Bucknutin' But Net

agreed......but, I'll take the win.

Team needs a kick in the ass. We will see what hapens at MSU. I am afraid we lose by double digits.

This team has a lack of communication, I have never seen a team get beat so much on defense because they dont know how to switch on screens. This team should play zone and nothing else point blank period....... Also l think imho they would get better results if they move Thomas to the wing and replace Smith with Williams and move sullinger to the 4 spot. This team might only win the 1st rd in the tourney and then get sent home packing.

an almost total collapse in the last five minutes. good to see buford still throwing them up there and clanking them off the rim. how many would he have to miss before matta would take him out? will thomas get any votes for defensive player of the year? i think not. craft was about the only bright spot i saw. sullinger is really good against teams with no big men at all. unfortunately most good teams have one or more big guys.
i know this was an away game and it was their senior night but winning by one point after obliterating them the first time by twenty-seven was pretty disappointing. how this helps prepare the team for michigan state on sunday and the tournaments after that i really don't know. this is not a great northwestern team but our defense was so lax and so slow and so unable to follow the ball when it went back around the horn or when one of their guys drove to the basket, they had open shots the whole second half.
i really hope these guys will wake up and put forth a real effort on sunday, but i think michigan state will bounce back from their loss much more vociforously than we did.

the only shot the Bucks have Sunday is if they can control the boards....MSU can't shoot 3's like NW...40 footers?.....Just can't get Intimidated and Pushed Around like in Cbus...and it would help to shoot a little better than 26% from the floor...if the Bucks shoot 40% on 3's and make some FT's they will roll,but,thats a BIG IF.

So outrebounding a team 42-16 isn't hustle? Hm... Well if ur done.. just hang it up, leave, and please don't post again. Thanks cya

MSU depends on everyone played as a unit and not as individuals. Sullinger cannot fade out of the game after getting hit by Nix, Payne and Green. He must stay "engaged" to play the game. The other four guys need to contribute on the court. There must be no zero points in thirty minutes by Smith. Piss poor shot selection and shooting by Buford needs to be eliminated. Thomas needs to get back in the flow and put the junk shot back in the rim. Craft needs to hit the wide open three pointers and so does everyone else.

This team plays like they did a month ago, OSU has a great shot at beating Sparty. However, the Buckeyes had better not play Sparty like last time or it will be a twenty point loss.

Maybe you sound like a quitter because you are one.

This team is playing MSU and if they win they are conference champs. Read it out loud to yourself because you seem not to understand.

They have lost 6 games including to #3 Kansas without Sully and 5 games in the best conference in America this year.

While they are not were a lot of us hoped they would be - the grinding physical B10 style of play (and inconsistent officiating) has taken its toll on them - they are still a top 10 team, and right now a likely #2 seed in the NCAA.

Do you think his "dumbed down" style might have something to do with the fact that his team is 1 senior, 1 xfer junior, 6 sophomores and 5 freshman? 8 players have logged more than 300 minutes and 9 players average over 10 MPG. Contrast that with MSU who has 8 players with more than 300 minutes and 8 with over 10 MPG.

So before we close the book on the Buckeyes this year, why don't we finish the year?

5 Turnovers in the last 4 min of the game,when they're trying to run down the clock...Totally Unacceptable......Forget the past from here on out ALL the games mean something starting at MSU for a share of THE B1G...then all One or your dones in the Tourny...Gut Check Time

Once again I say you are 100% wrong. If the team had no heart or no "Killer instinct" they would have put their heads down and wilted during that final 5-6 minutes and been done when NU made that last 3-pointer to tie the game. So what did the team with "no floor leaders" do? They ran a play where that heavily criticized point guard(who played a magnificent game) took the inbounds pass, headed down the floor, made an excellent and difficult pass to Sully(another heavily criticized player) that had run the length of the court and taken a position in the lane. Sully, (the non-leader with no heart )makes a great catch in traffic, turns toward the basket and scores while holding off the defender. Chaos ensues. NU inbounds the ball to Shurna who drives the ball just past midcourt and shoots. And who was there to disrupt that final shot? That's right boys and girls, Big Sully!! You know the one that just whines and lays on the floor. Last two plays of the game that the Bucks led from the start and Sully and Craft and Buford are still going 110% trying to hold on to win. No heart? No Leadership? Me thinks you complain too much! The nice thing about being a fan is you get to live in the world that you create. So you can forget things like this is Big Ten basketball and these teams can really play. The players make mistakes. But if you want to see a team that displayed mental toughness then rewatch last night's game. Both teams qualify. You guys want to see a rout and think that's mental toughness. I disagree and it is becoming tedious to read posters on here complain about players whining. Look in a mirror!

this team blew 2 8 point leads against wisconsin with 6 minutes left and they blew an 11 point lead with 6 minutes left against northwestern. forgive me for thinking that better teams will shit on them. imagine if they played kentucky or syracuse...

My thought is Thomas is becoming one the the biggest detriments to this team of late. Aside from the fact that he is the absoulte worst defender on this team, his self absorbed attitude is becoming apparent. Did anyone happen to catch the screen shot after a fowl when Lenzelle had to yell at Thomas and basically tell him to get his ass in the huddle.I can't count the times I watched last night that after Thomas got torched on D the first thing he did was immediately begin cherry picking down court and stick his had up for the ball in hopes of an easy score. Check out his body language when he is not getting touches and others are having scoring success. It is obvious he is playing for himself only right now in an attemt to line his wallet soon. Great scorer, but as we have seen, doesn't always equate to wins.

If Thad doesn't call time out at the end and we don't score and go to ot he would get crucified on here. He calls a timeout and we get a great shot which we make to win the game and we're criticizing his use of time outs? I don't get it.