Wisconsin & Ohio St Game

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Just starting to watch the top 20 teams as we build up to March Madness, which is one of my favorite times of year. I have been watching alot of Duke games during the year, and I am not that impressed that they can repeat. They lack that big man to clog up the middle but they always play hard defense and as a team on offense, so we will have to see. I was impressed how they came back and beat North Carolina last week in Carmeron.

I tell you what the Wisconsin farm boys.
They are very tough to play in that arena and now are 6-0 against Ohio St there. Sometimes the better team does not win and this was one of them.

At half-time when Ohio St makes that 15 pt run I said to myself, Wiconsin is done, Ohio St pulls ahead and stays ahead now.

But to my surprise #14 Wisky played tough and hit the 3 pointers to silence the critics who said they couldnt do it and put a knife in Ohio Sts heart.

To me Sollinger is a crybaby and seems way too soft to control the destiny of a number one team winning it all. At least this year.

He was crying about fouls, hard drives, flopping, etc. When I see a player going directly to the ref and not letting the Coach handle that side of things, I have to wonder about ego, arrogance, and the Cutler sandy vagina tencency.

Sollinger is a strong presence in the paint at 6'7 and probably 250 but Whisky managed to stop him with shorter and less wight players.

Jordan Taylor for Whisky is the player of the game for me. Guy shoots lights out.

It was reported that Ohio St didnt get a shootaround because the Wisky womans hockey team was on the ice or something.

Not really sure how this affected them but they sure were cold at times with balls bouncing off the rims clanking off like rocks.

Ohio St when running on all cylinders makes shots with speed and you dont even realize they have scored again. They have alot of players off the bench and I really like the 6 man Creek or whatever his name is. The white guy transfer I think he is.

I also respect the defense of Ohio St as they are stong. But they ended up being weak contesting the long 3 poiinters raining down on their head.

Any team can succumb to that as you cant guard them at half court if they choose to shoot from out there and can hit them.

Lets face it, their gym and they shoot there all the time is a big advantage for Whisky.

Ohio St plays MSU at home next and then travel away to Purdue who will be looking to do what Whisky did to them.

I would think a blow out by an embarressed
Ohio St team would be in order.
 
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Jordan Taylor, the hero of Wisconsin's 71-67 dethroning of Ohio State, the last undefeated team left in Division I, and the man at the eye of a court-storming after scoring 27 points and dealing out seven assists against one turnover, once took a visit to Madison as a high-school sophomore, sat in assistant coach Greg Gard's office and asked a question:

"What do I have to do to play here?"

Taylor was then a lightly recruited point guard from St. Louis Park, Minn., who'd driven down to see a football game and hoped to make a positive impression on the Badgers' coaching staff. Gard was under the impression Taylor was merely asking about what he needed to do to play Division I basketball anywhere. The coach began to say to meet the standards of D-I point-guard play, Taylor would need to improve his shooting (he wasn't much of a marksman), his ball handling and his decision-making (which were just OK) -- at which point Taylor interrupted.

"Coach, you don't understand," he said. "What do I have to do to play here, at Wisconsin? I want to play at Wisconsin."

The Badgers had yet to offer Taylor a scholarship. The staff loved his personality -- they thought he was a soundly built leader who understood the big picture about being a college student and a point guard -- but they wanted to be sure his skill set would catch up with his moxie.

They mulled it over for the rest of Taylor's sophomore season at Benilde-St. Margaret's School. And the entire summer after that. Colleges weren't exactly banging down his doors -- he ended up as a three-star prospect -- and UW finally offered him in the fall of his junior year. There was little fanfare when he committed. Gard just said that he and coach Bo Ryan believed that if Taylor put in the work, he had a chance to be a good player.

