Monthly Archives: February 2013

Buckeye Honors

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Even though it’s been a rough season for the Buckeyes, it’s still been one for the record books for the Junior duo of Deshaun Thomas and Aaron Craft. Both players played in their 100th career game as a Buckeye in last weeks’ victory against Northwestern.

In their 100 games on the court, the Buckeyes are a stellar 83-17 overall, with a 36-11 record in Big Ten play.

As far as individual success is concerned, both Craft and Thomas are making their way into the Big Ten and Ohio State record books, respectively.

Craft is currently 13 steals shy of moving to the Top 7 in all-time steals in Big Ten history. With 219 steals under his belt already, he is currently 8th behind Dee Brown (Illinois, 2003-2006).

With 6 more rebounds, Thomas will be the 24th player in Ohio State history to score 1,000 points and pull down 500 rebounds in a career as a Buckeye. With his 18 point performance last week against Wisconsin, Thomas also became the 18th player in Buckeye history to score 500 points in a season multiple times (2).

 

Aaron’s Expectations

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At 13th in the country, with a 7-4 record in the B1G Ten, it’s clear to see that Ohio State is under-performing this season. Coming into the season, there was a lot of hype surrounding the return of Aaron Craft and Deshaun Thomas.

On Wednesday, Craft was interviewed with Head Coach Thad Matta about the focus of the rest of the season and the expectations for Ohio State basketball.

 

 

Really B1G Ten

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If you had told me before the season that Ohio State, at this point, would be 17-6 and ranked 13th in the country, I’d have a heart attack from laughing so hard.

There’s no possible way this team could be a whopping 7-4 in the B1G Ten! With Aaron Craft’s lock-down defense and Deshaun Thomas’ knock-down shooting, the Buckeye’s should be the no. 1 team in the country!

But nobody, including me, saw what the B1G Ten conference was going to be like.

At this point, forget Ohio State. Had you told me that there would be five teams in the Top 25 (1 Indiana, 4 Michigan, 8 Michigan State, 13 Ohio State, 20 Wisconsin) with Minnesota, yes, MINNESOTA, getting votes to be in the Top 25, I would have…honestly…I don’t know what I would’ve done.

The conference has never, EVER been this good before! The Big East was this good in its prime (R.I.P.) and the ACC was amazing when North Carolina used to be a legitimate program (key words: used to). But the B1G Ten? Never.

This is what’s so great about college basketball. The fact that any team, no matter how big, or how well known, can go out and make a run and compete with anybody. Anytime. Anywhere.

It sucks that B1G Ten teams are going to continue to beat each other up, it really does. But, come tournament time, we’re all in for quite a treat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ4K2I8eC8Y

Urban Meyer talks about National Signing Day

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Thursday afternoon, Ohio State Head Coach Urban Meyer called in and joined The Dan Patrick Show to talk about college football’s National Signing Day.

While watching, notice how Meyer never, ever, says the name M*ch*gan.

It’s refreshing to see a coach that loves and cares about the team as much as Coach Meyer does. As I stated in my last post, it’s about more than just football to Meyer, and that’s what makes him such a great fit to the program.

To me, the highlight of the video was when Meyer talked about how kids need to meet great the expectations of The Ohio State University, seeing as the school isn’t an easy institution to get in to. His line about wanting the young men to succeed just proves how much of a blessing Meyer truly is to the program.

More than Football

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In today’s sporting world, it’s all about winning. You can’t go a year without hearing about at least one recruiting violation. (Insert joke about Jim Tressel here).

However, among the hustle and bustle of college football’s National Signing Day yesterday, a light of hope for the Ohio State program was seen after Head Coach Urban Meyer’s press conference.

What this video shows is that this job is more than just football to Meyer. He cares about the players and wants to see them succeed. After an amazing 12-0, undefeated season last year, Meyer is still extremely motivated to see his Buckeye’s succeed.

“We’re going to develop as hard as we ever have,” Meyer said to reporters yesterday.

So now I have one question…is it fall yet?

Ohio State-Michigan, Round 2

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Tuesday night the Buckeyes take on rival Michigan for the second time this season.

In their first match-up, the Buckeyes knocked off the undefeated Wolverines at home.

Seth Greenberg goes to the game tape and does a great job breaking down the game, check out the video here!

After losing to Indiana on Saturday, you can bet that Michigan will be ready for get back on the right track on Tuesday night. As if playing another top ten team wasn’t enough motivation, the fact that Michigan has the opportunity to get revenge on the rival Buckeyes makes this game even bigger for Ohio State.

The backcourt match-up between Michigan’s Trey Burke and Ohio State’s Aaron Craft might be the most exciting one-on-one battle you see all year. Burke’s offensive explosion and Craft’s dominate defense are enough to make any true college basketball fan excited for the game, let alone its the third versus the tenth best team in the nation.

If Craft can keep tabs on Burke, and Ohio State Forward Deshaun Thomas can knock down jumpers early, the Buckeyes have a good shot at knocking off The State Up North for a second time this season.