By BOB FINNAN (MorningJournal.com) — AKRON - Jared Sullinger didn’t want to listen to all the noise.

The Ohio State University sophomore-to-be didn’t want to pay attention to what the experts had to say.

He wanted to focus in on what his gut was telling him, and that was to pull out of the 2011 NBA draft and return to the Buckeyes.

Sullinger, 19, had some unfinished business at Ohio State, which finished 32-2 during his freshman year in 2010-11.

“I wanted to be a kid,” he said on Wednesday at the LeBron James Skills Academy at the University of Akron. “I wanted to play basketball. Obviously, there is an NBA lockout. But that had no influence on my decision.

“I wanted to live college life. You only get to live life once. I can’t go back to college and be a college athlete if I go to the pros. I just decided to wait.”

Scouts thought he would be a top…..

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