Top 10 Ohio State basketball players from Northwest Ohio

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Neshaun Coleman was in the guard mix on Jim O’Brien’s Final Four team, but he wouldn’t knock out any of the top ten.
 
And I loved Hopson at OSU, but I would flip flop him and Jimmy Jackson. JJ is one of the best all around college players I’ve ever seen.
 
cjb5656 said:
Neshaun Coleman was in the guard mix on Jim O’Brien’s Final Four team, but he wouldn’t knock out any of the top ten.
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The 10th spot was between Marc Loving, Neshaun Coleman and Jermaine Tate

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And I loved Hopson at OSU, but I would flip flop him and Jimmy Jackson. JJ is one of the best all around college players I’ve ever seen.
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The two biggest reasons I put Hopson first was that he played all four years and is the all time leading scorer.
 
A good list. For me it is JJ, Hopson, Craft, Ransey, Diebler, Buford, Butler and the rest. Loving at 10 just means the list should have stopped at 9.
 
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#1 Ransey and it's not close.
The team he signed onto was alltimeshitty and he made them respected as a Freshman in one of the B10s best eras. Herb WIlliams added the following year and they're winning more than losing. By Senior year and the addition of Kellogg they're top ten. He leaves and the team with Williams, Kellogg, Todd Penn and Carter Scott, shitsthebed.

Ransey finished top ten an almost EVERY category and #1-5 in most.
 
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#1 Ransey and it's not close.
The team he signed onto was alltimeshitty and he made them respected as a Freshman in one of the B10s best eras. Herb WIlliams added the following year and they're winning more than losing. By Senior year and the addition of Kellogg they're top ten. He leaves and the team with Williams, Kellogg, Todd Penn and Carter Scott, shitsthebed.

Ransey finished top ten an almost EVERY category and #1-5 in most.
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What you wrote is all true, but Jimmy Jackson also had OSU competing at a high level also in a great B1G era.
 
cjb5656 said:
What you wrote is all true, but Jimmy Jackson also had OSU competing at a high level also in a great B1G era.
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I suppose. B10 actually won a championship during Ransey's years.
NBA rookie years: Both 4th picks. Jackson made third team all-rookie. Dallas won a couple games. Ransey was 2nd ROY, Portland went from 38-44 to 45-37

OSU wasn't horrible before JJ got there.
19-15 the year before Jackson got there and similar after he left.
6-20 the year before Ransey

Ohio St the first year without Ransey and with two all-timers in Kellogg and Herb Williams and future draft picks Carter Scott, Jim Smith, Granville Waiters, and Tony Campbell, fell from 20-10 to 14-13.

Comparing the talent of the eras, granted I'm sure they were something in Jacksons time. That call a timeout fab five was something. IDK. I had made a list once of the non-Purdue players I saw, this was Ransey's era also. I didn't filter out just the B10 players but feel free as other than the B10 players (Purdue's not listed) I don't know which ones Ransey played against. There's one or two B10 HOFers there I'm sure.
Freshman Year
Reggie King Alabama
Randy Ayers Miami
Eddie Johnson Ill
Mike Woodson Indiana
Michale Thompson Minn
Kevin McHale Minn
Kelvin Ransey OSU
Herb Williams OSU
Magic Johnson MSU
Jay Vincent MSU
Ronnie Lester Iowa
Wes Mathews (Sr) Wisc
Soph
Andrew Toney Lousiana
Larry Bird Indiana St.
Kurt Rambis Santa Clara
Phil Hubbard Michigan
Trent Tucker MSU
Jim Paxson Dayton
Randy Wittman Indiana

Junior
Louie Orr Syracuse
Roosevelt Bouie Syracuse
Danny Schayes Syracuse
Isiah Thomas Indiana
Landon Turner Indiana
Randy Breuer Minn
Clark Kellogg OSU
Granville Waiters OSU
Sr
Herb Williams OSU
Tony Campbell OSU
Derek Harper Ill
Gene Banks Duke
Grad
Dale Ellis Tenn
Derek Smith Louisville (7 future NBA players on that squad)
Rodney McCray Louisville
Kevin Willis MSU
Brad Sellers Wisc
Uwe Blab Indiana
Kevin Duckworth E. Ill
Ron Anderson Fresno St
Ron Harper Miami
Roy Tarpley Michigan
;)
 
