Any more questions about who should be the Player of the Year? I didn't think so. Evan Turner shook off a tough second half (2/9 FG, 4 TO) draining a 37 foot triple with less than a second left to give Ohio State a 69-68 win over Michigan this afternoon in the Big Ten tournament.
The shot solidified Turner's legend around these parts and was aided by the fact Michigan chose not to guard the inbounder (Lighty) even though OSU had just 2.2 seconds to work with and had to travel the length of the floor. The strategy allowed Turner to reach midcourt unmolested before he loaded up a jumper that kept OSU's conference post-season alive.Despite Turner's heroics, it was far from a one man show today as four Buckeyes reached double figures. David Lighty complemented Turner's 18 points, eight boards and four dimes with 15 points (7/11) and five boards while Wil Buford overcame a slow start to add 15 points (6/13) and six boards. Jon Diebler was also a factor especially in the first half finishing with 11 points.
As we surmised, OSU came out flat at both ends and Michigan took advantage with an 11-2 run that took an 8-8 tie to a 19-10 Wolverine lead with 9:36 left in the half. The run saw the Buckeyes go on a six possession skid shooting 1/2 with four turnovers combined with slow transition defense and help side reaction to drives allowing buckets from marginal players like Zack Novak (2), Zack Gibson and Stu Douglass.
The light would come on in a big way over the final 9:36 as the Buckeyes woke up and unleashed fire and brimstone to the tune of a 25-6 run producing a 35-25 lead at intermission. The blitz featured a suffocating defensive surge that held Michigan to 3/9 from the floor with six turnovers (one a 10 second violation). The D helped ignite the offense as OSU caught fire hitting 9/13 field goals and 3/3 from the stripe with zero turnovers.
Diebler got it started with five straight points on a layup and a triple from the right wing before converting a conventional three point play five minutes later via a nifty lefty finish in the lane while drawing contact while Turner added five points and two dimes. Lighty (5 pts) and Kyle Madsen also came up big scoring four points in place of Dallas Lauderdale who was saddled with two fouls.
For the half, Turner paced the balanced attack with nine points (4/6) and five dimes followed by Diebler (3/5) with eight and Lighty's seven (3/4). The red hot Buckeyes shot 56% in the opening 20 minutes, assisting on nine of 14 buckets.
There was zero carryover of momentum from the closing burst as the second half saw Michigan use an 11-3 run behind three straight Douglass triples to cut the OSU to 42-38 before Lighty made his presence felt accounting for six straight points in what would become a 9-0 run building the lead back up to 51-38 with 10:28 left. Lighty's surge was comprised of a nice layup in traffic and another bunny off a putback of his own miss before a slick offensive rebound tip to Buford for a dunk following a missed three off the hands of Diebler.
Credit Michigan, however, as the Buckeyes simply couldn't put them away thanks to timely shots from Novak and Douglass along with the amazing performance of Manny Harris. The big time scorer was huge down the stretch scoring 20 points in the final 10 minutes but all it did was set up Turner for the amazing three pointer to win it as time expired. Unreal. What a great college basketball game.
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Sometimes you get your little brother excited when you're playing basketball. You let him get a lead and let him get excited, but then you take it back from him.
More like retarded step-cousin.
Before the ball inbounded to Turner I was saying, "destiny... this is our year." Ha! And this is why The Villain is the National Player of the Year.
Who is Thad yelling at after the shot? Looks like either someone on the Michigan bench or the scorers table.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?...
I call it the Jay Lenoing your opponent.
Hell of a shot!
Did you catch Thad Matta at the end screaming at SCum's bench?! Is there bad blood between him and Beilein?? Do you think its possible Beilein was the coach who did not vote for ET for POY? What was that all about??
Turner never ceases to amaze me, what-a-cruel-deathblow to scUM. haha gotta love the kid, absolutely love the reaction by Matta.. dam boys its good to be a buckeye!
Great play by Turner, obviously a very exciting finish. But the other 19:58 of the second half was a perfect illustration of why I'm only half the college basketball fan than I am college football fan (I missed the first half). The officiating was pathetic and, in basketball, officiating plays a more prominent role in the game than it does in football. When you get officiating like that, it's hard to enjoy the good parts of the game.
