The Buckeye Battle Cry: Ohio State News and Commentary » Michigan basketball

Big Ten Tournament: Round 1 Preview

Ken — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:00:30 +0000

It’s hard to believe that such a competitive season has culminated to this. One tournament, the week before the big dance. For the first time in it’s history, the B1G Tourney has sold out before play even starts. We have seen some great opening round games the last few years, that have set up teams to a championship game run. Today, we don’t expect much different. We have a slate full of competitive games with huge implications on the line. Here is a look at today’s opening round games with a short preview of what to expect on the hardwood in Chicago in the opening round.

#8 Illinois vs. #9 Minnesota
This will be a hard game to figure out; both teams come in with similar records and both play schizophrenic (due respect to those diagnosed) basketball. Illinois comes into this game losers of 3 of their last 4 … [Read More]

Breakdownability: Ohio State @ Michigan II

Ken — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:00:42 +0000

School: University of Michigan

Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Founded: 1817

Student Population: 42,716 total, 27,407 undergrad

School Type: Public – Land Grant

Stadium: Crisler Center

Seating: 12,721

Opened: 1963

Head Coach: John Beilein

Experience: 6th year at UM

The 11th ranked Buckeyes (17-4, 7-2) travel to the Crisler Center to complete the season series with the #1 ranked Wolverines (20-2, 7-2). The last time these teams met, Ohio State was ranked 15th and Michigan ranked #2. Since then, both OSU and UM have gone 4-1. This is the second of a two-game road trip for Ohio State, while Michigan returns home to begin a two-game home stand.

Information will be pulled from the excellent site at Statsheet . I‘ll measure of teams capabilities that I will refer to will be the Four Factors; effective FG%, TO%, Off Rebounds Rate and FT Rate, as well as a couple other … [Read More]

Five Keys to Beating Michigan

Tim Shoemaker — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:20:20 +0000

Ohio State’s men’s basketball team will likely find itself in unfamiliar territory on Sunday as a home underdog.

The Buckeyes, coming off of a 74-64 road victory against Purdue on Tuesday, will host arch rival and undefeated Michigan on Sunday.

Along with Duke, Michigan has been the most impressive team in the country so far this season. The Wolverines feature a balanced scoring attack, led by player of the year candidate Trey Burke.

Michigan has four players who average in double digit scoring: Burke at 18.2 points per game, Tim Hardaway Jr. with 16.3, Nik Stauskas at 13.5 and Glenn Robinson III with 12.6.

As much as it may pain Buckeye fans to admit, Michigan seems like it is on a mission to not only win the Big Ten title, but contend for a national title as well.

However, this game on Sunday is in Columbus. After being embarrassed by … [Read More]

tBBC B1G Basketball Roundtable – Part Two

WVaBuckeye — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:46:28 +0000

With basketball season rapidly approaching and a lot of information to digest from around the conference, I thought it was high time we hear from bloggers representing them. We finish off the series in roundtables with our last seven today! We hope you enjoy the feature and give us plenty of feedback, and be sure to check out Part One.

Introducing our comrades from around the B1G we start off with Rick Reese of the Iowa Blog Black Heart Gold Pants; Brian Rosenthal, Lincoln Journal Star writer and Husker Extra writer; Penn State writer for StateCollege.com Ben Jones; Philip Rossman-Reich writer for Lake the Posts ; Jonathan Foster, writer for From the Barn, one of my favorite B1G blogs.

I honestly had issues trying to round up bloggers for TTUN and for the Fighting Illini, and have the only Michigan fan I like helping out in Giuliano, (So Fla Wolverine to … [Read More]

Ohio State Dominates Second Half in 64-49 Win over Michigan

Joe Dexter — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:10:57 +0000

If anyone doubted the fact that the Michigan/Ohio State rivalry is back, this afternoon’s display of strategic basketball on both sides of the floor shows the real story in the Wolverines rise back to prominence in the Big Ten Conference.

A look at the scoreboard after this one doesn’t quite put it into context. After running into the best overall effort from Ohio State starters, the Wolverines hit the road with arguably their best performance in the last 8 years against their out of state Rivals. Despite a lackluster second half, and as much as we hate to say it — this team remains as one of the top to be reckoned with in this conference and in March.

Even after falling 64-49 in Columbus.

You can site the incoming talent, but in reality it’s the coaching of John Beilein. After taking an early 5-0 lead, Ohio State began to … [Read More]

Pregame Glance: Michigan

Joe Dexter — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:00:09 +0000

For most fans, all that matters is beating Michigan on the gridiron. These days, things have changed as Michigan has actually been able to become a true challenge the past few seasons. Of course, it took recruiting out of state to get to the top, but the Wolverines have arrived.

Now the only question is can they beat the best.

School: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Founded: 1817
Student Population: 41,674
School Type: Public
Division: NCAA
Conference: Big Ten Conference
Stadium: Crisler ~~Arena~~ Center
Seating: 12,721
Built: 1967
Head Coach: Jon Beilein
Year: 5th

Previewing the Wolverines:

As Eric stated on Friday, Michigan’s season has been up to par with what we have expected. Despite dropping some games that they shouldn’t have, the Wolverines have started a lotthanks to some great play all around. Freshman point guard Trey Burke has really come out of the gates firing, … [Read More]

Ohio State wins ugly against Michigan, 62-53

Jay — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:42:07 +0000

The Michigan Wolverines visited Columbus on Thursday night and gave the Buckeyes all they could handle, but in the end Ohio State prevailed to move to 23-0 on the 2010-11 season. After a brutal first half for the Buckeyes, the team came out in the second half and steadily got it together as the game wore on, finishing off the Wolverines down the stretch and protecting their undefeated streak. The Schott was rocking on a night that saw Ohio State gut out a good win over yet another Big Ten opponent that gave the Buckeyes their best shot.

As the game got started, it looked as though Ohio State was going to blow out the Wolverines. Coming off a close win over Northwestern, the Buckeyes jumped out to a 7-0 lead before two minutes had ticked by on the clock. However, Michigan came storming back on stellar play from star … [Read More]

Pregame glance: Michigan 2, Wolverines Invade Columbus

Jay — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:57 +0000

We’ve already had a pregame glance at Michigan this season, so you can consider this a pregame double-take. Back on January 12th the Buckeyes traveled North to take on the Wolverines in a game that you may better remember as The Brady Hoke Arrival Showdown Memorial Roundball Classic. In that earlier contest Ohio State picked up their 17th victory of the season on a hard-fought 68-64 win, battling through some crafty Michigan defense, a second-half scoring drought, and a Wolverine run near the end of the game that made it a bit close for comfort.

That game came in the middle of a particularly bad stretch for Michigan, as they had dropped their two games prior to facing the Buckeyes (Wisconsin, Kansas) and proceeded to drop their next three games after the Buckeyes left town (Indiana, Northwestern, Minnesota). More recently the Wolverines have started to turn it around, picking … [Read More]