Turner Turns a Triple
Evan Turner is your Big Ten Player of the Week for the third consecutive week, this time sharing the award with Northwestern’s John Shurna:
Evan Turner collects his third-consecutive weekly honor after etching his name in Ohio State lore while leading the No. 18 Ohio State men’s basketball team to a pair of wins last week. On Tuesday, the junior guard recorded Ohio State’s third all-time triple double with 16 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists to propel the Scarlet and Gray past Lipscomb, 84-64. The Chicago native now owns two triple-doubles on the year, making him one of just 34 NCAA student-athletes all-time to record multiple triple-doubles in a single season.
With the effort against the Bisons, he also becomes the first Buckeye to open the season with five-consecutive double-double performances since Clark Kellogg accomplished the feat in 1980. Turner continued his scoring prowess in Saturday’s contest against St. Francis, adding 16 in OSU’s 110-47 rout over the Red Flash, becoming the 44th Buckeye in program history to eclipse the 1,000-point plateau. On the week, Turner averaged nine rebounds, eight assists and 16 points on 71.4 percent shooting.
I would say this is getting old. But it’s not.
If he isn’t a high lottery pick (I’m talking top 5) this coming draft there should be some fired GMs.
Well he might get hurt that way the Cavs can pass on him and use injury as an excuse, Dejuan Blair.
He’s legit Top 5. Personally, I’d like to see the Knicks take him, but they’d never do such a thing.
I know this is a basketball thread, but Lori Schmidt from 97.1 The Fan just reported that Luke Fickel is in contention for the head job at Akron. Um, crap.
I don’t see the drop-off in re-hiring Mark Snyder if the position becomes available, do you?
The issue I have is that Fickell, could have been, head-coach-in-waiting. Of course, OSU could always hire him away from Akron if he’s doing well when Tress leaves.
Actually, that makes sense. Wouldn’t we want whomever our next head coach is to have some experience as a head coach?
Not necessarily: Steve Kragthorpe, Dan Hawkins, etc.
And by ‘Fickel’ of course I meant Fickell.
I think as long as Luke is here, his name will be brought up for many coaching positions. I think it was just last year he was flirting with the D-Line coach position at ND. Personally, unless he really wants his own program, I don’t see why he would leave. A conference title and BCS game every year is hard to beat.
Why couldn’t he be a candidate for the HC job at ND?
Because than the world would end. I couldn’t be a fan of Fickell because he was at ND and I couldn’t not be a fan of him because of who he is.
What does Turner have to do to get this award. He has done everything else. Or did Shurna get a triple double too?
Just saw Jenkins is covering Moss, guess we’ll see how good he is.
already got beaten down field. luckily brady’s scUMmy brain couldn’t compute how open he was.
Are you talking about the Moss play or the Welker play? The coverage on Welker wasn’t great, but batting the ball out of Welker’s grasp was a spectacular way to bounce back
Yeah, he’s been up and down all game.
He hasn’t seen a lot of playing time this year, and they’re using him on Moss. I’d be crapping my pants right.
He’s earning himself some more PT tonight, from the look of things. Just had another great open-field tackle, and has been in position more often than not after a shaky start.
I still think they’d be better off moving him to safety opposite Sharper, but then again, I’m no coach.
You would say it is getting old, I would say it’s getting out of hound!