Sunday, January 14, 2007

How Good Are the Buckeyes?

At football, good but not good enough.
At basketball, not sure yet, but probably the same answer.
The young Buckeyes hoopsters led by Greg Oden, Mike Conley and my favorite player Daequan Cook got their first big victory over Tennessee.
Greg Oden finally got the ball on offense and scored a career high 24 points.
Pizza Parlor Derek was ambivalent about the victory because it came against his favorite coach, Bruce Pearl.
Now OSU has lost it's 3 games against 3 of the top 4 teams in the country (North Carolina, Florida & Wisconsin), though North Carolina will slide down in the rankings after losing to Virginia Tech.
All of this is relevant, for two reasons.
First, I have $90 riding on the Ohio State to do in basketball what they couldn't do in football.
Second, Pizza Parlor Derek and I have made travel arrangements to visit Pizza Parlor Daren in Columbus. We will hopefully be seeing OSU against Michigan State but as yet we haven't secured tickets. We might have ticket connections but due to the astronomical prices on stubhub I fear we're going to end up going the scalper route.
Nonetheless, I look forward to the trip and to seeing Greg Oden in person.


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