Ohio State Basketball Official Thread

• wildcats20

  

  Mitchell has been cleared. Eligible to play tomorrow.
• Heretic

  

  wildcats20;1770279 wrote:Mitchell has been cleared. Eligible to play tomorrow.

  Wish the fucks in the NCAA could have done that earlier, so he could have gotten PT against their non-conference slate. Question: Why was in in limbo for so long? I've never really read anything explaining his ineligibility and why it lasted as long as it did and I at least made one half-assed Google search!
• FatHobbit

  

  Heretic;1770212 wrote: Because, when a team is as subpar compared to any other year under Matta as they are this year and you're a highly-regarded freshman who isn't getting much PT, that's on you.

  Pretty much this
• FatHobbit

  

  Heretic;1770014 wrote: Just makes me respect Diebler more. He wasn't particularly good when he came to Ohio State, but he stuck it out and worked to improve and became a stud shooting the ball who could at least play passable defense.

  Diebler definitely worked hard and improved every year
• Classyposter58

  

  Nice to see a game on Saturday at least here. It's a bunch of bologna that OSU almost never gets home Saturday games anymore
• wildcats20

  

  Classyposter58;1770332 wrote:Nice to see a game on Saturday at least here. It's a bunch of bologna that OSU almost never gets home Saturday games anymore

  They aren't going to play home games on Saturday during football season.
• Classyposter58

  

  wildcats20;1770337 wrote:They aren't going to play home games on Saturday during football season.

  
  Ha duh. But currently they only have 5 possible Saturday games with two being tossups and only one being at home against Iowa. The last 3 years Ohio State has had almost no Saturday home games at all which just sucks. Crowds are so much livelier on a Saturday than a Sunday afternoon
• slingshot4ever

  Up by 10 early on against Kentucky
• wildcats20

  

  Playing with a TON of confidence. Defense looks great too.
• Laley23

  

  Wrong thread...
• wildcats20

  

  Huge 3 for the Bucks going into half after giving away most of the lead.
• FatHobbit

  

  Ha! Where did this come from?
• Heretic

  

  Gotta keep it up for seven more minutes. Easily their best game no matter what, so it'd be heartbreaking to let Kentucky get back.
• wildcats20

  

  Harris has been so good today. Runs the team better than Lyle.
• sportchampps

  This is crazy
• Heretic

  

  Damn, what a win! Almost completely inexplicable, but awesome as hell to watch!
• Midstate01

  

  YESSSSSSSS
• The Answer

  What a great win! Can't believe they pulled that off. When it got down to 3 I thought for sure UK was going to take it. Murray was on fire. Huge win!
• GOONx19

  

  I missed the game, but congrats to OSU. This game should mean something in March, barring a meltdown from UK.
• Midstate01

  

  Lol you didn't miss the game. Stop it.
• Midstate01

  

  I'm kidding fyi, I did too. On the road driving in new Mexico.
• Ironman92

  

  UT Arlington and Louisiana Tech
  
  Well, at least they are improving
• Heretic

  

  I have to give them some credit last night. They shot like shit and committed 16 turnovers, but still beat Mercer (makes the tournament reasonably often) by 20 and pretty much dominated the second half.
• FatHobbit

  

  Heretic;1771126 wrote:I have to give them some credit last night. They shot like shit and committed 16 turnovers, but still beat Mercer (makes the tournament reasonably often) by 20 and pretty much dominated the second half.

  I think Matta is a pretty good coach. (That may be a huge understatement) If he can get this team to the tournament after the way they started I will be very very impressed.
• Heretic

  

  FatHobbit;1771132 wrote:I think Matta is a pretty good coach. (That may be a huge understatement) If he can get this team to the tournament after the way they started I will be very very impressed.

  I can see it happening if they keep improving as a team. Considering they beat Kentucky and played right with Virginia, the talent is there, but I think, as with a lot of young teams, the effort hasn't been there game-in and game-out. That's what impressed me about the Mercer game -- they were struggling a lot skill-wise, but in the second half, really put things together effort-wise and were able to win going away.
  
  If they can take care of business in the B1G against other teams who had mediocre/blah non-conference seasons and at least get 2 or so wins in their five games with the ranked teams (MSU, Maryland, Purdue), they'll be in pretty good shape, I think.