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Buckeyes at Hoosiers College Basketball Picks (02-25-2008) |
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Written by MadmenSports
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
The Hoosiers are in the middle of a recruiting scandal, a coaching change as a result and rumors of a player boycott, and yet they have managed to put together an impressive three-game College Basketball picks winning streak. Go figure.
Indiana is ranked 12th in the country as they try to move into a tie atop the conference and earn its first regular season sweep of Ohio State in 10 years when it hosts the Buckeyes on Tuesday. SportsBetting.com currently has the Buckeyes as the +8 dogs heading to Indiana.
Ohio State at Indiana
Assembly Hall
Bloomington, Indiana
Tip Off: 7:00pm EST
There was some doubt as to whether Indiana’s players would even attend Saturday’s game at Northwestern after six of them skipped Friday’s practice, the first under interim coach Dan Dakich.
While most Hoosiers opposed the buyout of former coach Kelvin Sampson - who had been charged with major recruiting violations and presenting false information to the NCAA - all of them made the trip to Evanston and played in the team’s 85-82 win over the Wildcats.
Indiana, though, has played well through difficult times. The Hoosiers moved back into contention for the Big Ten title with home wins over Michigan State and Purdue last week, even though the Sampson investigation was by then hanging publicly over the program.
With four games left, the Hoosiers are tied in the loss column with the 16th-ranked Boilermakers and No. 10 Wisconsin.
Indiana shot 56.1 percent against Northwestern, as Eric Gordon and D.J. White had 18 and 16 points, respectively. It was a more unlikely duo, however, that played the biggest role in the victory.
Guard Armon Bassett had a season-high 24 points, while reserve guard Jordan Crawford added 21 and five assists. The two players shot a combined 8-of-12 from 3-point range.
Dakich, who played at Indiana and was an assistant there under former coach Bob Knight, was greeted warmly by fans in Evanston, and it would seem likely he’d get a similar reaction in his first game as head coach at Assembly Hall.
Ohio State has lost four of its last five games in Bloomington, but the Hoosiers haven’t managed a two-game sweep of the Buckeyes since the 1997-98 season. They beat Ohio State 59-53 in Columbus on Feb. 10, getting 21 points and 13 rebounds from White.
Including that game, the Buckeyes have lost three of four, and may be in need of a defining win to help their case for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
They shot 37 percent from the field in a 58-53 home defeat to then-No. 11 Wisconsin on Sunday, losing despite freshman Kosta Koufos’ third straight double-double. It was the fourth straight time Ohio State fell to a ranked opponent by six points or fewer, extending its losing streak against ranked teams to seven.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 February 2008 )
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