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The Basketball purists would know better....but in the annuals of tOSU Badketball, I've never seen a worse outing....nothing good to say. Painful...

I agree it's way to early to worry yet. I think Williams showed a little of what he can be and Ross showed none of what he should be.

I agree 150 percent with this. Matta can say "We know what we're doing" when Baptist asked him about the big man recruiting void last 2 years.

But no impact big in the program has left them in this predicament -- they can't put the ball on the block and work inside out because nobody ever needs to double their bigs ever and when you don't make your 3's you are dead in the water ... like today.

Their hustle and tenacity kept them in it. Field goal droughts of 4, 10 and 5 minutes each toook them out of it.

They swung and missed on a ton of good to great bigs like Coleman, Parker, etc. Amir is only beginning to get his career going. And Sully leaving after 2 years hurt them a bit. No big in 2012 or so far in 2013. That's my point. They need some help, maybe a JC for next year that can plug right in.

Postgame videos:

Self:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ORGBsnrt0&feature=youtu.be

Matta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyuhw4gCqRw&feature=youtu.be

Craft, Thomas and Scott:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-yL58rg8RQ&feature=youtu.be

Pregame intros, video on video board:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHzBuAbRBc&feature=youtu.be

Game story:

http://ohiostate.247sports.com/Article/Jayhawks-Chalk-Up-Cold-Buckeyes-108057

I think they will do ok in the big ten but all of the team will beat each other up

I just think it's incredible how poor the outside shooting is. A lot of those shots were complete bricks on open looks. These guys are big time college basketball players. I know many of them didn't come to OSU as shooters, but one would've hoped there'd be more noticeable improvement by this point.

Williams is coming on and did a very credible job against their 7'2' big man who is a very polished and savvy senior. Our most serious problem is our lack of dependable shooting at four out of five postions. As bad as we played, if we had shot just 30% in the second half, we could have won this game. Instead we shot closer to 20% and we had a lot of wide open looks. Kansas starts four very experienced seniors and their fifth starter is a freshman and a lottery pick. We have one senior who gives us mighty effort but just isn't a factor against other truly big men. We have only three players with any game experience aganst top competition. My point is . . .we have lost to two very good teams and we are very young and inexperienced.
I still have hopes that our youngsters can continue to improve and we can finish in the top 4 or 5 in the B1G. Craft's numbers are disappointing but he is taking shots that he ordinarily wouldn't because NOBODY else is making shots.
I still think this team has a chance to be really good by the end of the season and that is when it counts.

Craft shouldn't be a starter and we're a borderline top 25 team? All because we lost a close game at Duke, and lost to a very good Kansas team in which we missed a ton of open shots? Granted, we're not a great shooting team, but we're not as bad as we were today, either.

We have to remember that Kansas starts four seniors, and their other starter is a freak who will probably be a top 5 pick in the NBA draft next year. We're not an elite team, but we still are very dangerous.

I learned that the word " great " & Craft should NEVER be used in the same sentence. Great point guards don't score 0 pts in multiple games , great point guards don't score less than 5 pts in multiple games , great point guards show up for big games , great point guards don't repeatedly make bad decisions & commit turnovers in critical moments in the game.

I learned that Craft's defense is overrated. Somehow in some peoples mind getting 2 steals a game translates into great defense , but overlook him repeatedly getting beat off the dribble and/or getting lit up from 3.