Buckeyes Roll In NCAA Tournament Opener
Deshaun Thomas scored a game-high 24 points while Sam Thompson had a career-high 20 as Ohio State rolled to a 95-70 victory over Iona in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Lenzelle Smith Jr. and Evan Ravenel also scored in double figures while Shannon Scott tied a career-high with 10 assists.
Video: Ravenel, Scott on Title
Check out what Ohio State's Evan Ravenel and Shannon Scott had to say to the media post-game after Sunday's Championship performance.
Video: Ravenel On Advancing
Ohio State senior forward Evan Ravenel spoke with the media after Friday's win over Nebraska. Check out what he had to say in this video.
Despite loss, Illini looking ahead to postseason
Despite losing three of its last four games, Illinois is looking forward to playing close to home in this week's Big Ten tournament at United Center in Chicago.
Even a 68-55 loss at No. 14 Ohio State on Sunday didn't dampen the expectation of playing for keeps in front of a lot of friendly faces.
''It's fun. It's closer to home for many of us,''...
Bucks still in race for Big Ten championship
The Big Ten championship, seeding for next week's Big Ten tournament and seeding for the bigger tournament the following week are still to be determined.
There are only three things Ohio State can do in sorting things out: Win, watch and wonder
1. Win
Sunday at 12:30 p.m., the Buckeyes host Illinois in a game Ohio State needs to clinch a top four finish in the Big Ten and the...
Illinois-Ohio St. Preview
The Buckeyes won't take the bait.
Yes, they know a home win over Illinois on Sunday afternoon coupled with an Indiana loss later in the day at Michigan would leave them in a multi-team tie for the Big Ten championship.
But they refuse to let anyone think they're getting ahead of themselves by saying they'll be rooting for the archrival Wolverines. Instead, the party...
Finally, A Signature Win.
A big win for Ohio State (image courtesy of USA Today.)
We had to wait until the final week of the season but the Buckeyes finally have a signature road win.
Ohio State went into Assembly Hall in Bloomington and pushed Indiana around 67-58. The win gives, Thad Matta’s Buckeyes, a signature road win. We have been waiting for that since a November evening at Cameron Indoor Stadium...
Craft Leads Buckeyes In Win Over Sparty
In a game that I couldn’t necessarily see, as I was being directly blocked by the backside of the basket, Ohio State got a much needed win against a great Michigan State basketball team. From the get-go, it was clear that the “good version” of the Buckeyes were out to play. They were hustling and calm, two things that Ohio State has seemed to lack in bad losses. Although Ohio...
Buckeyes Force 24 Turnovers, Whack The Gophers
This year’s Buckeye team was always going to have an offense that trailed the defense. The defense has been on an elite level among the college ranks for the last couple years, and they showed exactly why last night. The 18th-ranked Ohio State’s defense forced 24 turnovers and held Minnesota to under 30% shooting as they allowed just nine points in a stretch of 15 minutes in...
Buckeyes Survive Late Press From Iowa
Fresh off their home victory against the previously undefeated in-conference Wisconsin as well as close losses to Indiana and Michigan State earlier in the season, the Iowa Hawkeyes were looking to draw more Big Ten blood in Columbus to show they belong in the discussion of Big Ten contention. They nearly did so behind a flurry of offensive rebounding and a very effective fullcourt...
Hawkeyes trail big, come back, fall short, 72-63
With three freshmen in the starting lineup, every game's a learning experience for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
It might not have been a new lesson Tuesday night, but that made it no less painful.
The Hawkeyes fell behind No. 14 Ohio State by 24 points with under 13 minutes left, then fought back to make the Buckeyes nervous before they settled for a 72-63 victory.
''It shows...
Spartan Jump Shots, Buckeye Edition: Ohio State vs. Michigan State Preview
With the light part of their Big Ten schedule behind them and several stiff challenges awaiting, we’ll soon find out just what the Michigan State Spartans are made of in 2013. After departing Happy Valley with a relatively painless win (other than for a hotel wall), the Spartans return home for a big date with the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Recently, Ohio State punched the Michigan Wolverines...
Buckeyes' 56-53 win over Michigan extra sweet
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State's win over Michigan Sunday ended Michigan's 16-0 start.
It also kept the Wolverines from being No. 1 in the new national polls released Monday.
Those are subplots to what was a very intense, very important game in what's going to be grueling Big Ten race. But every Ohio State player knew that Michigan came into the game as the nation's...
Buckeyes Beat Boilermakers
After disturbing losses to Illinois, Kansas, and Duke, Ohio State may have had their statement game of the season. Finally, the Buckeyes showed up in West Lafayette, Indiana and proved that they can play a little basketball.
In Thad Matta’s 100th win as the coach at Ohio State, the Buckeyes beat the Purdue Boilermakers 74-64.
