By Bradley Hartsell via easttennessean.com --  After watching Ohio State hold off Syracuse, I couldn’t help but notice just how terrific Jared Sullinger is. I don’t watch much college basketball mainly because I don’t enjoy watching 18-year-olds drain a way-too-long 35-second shot clock, whip the ball around the perimeter and jack 3-pointers without ever getting the ball inside the arc. But when I do watch, I’m always interested in watching the top guys, the ones who’ll be the next crop of young players. Sullinger ... Read More

By: AP via greenfieldreporter.com --  NEW ORLEANS — The season was spiraling away, the players didn't seem to care and Thad Matta had had enough. So, as he watched his team stumble lackadaisically through practice on the eve of a big game, the Ohio State coach snapped. Stop, day's over, head home, he told them. Not so fast, coach. Led by William Buford, the team's lone senior, the Buckeyes pushed back, decided to finish practice on their own. "I didn't let us leave," Buford said Thursday. ... Read More

By: Rob Kunz via 10tv.com -- Ask any Ohio State basketball fan about the “golden era” of OSU hoops, and you’ll get a near unanimous answer…the teams coached by Fred Taylor that went to three straight NCAA championship games, and four Final Fours in the span on nine seasons. There’s really no argument to be made. Well, maybe there should be. In eight seasons at Ohio State, Thad Matta’s Buckeyes have some numbers that stack up quite favorably with ... Read More

By: AP via DaytonDailyNews.com --   COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State opened spring football practice on Wednesday as the Buckeyes' basketball team prepared for its second trip to the Final Four in the last six years. Perfect symmetry there. The basketball team is usually playing in the shadow of goal posts on the Ohio State campus. Football gets most of the attention, even when it's bad. Coach Urban Meyer was brought in to resurrect the program from a scandal that resulted in a bowl ban ... Read More

By Mike Shiekman via BleacheReport.com -- The Ohio State Buckeyes are a matchup nightmare for the Kansas Jayhawks. Jared Sullinger and Deshaun Thomas will be the undoing of Thomas Robinson and Co. in their Final Four matchup. Kansas has had its struggles in this NCAA tournament as early as the first weekend. They put all of the talk to rest in beating North Carolina by double-digits on Sunday. Nevertheless, Ohio State will prove Kansas’s triumph was fluky with a combination of their top-10 ... Read More

By Randy Covitz via bostonherald.com -- Ohio State All-American forward Jared Sullinger still can’t forgive himself. And he still can’t help from wondering: What if he had not missed the Buckeyes’ game at Kansas? Sullinger missed the then-No. 2 Buckeyes’ nationally televised showdown at Kansas on Dec. 10 because of back spasms, and he watched helplessly from the bench as the Jayhawks won, 78-67, and handed Ohio State its first loss of the season. With the two teams set to meet in a rematch in ... Read More

From: Cleveland.com -- Cleveland, Ohio -- Welcome to today's edition of Starting Blocks TV, hosted by Chuck Yarborough and Branson Wright. The Ohio State Buckeyes are headed to the Final Four in New Orleans, where they will play Kansas on Saturday. Which team wins that game Saturday night, and by how many points? That's the question in today's Starting Blocks poll. Today's guest on SBTV is Plain Dealer Ohio State reporter Doug Lesmerises, who says he thinks the Buckeyes....... READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ... Read More

By: Rick Chandler via nbcsports.com -- John Chubb, better known to Ohio State fans as Buck-I-Guy, says he’s lucky to be alive following a run-in with a turkey on March 17. Chubb, who is known for his flamboyant costume which he wears at Buckeye sporting events, was returning from Ohio State’s NCAA tournament men’s basketball game with Gonzaga with a friend, Lonnie Poindexter, when a large bird crashed through the windshield and caused his car to crash. Luckily, Poindexter is a firefighter, and ... Read More

By Katie Higgins via TheLantern.com --He is your not-so-typical fourth-year in engineering at Ohio State. If you watched his YouTube channel, you would never guess he is a teaching assistant, and you definitely wouldn’t think he’s from a small town in Ohio. In his limited free time, Calvin Scruby works to promote his potential career as a rapper. “To do the things that I do and to be a rapper is just not right,” Scruby said. “I keep tabs on my ... Read More

By: Kevin McCauley via sbnation.com -- When the Ohio State Buckeyes met the Kansas Jayhawks earlier in the season, they didn't fare well. Kansas shot a spectacular 58 percent from the floor in a 78-67 win. Unlike the Final Four meeting between the two teams, that game was at Allen Fieldhouse, not at a neutral site. Also unlike that game, Ohio State will have all of their key players. Three players in particular will be in the spotlight for ... Read More