TroyTrojan05
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Man coaching makes a world of difference for the Buckeyes. Matta seemed to be a great recruiter but lackluster at developing that talent. Holtmann has his guys focused. Gotta be ranked now.
The Ohio State Buckeyes Basketball - 2018-2019
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Taco MacArthur
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Only in the tail end of his career and even then he had developed Tate and Bates-Diop into above average Big10 level players.
eastisbest
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There's a lot of undefeated and on e-loss teams still. Not yet a marquee win on OSU's schedule yet or did I miss one?
Michael Bluth
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At Cincy and at Creighton. Probably more meaningful wins than most teams have
nwwarrior09
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Those two wins are probably better than what most teams have at this point. I don't think they're really on anybody's radar yet due to the preseason media expectations being so low for this year.
Next Wednesday they should be 6-0 with Syracuse coming to the Schott. With a win I'd expect them to shoot up into the top-20 at that point.
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Next Wednesday they should be 6-0 with Syracuse coming to the Schott. With a win I'd expect them to shoot up into the top-20 at that point.
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Auggie
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Tough OOC roadies at any decent programs are data points when it comes to the tournament committee. Remember this was a program that was looking at the NIT at the start of the season, now if they go .500 and hit 20+ wins in what looks like a very under valued pre-season B1G could mean a 8 or 9 seed.
Yellow_Jacket06
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Buckeyes pull away to beat Samford 68-50.
Multiple starters were benched due to being late for game prep and Samford took a 3 point lead into halftime. Didn't matter in the 2nd half though. Kaleb Wesson and Keyshawn Woods led the way with 19 and 14 points respectively.
Up Next: Cleveland State at sold out St. John Arena on Friday.
Multiple starters were benched due to being late for game prep and Samford took a 3 point lead into halftime. Didn't matter in the 2nd half though. Kaleb Wesson and Keyshawn Woods led the way with 19 and 14 points respectively.
Up Next: Cleveland State at sold out St. John Arena on Friday.
Creighton just won on the road at Clemson, ranked #16...I believe.
eastisbest
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I think that was a tournament, not at Clemson. Nice win anywhere though. I agree with the responses to my post above, the Creighton win looking nice.
As of a couple days ago, OSU was ranked #1 in the new metric the NCAA developed to replace RPI. Are they better than Duke? Of course not, but it’s nice to see them highly regarded for their efforts thus far.
Yellow_Jacket06
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This team doesn't have the size or finishing ability in the paint to beat the zone. Frustrating game to watch.
Raymo
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The front court is small and not very strong,no go to guy last night.
ThePrepGuru
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Chris Holtman has been an amazing hire at Ohio State. Such a good move by Gene Smith, to not let the program go all the way into the tank before making a move. Kudos!
Buckeyes to play West Virginia next season at The Q in Cleveland. They also have home games with Cincinnati, play Kentucky in Vegas and will face quality teams in the Big Ten/ACC challenge and the Gavitt Games (Big East). I like that much better than the old Thad Matta cupcake OOC schedules.
Taco MacArthur
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The Tom Izzo approach. Load up to start the year.