANCRUSH
WOOT!
He's already thinking about his NBA millions, which is why he mailed it in today.
man pretty shot by turner, way to go young blood, gettin paid gettin paid
and now i don't know what's going on
Dude, You are for the gays.
Can't believe they had Landry going for the three. I guess they knew we'd be all over Bohanon so they tried to cross us up. he he
Pressure the ball!! but NO FOULS!!
ad hominem attacks both HURTFUL and UNECCESARY.
SCORE THE BALL, GET QUALITY BALL TOUCHES
i hope pj takes every free throw for the rest of the game and ends up with like 20 points
GAME OVER!!!
PJ Hill gives me a coronary every time he touches the ball. That guy is bats.
pj MVP...MVP....MVP
also, definitely a lottery pick
Idiot.
FINAL FOUR, SLUTS
hahah did we foul?!? man
BTW, I called for a 12-0 run to end the game. Right now it's a 12-1 run. I'll take it!!!!!
Offut fouled with 10 sec left
Didn't Offut die before the season?
Good call
Titus is getting a lot of camera love today.
I don't think he was 100% back from the knee.
CHICKEN DINNER!!
Badger stew for dinner.
Ballgame...Sparty next right?
So Matta just beat (or as we put it here for some strange reason, "outcoached") the 2nd best coach in the conference right now, with bupkus at the one, and came back to do it. Anyone questioning his coaching needs to step the fuck off. Try coaching a team of athletes, and then offer some criticisms.
Never pretty but we'll take it. If we beat MSU will we get a 6th or 7th seed?
woop woop woop
did anyone notice the great pj hill d on the last sequence there? i'm not being facetious, he did a really good job at positioning himself between the shooter and the basket. gg little guy
awesome! i don't think that anyone can deny us a ticket to the dance now.
lets just hope this continues through the tourney.
JIM ROME?!? OH BOY!!! *click*
If everyone else on the team played with his energy they would be a top 10 team.
As a former player I can tell you the guy sucks as a coach.
oh give me a break, that was not a pretty game by any means, we played good d but our offense is as scatterbrained as ever. and "Try coaching a team of athletes, and then offer some criticisms"?!? you're using this argument? really??
OH WELL, i guess we can't ever criticize any coach in any sport ever because we don't personally coach "a team of athletes," whatever the hell that means.
Please elucidate your criticisms for us knaves.
Great D and better rebounding won this game for OSU. Keep it up boys.
P.S. Try to lay off the stupid fouls.
Who cares how pretty it was? We won the damn game. We weren't supposed to. That's coaching.
no, coaching would be playing to the best of our ability when the other team is clearly off their game and then blowing them out of the water, not running around like chickens with our heads cut off on offense and praying that our d will win the game for us.
i like matta a lot, but he's not an x's and o's coach. period.
"Playing to the best of our ability"? Who the hell are you to do judge what the best of our ability is? Can you provide an example of some games we won where we played "to the best our ability" and did not "run around like chickens with our heads cut off"?
Look, I agree with you that Matta is not the greatest gameday coach, and that he has things he needs to work on. That doesn't mean this wasn't a very, very good coaching job.
BUP,
All respect, but Thads got some young X's, and not too many of them. You weren't banging X's and O's when we were marching to the title game in '06.
Nothing, I mean nothing, in Thads records as a coach backs up your statement. In fact, it proves quite the contrary.
How many Highschool all americans does Wisky have? Oh thats right zero. All im saying is Matta can find the players he just can't get the most out of them.
What the hell does that have to do with anything? And where the hell are your legit, schematic criticisms of Matta from your high perch of being a "former player"?
And I can't believe I'm writing either, but +1 iball
"You weren’t banging X’s and O’s when we were marching to the title game in ‘06."
well duh, i could've coached that freaking team to the title game. "hey... hey greg" "yeah coach?" "be awesome" "okay coach"
and pogue, you're being ridiculous. we've seen this team perform better on both ends of the court. today's effort wasn't close to that. nuff said.
bup, I like you, I do, but I just can't understand knocking a coach who has won 20+ games as often as he has. Really the only thing Ohio State fans have to bitch about with Matta is he lost a national championship game. His record otherwise is nothing but excellence. He wasn't pulling in Greg Oden and Mike Conley at Xavier, and he still won with ridiculous consistency.
It has alot to do with him not being a great coach. Matta's teams haven't lived up to the hype. I think anyone on this site could have coached ODEN, COOK, AND CONLEY to a title. Wisconsin is not a top team they have no business hanging with a team that has as much talent as Ohio State.
It is the coaches job to get the most from his players.
Thats it that is all I got.
he also got to play in the a-10 conference. look, matta is a really good coach, but he's got some pretty obvious shortcomings that he had years to address and still hasn't as of yet.
granted, he's still very young and will only improve, but i think it's legitimate to bitch and moan when there's something concrete to bitch and moan about. matta isn't working with some puds from bufu ohio who can barely shoot. he recruited some of the most powerful offensive high school players in the country, and as of now it seems like we've got about two offensive plays: give it to The Villain and hope it goes in, and let somebody shoot a three and hope it goes in.
when good ball movement happens, it looks great. it doesn't happen often.
Do you just not understand that we lost to a team that was arguably more talented than us in the '07 title game? 3 picks in the top 9. Matta got just as much out of those players against that team as anyone else would have.
That florida team was not in the class of Ohio State. How are those fla players doing in the league? Cook is leading his team in 3pt shooting % won the 3pt contest, Oden is leading his team in Double/Doubles, and Conley is Starting and had 31pt and 11 dimes the other night.
Who are the Three florida guys? oh ya Noah who sucks for the bulls. Brewer who i never hear about anymore, and Al Horford. Which one of the three would you trade for Cook, Oden, and Conley? Oh none? thats what I thought.
Beanie ran 4.38 and 4.4 today at proday. How can the Browns pass on this guy. I hate to see it being a steeler fan, but Beanie makes sense.
wow... the shake 'n bake worked and the youth prevailed in this game. i had this team written off from the get go. Some things i noticed in the game that were positive was rebounding the ball, good and decent shot attempts, and participation from mostly everyone. isn't that usually the recipe for success with this team?
oh yeah, to the post above me, the browns could draft anyone besides a kicker and a punter and it would be an improvement. the problem is, that is exactly their mentality...."oh, he's a good pick no matter what".... i mean what the hell? did they not have a chance to pick up a qb like rothelisberger years ago? i can't imagine them not getting a higher draft pick than pittsburgh.....unless they somehow traded their pick away (which wouldn't surprise me). they need A LOT of gems to get the wheels turning.
9 straight 20+ wins seasons says he knows what he's doing
Mullens is awful