We're always searching for turning points in games of this magnitude -- No. 1 Ohio State in its toughest road environment of the year, in a place where the 13th-ranked Badgers were 149-11 under Bo Ryan -- and usually those changes in momentum can be pinned on a dagger shot, a statement dunk, or a costly foul. Here, on Saturday, the game's first swing came on a mere substitution. Down 10-6 with 14:06 left in the first half, Buckeyes coach Thad Matta inserted his freshman point guard, Aaron Craft, into the lineup in place of senior power forward Dallas Lauderdale.

Taylor, who'd made clutch shots in an overtime win at Iowa on Wednesday, and scored 30 against Michigan State six days ago, appeared in control of the game early. He drilled a couple of jumpers -- a two and a three -- in the face of OSU's William Buford, and the Badgers, who came into the game with the most efficient offense in all of college basketball (at 1.22 points per possession), were off to a solid start, scoring 1.25 PPP on their first eight possessions.

Craft has gained a bit of a reputation during the Buckeyes' 11-0 run through the Big Ten. He has driven the likes of Illinois' Demetri McCamey, Purdue's E'Twaun Moore and Penn State's Talor Battle mad with his defense, and was second in the league in steals with 41. "Aaron is like the secret service," teammate Jared Sullinger said. "He could guard the President."

Craft proceeded to lock down Taylor, who missed his next two three-pointers, committed a turnover -- something that he only does an absurd 1.2 times per game in conference play -- and only helped the Badgers put up three points in their next eight trips down the floor. UW only scored 0.842 PPP the rest of the half. They stood around, they took bad shots with the clock winding down; in Taylor's words, they "stagnated." Craft was the catalyst in taking the Badgers out of their flow.

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these are two really good players come March Madness .
 

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Bo Ryan is the best college basketball coach in the country. I hate Wisconsin and he is the best. He doesn't get the to recruits as a UNC, Duke, or OSU. Bo Ryan does the most with the least. I wish Tubby could do that.
 

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In my opinion your wrong about Sullinger,he doesn't wine and cry to the officials,he simply states his point at the timeout period,he doesn't do it in a manner to upset the officials.When there is a call that goes against him he usually laughs it off very rarely if ever showing up the official....OSU also hadn't played for a week.
 

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In my opinion your wrong about Sullinger,he doesn't wine and cry to the officials,he simply states his point at the timeout period,he doesn't do it in a manner to upset the officials.When there is a call that goes against him he usually laughs it off very rarely if ever showing up the official....OSU also hadn't played for a week.

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seen it too much in the NBA and it starts a pattern of trying to intimidate officials.

Once was enough for me when he did it in this game.

We will see how he progesses

no way Ohio St wins the Nat champ game this year
 

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thinking Buckeyes will drop one or two more as this was a heartbreaker cause of the LEAD they displayed at a moment (15 points) and were RUN DOWN ... can't think of a tougher way to lose this
 
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seen it too much in the NBA and it starts a pattern of trying to intimidate officials.

Once was enough for me when he did it in this game.

We will see how he progesses

no way Ohio St wins the Nat champ game this year

They won't even be in the National championship game...On a side note Sullinger is only a freshmen and not with a huge backing so he can't intimidate officials at this stage,he simply states what is being done against him.He has great knowledge of the game and if you watch him with an open opinion you see a guy who is battling for position all the time and very few forced shots with a great understanding of when to swing the ball opposit side for open 3's.Only thing is he is undersized to play down low in NBA so he will stay at OSU and work on a face up jumper.That will make him a Top 5 pick next year.How about the battle for that rebound on the missed FT when he tipped it to himself and then stepped back for the fade away 3,that was an amazing individual play,(lucky on the rainbow 3)perhaps but none the less a great play for the time of the game.Didn't have time to try anything else but to heave the 3 and it went in...I'm just saying this kid has a great head on his shoulders and a high IQ for basketball.
 

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thinking Buckeyes will drop one or two more as this was a heartbreaker cause of the LEAD they displayed at a moment (15 points) and were RUN DOWN ... can't think of a tougher way to lose this

Yep they lose their next 1 vs Sparty.
 
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