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I suppose. B10 actually won a championship during Ransey's years.
NBA rookie years: Both 4th picks. Jackson made third team all-rookie. Dallas won a couple games. Ransey was 2nd ROY, Portland went from 38-44 to 45-37

OSU wasn't horrible before JJ got there.
19-15 the year before Jackson got there and similar after he left.
6-20 the year before Ransey

Ohio St the first year without Ransey and with two all-timers in Kellogg and Herb Williams and future draft picks Carter Scott, Jim Smith, Granville Waiters, and Tony Campbell, fell from 20-10 to 14-13.

Comparing the talent of the eras, granted I'm sure they were something in Jacksons time. That call a timeout fab five was something. IDK. I had made a list once of the non-Purdue players I saw, this was Ransey's era also. I didn't filter out just the B10 players but feel free as other than the B10 players (Purdue's not listed) I don't know which ones Ransey played against. There's one or two B10 HOFers there I'm sure.
Freshman Year
Reggie King Alabama
Randy Ayers Miami
Eddie Johnson Ill
Mike Woodson Indiana
Michale Thompson Minn
Kevin McHale Minn
Kelvin Ransey OSU
Herb Williams OSU
Magic Johnson MSU
Jay Vincent MSU
Ronnie Lester Iowa
Wes Mathews (Sr) Wisc
Soph
Andrew Toney Lousiana
Larry Bird Indiana St.
Kurt Rambis Santa Clara
Phil Hubbard Michigan
Trent Tucker MSU
Jim Paxson Dayton
Randy Wittman Indiana

Junior
Louie Orr Syracuse
Roosevelt Bouie Syracuse
Danny Schayes Syracuse
Isiah Thomas Indiana
Landon Turner Indiana
Randy Breuer Minn
Clark Kellogg OSU
Granville Waiters OSU
Sr
Herb Williams OSU
Tony Campbell OSU
Derek Harper Ill
Gene Banks Duke
Grad
Dale Ellis Tenn
Derek Smith Louisville (7 future NBA players on that squad)
Rodney McCray Louisville
Kevin Willis MSU
Brad Sellers Wisc
Uwe Blab Indiana
Kevin Duckworth E. Ill
Ron Anderson Fresno St
Ron Harper Miami
Roy Tarpley Michigan
;)
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Yeah. The B1G was very good in JJ’s time, but Ransey played in possibly the peak era of the league. I cut my teeth on that college basketball era so I remember all of those players. I went through the Purdue schedules in the Ransey timeframe as well and I found additional great college players you didn’t list. These college fans don’t understand how good we had it back then when 95% of the players stayed all four years and the handful that went pro early were generally three years, though I believe Isaiah and Magic left after two.
 
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Yeah. The B1G was very good in JJ’s time, but Ransey played in possibly the peak era of the league. I cut my teeth on that college basketball era so I remember all of those players. I went through the Purdue schedules in the Ransey timeframe as well and I found additional great college players you didn’t list. These college fans don’t understand how good we had it back then when 95% of the players stayed all four years and the handful that went pro early were generally three years, though I believe Isaiah and Magic left after two.
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There's this talk of Painter finding all these 7fters like it's needle in haystack. I went back and looked at those rosters in that era. I recall one of the B10 teams had three but can't place the team. I recall Purdue having two and a 6'11". I was sitting in the shelves (about as remote a part you can find) at the libary and got passed bu this huge shadow. Joe Barry Carrol. He practically lived there. A real brainiac. Minn similar height McCale and Randy Brewer on the same team with another near 7 foot. Dougherty's NC team had him and three just shy.

People be skrinken.

Painter probably owns some record: he's broken two 7 foot players this year. 7'3" Berg and 7'4" Jacobson. Has to settle for a 6'11".
 
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