Nebraska 40, #7 Ohio State 71 (Final) - Page 4 - ScarletBuckeye

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-03-2012, 11:21 PM

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Buckeyes Give Huskers Rude Big Ten Welcome.................

SuperBuckFan08 · 01-03-2012, 11:44 PM

Thank you 30+ point win!

PHATBUCK13 · 01-04-2012, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by OSUBasketballJunkie

I thought Buford played horrible once again............bad shots, turnovers.............we need him to start playing like a senior or it will be a short March...........

Your right on.

Who would've thought coming into the season that Deshaun Thomas would be more consistent than Buford this season?

I like where we're at now though. The pieces are starting to fall into place and the players roles are being defined.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Scott start getting a few of Sibert's minutes and Amir possibly getting a bigger chunk of the big's mins. Both are improving throughout the season.

PHATBUCK13 · 01-04-2012, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by SuperBuckFan08

Thank you 30+ point win!

Yea, that prop bet paid out over 700K!!!!

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-04-2012, 07:53 PM

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Bucks bounce back against Nebraska....................

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-04-2012, 09:04 PM

ozone.net

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Men's Basketball
Buckeyes bounce back, welcome Nebraska to Big Ten with 71-40 blowout
By Ben Axelrod

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If any members of the No. 6 Ohio State men’s basketball team (14-2, 2-1) were still thinking about the Buckeyes’ New Year’s Eve loss to Indiana, it wasn’t evident on Tuesday. Jared Sullinger scored 19 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Deshaun Thomas added in 15 points as the Buckeyes opened up 2012 with a 71-40 blowout win over Nebraska (8-6, 0-3).

Ohio State dominated from start to finish, opening up the first 11 minutes of the game with a 17-4 advantage and then never looked back. The Cornhuskers picked up their offense throughout the remainder of the first half, but just didn’t have the defense to hang with the Buckeyes, who entered intermission with a 44-20 lead after Sullinger hit a 3-point shot off of a broken inbounds play with five seconds remaining in the half.

“What we planned on doing was to have everybody come to me and then Will (Buford) was supposed to be open,” Sullinger said.

“But unfortunately, everybody went to Will and I was open. So I just shot the ball and it went in. Thanks to Will for being such a great offensive threat.”

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-04-2012, 10:29 PM

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Bucks Bounce Back, Blast Nebraska.............

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-04-2012, 10:38 PM

Dispatch

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Men's basketball: Ohio State makes night a long one for Nebraska

Buckeyes eliminate defensive breakdowns from Indiana loss

By Bob Baptist
The Columbus Dispatch
Wednesday January 4, 2012 5:19 AM

For a lot of Ohio State fans, the sky fell before the ball did on New Year’s Eve.

The Buckeyes men’s basketball team, ranked No. 2 and an overwhelming favorite to win the Big Ten championship for the fifth time in seven years, lost at Indiana in its second game of the conference season, and Chicken Little showed up uninvited to many parties.

The way coach Thad Matta saw it, better now than later.

“I told our guys that last year I think we learned a great lesson in the Kentucky game,” he said of the NCAA Tournament loss, “but the season was over. Do we have an ability to learn a lesson here in the end of December and continue to move forward?”

They did last night.

The Buckeyes, now ranked sixth, started their new year by getting back in the victory column with a 71-40 rout of Nebraska at Value City Arena.

“That game the other night, I thought for the first 10 minutes we were playing as well as we’ve played all season,” Matta said.” But the lesson you learn there is you’ve got to play through adversity, and we didn’t do a good enough job doing that.”

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