By: Troy Current (BleacherReport.com) -- The Ohio State Buckeyes Men's Basketball team has had a very successful season thus far but will look to extend their season Friday March 26th as they take on the Tennessee Volunteers in a Sweet 16 match-up in St. Louis. In order for the Buckeyes to get to the Elite 8, Evan Turner, one of the front runners for National Player of the Year, will have to step up his game and get others involved to try to subdue the pressure oriented defense of the ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- COLUMBUS -- The mission was to make Thad Matta's players tougher, and Dave Richardson's military training, as well as his success as a power lifter and decades in college strength and conditioning, made his acceptance of the goal very clear. "Coach, I know what toughness is," Richardson said. So through a grueling summer of off-season training, his players running through a sandpit, around an obstacle course and up the steps of Ohio Stadium, Richardson pushed the Ohio State ... Read More

By: By Blake Oestriecher (TigerWeekly.com) -- Of the 4.8 million people who filled out brackets on ESPN's NCAA Tournament Challenge, zero were perfect after the first round. It's really a testament to the balance in this year's tournament. There are no truly great teams in the field, but plenty of really good ones and even more that have flown under the radar on the way to setting up a Sweet 16 that could be a classic. Midwest: Tennessee vs. Ohio St. - In Tennessee's third Sweet ... Read More

From: Sports Illustrated via AP -- COLUMBUS - It's 10 o'clock on a Monday night in mid-March, the early NIT games are over and even avid basketball fans across the country are about to call it a day. That's when Ohio State coach Thad Matta gets around to answering his stack of phone messages. "I'm just sitting down to dinner with my family,'' he says. Some 14 hours into what is a day off for his players, Matta is bone tired yet exhilarated. He ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Looking back at David Lighty and ahead to Tennessee: * Thad Matta can't say how to buy prescription drugs without a prescription enough good things about David Lighty. He may wind up as one of Matta's all-time favorites. He is still peeved that Lighty wasn't on the Big Ten's All-Defensive team, and he talked about what a great job Lighty did Sunday guarding bigger Georgia Tech players after Ohio State's 75-66 win. "He's the best defender in ... Read More

By: Yannis Koutroupis (HoopsWorld.com) -- Ohio State came into the season without much fanfare, expected to duke it out with the like of Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois for third place in the Big Ten, behind Michigan State and Purdue. Thanks, in large part, to the spectacular play of Evan Turner, Ohio State finished the season tied for first. And Turner was just getting started. In the conference tournament and in Sunday's second round win over Georgia ... Read More

By: AP via ESPN.com -- MILWAUKEE -- Nobody got a bigger boost than Ohio State when mighty Kansas tumbled and the Midwest Regional suddenly went up for grabs. No way, then, that Evan Turner was going to have another bad game. Turner shook off one of the worst shooting nights of his career by coming within an assist and a rebound buying prescription drugs online of his third triple-double of the season, lifting Ohio State to a 75-66 victory over sloppy Georgia Tech on ... Read More

By: Marlen Garcia (USAToday.com) -- MILWAUKEE -- Evan Turner had a special guest attend Ohio State's first-round game against UC-Santa Barbara on Friday night. Eleven-year-old Jack Zeidler of Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, came with his family to cheer on Turner, who was an inspiration for Zeidler during the boy's recovery from four broken vertebrae suffered during a game of tackle football with friends. Zeidler sustained the injury in late October. In early December, Turner suffered transverse process fractures of two vertebrae and missed six ... Read More

From: MercuryNew.com via AP -- MILWAUKEE—Evan Turner took a back seat to slick shooter Jon Diebler and big forward Dallas Lauderdale, and Ohio State outlasted persistent UC Santa Barbara 68-51 in the first buy drugs round of the NCAA tournament Friday night. Diebler scored 23 points and Lauderdale blocked a career-high eight shots and grabbed 12 rebounds for the second-seeded Buckeyes (28-7), who won without much offense from their top player. Turner was held to nine points while going 2 of 13 from ... Read More

By: Paul M. Banks (NotQualifiedToComment.com) -- INDIANAPOLIS- Big Ten player of the year, and likely national player of the year Evan Turner has become quite the polarizing figure this weekend. The Ohio State swing-man made magical memories for OSU fans on his way to becoming Big Ten tournament MVP. But he also angered many partisans of the teams who were vanquished by the Ohio State Buckeyes; en route to their tournament championship. If he’s on your side- you ... Read More