I've been asking the same thing, it couldn't have been the scorers table or anything, right?
Anyone have a link for a video of the buzzer beater?
I think he was yelling at one of the refs, but I could be wrong! Can't blame him if he was yelling at scUM's bench, everyone hates them, including god!
http://espn.go.com/ncb/recap?g...
Evan = my favorite Buckeye basketballer ever
everyone done jizzing over beating the 127th best team in the nation yet?
do you have a gun or a knife by chance?
I'm gonna go 1990's on this one...
Pic Caption "What you say about my momma?!"
He was yelling because they were going to look at the replay. Telling them it was good it was good... he got caught up in the moment. Matta (and just about every coach in the conference) is too much a class act to yell at the other bench.
Yet another douche among us. It was an amazing win whether you want to admit it or not.
If we lost you would screaming about losing, but now that we won you are pissing and moaning about a win. Beat it!
Umm, we beat TTUN in a manner that involved teasing them with the possibility they could win the game, let them believe that dream for 39 minutes and 59 seconds, then ripped their hearts out stomped on it, said three hail Tressels over it and watched them cry, again.
So to answer your question. No.
/now had it been northwestern...
I had this friend while I was at OSU. He was loud, obnoxious and extremely arrogant. One night someone walking out of Fly-Pie and yelled at him from across the street. My friend ran over, looked this guy straight in the eye, smacked the piece of pizza out of his hand and said "That's why they call it Flying Pizza!" This guy was speechless; he just stood stunned, looking at his pizza slice splattered on the sidewalk...
Stu Douglas had that same look today when Turner hit that shot.
Matta is such a class act.... um, not so much.
All the SCum fans are saying crap like, "Matta is classless," "The clock started late." LOL Priceless. They just can't stop their whining.
One did say something he doesn't know how many times tOSU can keep breaking his heart! I say get used to it, as far as football goes we will be on the win streak for awhile.
f the scum sorry you have to talk them with their bad nasty non teeth brushing breath. believe the best way to stop them is to easily give them the day count... 2302 days u infested rats up north!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mmm...
mmm....
uhhhh.... wait for it... wait for it....
ahhhhhaaaannnddddddboomgoesthedynamite!
*channels inner Brady Quinn*
Now I'm done.
Anyone hear one of the announcers talking about how one sided the rivalry has been? I don't remember exactly what he said but he said something about How Michigan fans are going to be upset with ESPN taking a dig and then referred to them as conspiracy theorist.
Nope. Plenty of HATE.
Best part of it all....read Turner's lips after he makes the shot...he is saying "What Happened?" HAHAH!!!! The Villian!!
Ohio is so much better than Michigan!!! Both Union states= Uneducated
I love that story.
Internet tough guy alert
That might be the dumbest comment ever posted on the internet.
I get that y'all own Michigan, but can you really say scUM fans are stupid? I mean, it is one of the best public universities in the country. OSU is up there too, but it seems to be a bit of a stretch. There are plenty of other places to hit them- like owning them in every relevant sport is a start.
Besides, I went up to Ann Arbor once and the fans were pretty docile- not exactly the "non-teeth-brushing" variety, more of the "incredibly boring and live in the library" variety.
Personally I don't care, I'm a Terps fan, I just wanted to see how OSU fans reacted to the win. Great job by the Buckeyes closing it out- as much as I want to make a case for Greivis Vasquez for POY I can't after seeing that shot by Turner.
mGoBlow is melting down. Suicide watch. You know you've done your job when they're all questioning God, and deciding he hates scUM. :-)
They're smart, all right. But that doesn't mean we EVER have to admit it.
Terps fans are stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kidding. Relax, it's our rival and we are going to say the most malicious things we can think of, it's all in good hate!
By the way, The Villain wrapped up POY honors a couple weeks ago, today was just icing on the cake!
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http://mgoblog.com/content/so%...
The Brian went Emo again (complete with kitten .jpeg)
non-admission FAIL.
Hehehehehehehehe
Did anyone else happen to see that Mike "0-4" Hart was at the game? He knows all too well about those heartbreaking losses to the Buckeyes. Wonder what he has to say about today's game and if the better team actually won haha.
