Impressive win for Los Buckeyes

For some reason a three-point loss to a very good Purdue team really soured me on this Ohio State team. I had ZERO confidence that the Buckeyes would win at the Breslin Center yesterday. I even had to resort to watching much of the game with no sound.

Truth-be-told, I was supposed to be doing homework at the time too. And I'm sick of these early Sunday afternoon games. Hard to get the juices flowing after 90 minutes of Charles Osgood.

Buckeyes were up early, looking impressive. The second half starts and...here we go again. Michigan State starts to come back...I've seen this movie before, most recently in Morgantown, WV.

I was wrong though. Buckeyes held on and even pulled away a bit late. The defense was a bit lax at times down the stretch but Evan Turner was a MAN (as usual) the team wasn't bad from the charity stripe when it mattered.

The Buckeyes are a game behind Purdue and tied with Michigan State in the Big Ten standings with three games left to play. Wednesday night at Penn State, Saturday at home against Fuck Michigan and then wrapping it up at home the following Wednesday against Illinois. Ohio State will definitely be favored in all those games.

Conversely, Purdue has four games remaining including at Minnesota and in West Lafayette against Michigan State. If the Buckeyes can win their remaining three they have a real shot of at least sharing the Big Ten regular season title.

Incidentally, Purdue is now #3 in the Coach's Poll and Ohio State is now #9. Clearly Purdue is playing for more than the Big Ten title at this point, they're playing for a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

As of today, ESPN's Joe Lundardi has OSU as a three seed in the tournament. Buckeyes could potentially move as high as a two depending on what other teams do. I would certainly be very happy with a three seed though.

Also of note, that was Ohio State's third win in their last five trips to East Lansing. Prior to that the Buckeyes had not won there in 13 years. Yikes.

And HEY! LOOK AT THAT!! MICHIGAN STATE HAS STUDENTS SURROUNDING THE FLOOR! That's just crazy, isn't it?

I think I'm going to start printing 'Raze the Schottenstein Center' shirts.