From: CBSSports.com --  LINCOLN, Neb. -- Ohio State felt right at home in this road game. William Buford scored 15 points, Jared Sullinger and Deshaun Thomas had 14 apiece, and the sixth-ranked Buckeyes blew out Nebraska for the second time this month with a 79-45 victory Saturday night. The Buckeyes (17-3, 5-3) swept their games against Nebraska by a combined 65 points and moved ... Read More

From: TheLantern.com -- Ohio State students pay $82 per quarter as a part of a required Recreation Sports fee, and some student organizations want to know exactly where that nearly $14 million is going. More than three months after a line-item budget was requested, the university cannot explicitly say where these student dollars are going and a top OSU official apologized for the lack of transparency. Nick Messenger, president of Undergraduate Student Government, said required student fees are intended ... Read More

By Eric Prisbell (WashingtonPost.com) --The Big Ten is the nation’s strongest conference this season. It may also be the nation’s most balanced. Aside from Nebraska and Penn State, every other team in the 12-team league is capable of an upset or two. Among the noteworthy results this weekend: Northwestern beating Michigan State; Iowa blasting Michigan and Ohio State avenging an earlier loss to resurgent Indiana. There certainly are many Big Ten haters out there. But the league is the nation’s ... Read More

According to ESPN's Jared Shanker, Ohio State coach Urban Meyerhas flipped yet another commitment. Taylor Decker, a Three-star offensive tackle from Vandalia, Ohio's Butler,  confirmed to ESPN.com via text message that he had decommitted from Notre Dame and had committed t the Buckeyes on Sunday on official visit to Columbus. Decker is the third commit to switch allegiances since Meyer was named the Buckeyes' coach in late December. Defensive linemen Se'Von Pittman and Tommy Schutt decommitted from Michigan State and Penn State, respectively, and ... Read More

Rob McCurdy (lancastereaglegazette.com) -- COLUMBUS -- The Buckeyes slipped on a banana peel at Indiana, and before the end of the regular season there are likely to be more pratfalls. It comes with the growing pains of a young team. Ohio State coach Thad Matta knows this. Talent and depth only go so far, especially in a Big Ten that has four other teams ranked in the Top 25 (Michigan State, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin) and two more lurking (Purdue ... Read More

From: Cincinnati.com -- Moeller senior WR Monty Madaris is receiving interest again from Ohio State, according to Moeller coach John Rodenberg. Madaris has taken official visits to UC and Michigan State and plans to visit Michigan the weekend of Jan. 13. He also plans to visit Kentucky sometime this month. Madaris said Dec. 3 he had been speaking with Ohio State’s coaches and that the Buckeyes were on a list he was considering. Rodenberg said Dec. 12 Ohio State was full at ... Read More

By: Scott Dochterman (TheGazette.com) -- Big Ten football schedules had slick manueverability when the league carried an unwieldy number of 11 schools. Each football program played two permanent rivals annually and faced the other league opponents six times over an eight-year period. That scheduling procedure worked until it got in the way of progress. In June 2010, the Big Ten voted to unanimously add Nebraska as its 12th member. In football terms that meant two divisions and a new scheduling ... Read More

By Alex Bozich (InsideTheHall.com) -- Following a tough loss on Wednesday at Michigan State, Indiana returns to Assembly Hall for a showdown with No. 2 Ohio State. The game will be shown on ESPN2 and broadcast on the IU radio network (Sirius 128/XM 191): For the second (and most likely last) time this season, the Hoosiers will take Branch McCracken floor as underdogs on Saturday evening. Ohio State has overtaken Michigan State as the Big Ten’s top program with four regular season ... Read More

By Jeffrey Bathe (BleacherReport.com) -- The Big Ten got 10 bowl bids this season, matching the most ever received by a conference in one season. Unfortunately, like the Big East last March Madness, more bids does not mean that the conference will thrive. While having the most bids is an impressive feat, there are four reasons why the conference ended up with the most embarrassing bowl season on record.   Bottom Half of the Conference In a bowl era where ... Read More

By: Henry Brown (BleacherReport.com) -- It has been 12 years since the Big Ten conference has had anyone sit atop the final rankings in college basketball. Not since the 1999-2000 season has a member of the nation's oldest intercollegiate conference won a national title. That team was Michigan State. Since then, the basketball power conference has taken a backseat as the ACC, SEC, Big East and Big 12 have all won national titles. However, the Big Ten may finally be back. Last weekend, Big Ten ... Read More