Guys, This video is about Evan Turner.. Takes a minute to load but well worth it.. seriously watch the whole thing.. you'll see what I mean...
http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1268...
It would be something along the lines of:
They're nothing special, we would beat 'em if we played again.
or
I didn't get the ball enough or we would've won.
Either way, its still good to be a Buckeye :)
So what does everyone think about getting Illinois again? On one hand I'd rather have them than Wisky, as we have seemed to do really well against Illinois this year, and Wisky was looking much tougher the last few weeks. On the other hand, there's the whole "tough to beat a decent team 3 times" adage. Thoughts?
According to the Fan, Matta was screaming at Hightower because he called The Shot (the one which sent scUM back to irrelevance) too late to count while the other 2 refs called it good.
hahahha! +1 for Matta. great, this gives me even more reason to shout at hightower for his ridiculous theatrics!
I love coach Matta an how fired up he gets.
Cosign
I'm going to pretend that he was screamin at the michigan bench telling them how much they suck at life.
Let's just hope he doesn't punch a clemson player.....
There was a question whether the shot was taken in time - I'm guessing he's yelling at the official scorer regarding that.
No, I'm sure they're pretty smart; they just don't give a shit about their basketball team.
Greivis Vasquez POY..... what the fuck are you smoking? even in weak year no fucking way.
Comments on this blog sink to new lows each time I am look in.
Try to Google up "humility", "respect", & "gloat" and then get beyond the stuff above ^^^^.
Now matter how arrogant you get over beating a sub .500 team on a buzzer-beater when favored by double digits, your comments are.......(gee, can't come up with anything nice to say.)
The only word to describe what is written above is lame..... enjoy the crow feast that inevitably comes with such hubris.
We can carry our Buckeye fervor without this.
"comments sink to new lows each time I am look in"... not even gonna touch that.
but seriously, this is the internet. all comment sections on every site have their low points.
go find another soap box to stand on mr/mrs/ms morals.
"mr/mrs/ms morals" ??????
Just a simple plea for civility which is hard to find here.
then go away
strong comment
you're asking for civility on the internet, a place where it doesn't exist, that's all. hell, you'd be lucky to get it in person from most people out there.
Why don't we just ask for peace in Gaza while we're at it...
Yeah, Steve you're right; I've got your Stu Douglass right here.. ha!
Although, upon further review, the only thing that would have made it sweeter is if ET would have made the shot over that cocky little prick Novak.
I'd rather have Illinois, I think we have their number. Although, on the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
I can't stop watching that video!
The Villain strikes again!
Just imagine if Manny Harris or Vasquez hit that shot. They probably beat their chests so hard they give themselves CPR. But not The Villain. His reaction was like he expected it to drop the whole way. Truly a class act.
Hightower is such a clown.
Epic Terp Fail.
not classy? since when?
Masoli suspended for next year..There goes the Ducks chances..
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/...
wtf? Now there is an educated statement. Must be from the south.
Agreed 100%, I thought the exact same thing.
Chip Kelly "season long" suspension, aren't.
+1, I'll put my money on there being "obvious improvement in character from Massoli"
that explains the jorts too.
usc goes 6-6 next year.... regains control of the pac 10
also, i'm soooooo glad he didn't pop his jersey. so played out.
probably a nascar fan too... southern states get D ratings or worse for their education systems. osu is underrated academically and way better than sec schools.
quajariaq,
Your mom's farts are stinky.
queefjariaq,
There is nothing better than ripping the colon out of every skunkbear fan, everywhere. Troy. Evan. Chi Chi Rodrigueeze bringing the NCAA with him from WVU.
Your momma got a glass eye with a fish in it.
Enjoy failing. Again.
A plea for civility when talking about Michigan? Are you off your rocker man?
its really not about the alumni, b/c, as much as it kills me to say, it is a good university. It's more about the idiots in OH that are only UM fans b/c they "can't stand OSU". they are more the "non-teeth-brushing" variety. This are the people who couldn't get in to a 2 year community college, but love to talk sh*t when scUM wins at anything, then whine when OSU owns scUM. I can always handle a scUM alumni, for the most part. there tends to be a mutual respect there. It's the numbnuts that didn't go anywhere & then want to talk smack that really chaps my ass. 'nuff said.
"These are the people . . . " oops
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