Purdue isn’t much of a team this season, especially...
Ohio State falls to Illinois in blowout, 74-55
Deshaun Thomas, Evan Ravenel and Aaron Craft headed to the Ohio State bench for good Saturday with just under 2 minutes to play. Their faces dripped with sweat and, as each tried to catch his breath, they looked beaten.
They were. Badly.
Thad Matta, the coach of the eighth-ranked Buckeyes, was pulling the heart of his lineup from the game, throwing in the towel in a 74-55 loss...
Williams Hopes To Get Past Mental Struggles
Ohio State center Amir Williams seems to boast the physical tools needed to be the Buckeyes' next dominant force in the paint. However, the 6-11, 250-pound sophomore has remained behind Evan Ravenel on the depth chart despite coming into this season as the favorite to be OSU's starting big man. Williams feels as if his mental struggles could be the reason for that.
No. 7 Buckeyes sprint to 90-72 win over Asheville
Sam Thompson scored a career-high 18 points and No. 7 Ohio State made the most of an opportunity to get out and run to beat UNC Asheville 90-72 on Saturday.
Deshaun Thomas had 17 points, Lenzelle Smith Jr. 16 and Evan Ravenel tied a career best with 12 points in the first half for the Buckeyes (8-1), who tuned up for a big showdown next Saturday against No. 9 Kansas with the fourth...
No. 7 Buckeyes sprint to win vs. UNC-Asheville
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Sam Thompson scored a career-high 18 points and No. 7 Ohio State made the most of an opportunity to get out and run to beat UNC Asheville 90-72 on Saturday.
Deshaun Thomas had 17 points, Lenzelle Smith Jr. 16 and Evan Ravenel tied a career best with 12 points in the first half for the Buckeyes (8-1), who tuned up for a big showdown next Saturday against No...
Buckeyes look to sharpen skills vs. UNC-A
While Ohio State's offense continues to run through its talented trio of juniors, steady production from its lone senior could make coach Thad Matta's team all the more formidable.
Evan Ravenel looks to build on arguably his best effort of the season Saturday as the No. 7 Buckeyes host UNC Asheville.
Leading the way for Ohio State (7-1) are juniors Deshaun Thomas, Lenzelle...
UNC Asheville-Ohio St. Preview
While Ohio State's offense continues to run through its talented trio of juniors, steady production from its lone senior could make coach Thad Matta's team all the more formidable.
Evan Ravenel looks to build on arguably his best effort of the season Saturday as the No. 7 Buckeyes host UNC Asheville.
Leading the way for Ohio State (7-1) are juniors Deshaun Thomas, Lenzelle...
Ohio State cruises past Savannah State
Deshaun Thomas scored all but one of his 22 points in the first half and No. 7 Ohio State showed its firepower inside and out in beating Savannah State 85-45 on Wednesday night.
LaQuinton Ross added 13 points, Shannon Scott had 12 and Evan Ravenel 11 for the Buckeyes (7-1), who are three games into an eight-game homestand that will carry them all the way through the Big Ten opener...
Box Score: (4) Ohio State 77, Washington 66
The Buckeyes finished their weekend in Connecticut for the Basketball Hall of Fame Tipoff as winners of the event. With wins against Rhode Island yesterday and today against Washington, Deshaun Thomas tied his career-high with 31 points as the Bucks beat the Huskies 77-66. Thomas poured 21 of those in during a red-hot first half as the Huskies had no answer on the perimeter for the...
Buckeyes add Loving, Williams to fold
Ohio State has signed Marc Loving of Toledo (Ohio) St. John and Kameron ''Kam'' Williams from Mount St. Joseph's High School in Baltimore to national letters of intent for the 2013-14 season.
Loving, a 6-foot-8-inch, 215-pound forward, was the 2012 Associated Press Division I co-player of the year in the state and preceded his first-team big-school all-state...
Buckeyes add recruits Loving, Williams to fold
Ohio State has signed Marc Loving of Toledo (Ohio) St. John and Kameron ''Kam'' Williams from Mount St. Joseph's High School in Baltimore to national letters of intent for the 2013-14 season.
Loving, a 6-foot-8-inch, 215-pound forward, was the 2012 Associated Press Division I co-player of the year in the state and preceded his first-team big-school all-state...
Thomas scores 25 to lead No. 4 Ohio State, 83-71
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Preseason All-America Deshaun Thomas scored 25 points to lead No. 4 Ohio State past Walsh 83-71 in an exhibition game on Tuesday night.
LaQuinton Ross, a sophomore who started his first collegiate game, added 13 points. Sam Thompson and Evan Ravenel both had 11 points for the Buckeyes, who went 31-8 last season and reached the Final Four.
Reserve Jeff Copeland...
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