Ohio State men's basketball beat writer for The Columbus Dispatch. Husband, dad, Christian and Oasis enthusiast. In eternal search of a great record store.
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You know that friend you keep thinking you need to text and you just haven't, for whatever reason?
Do it. Text them now. Tell them hello. Remind them we're all in this together and that you're thinking of them.
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Steven Kwan had a baseball camp today. We bought Liam a ticket for Christmas. He’s been looking forward to it for months. It poured and we couldn’t play, so Kwan met w/each camper and took individual photos on maybe the most stressful day of his career. It meant a lot to the kids
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Late Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr. recognized with a moment of silence before today’s #USMNT friendly.
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#Buckeyes forward E.J. Liddell, fighting back tears: "I’m really hurting inside. I wish I could’ve done more to get it done. This group of guys was really determined. We fought through a lot … I gave it my all this year. I wish I could’ve done a little more though."
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Here’s a sight. Military personnel still at attention in empty Ohio Stadium while attempting to lower a flag that is wrapped to the pole and not coming down.
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Ohio State leads at Michigan, 64-54, in the final minute. With 39 seconds left, Juwan Howard earns a technical foul. Now, down 14 points with 35 seconds left, Juwan Howard calls a timeout.
Just find that interesting.
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Big news: #OhioState is getting Bruce Thornton back for his senior year dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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#Buckeyes forward E.J. Liddell posts threatening, vulgar messages received after the Oral Roberts loss and the authorities are getting involved. New story this morning: buckeyextra.com/story/mens-b…
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Hey, @BNKonFOX...I took the original photo. That's my photo.
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann: "I want to finish the call wishing Ryan Day and our football team well. Monday night, 8 o’clock. Let’s. Go. Can’t wait."
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Matt Duchene told me he dropped to his knees because he didn't know what to do when the puck went in. His mind basically went blank. Biggest goal of his career, he said. #CBJ
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann: "Outside of world peace, I don’t think there’s anything I’d like more than to open this thing up (to fans) for Sunday’s game. It’d be the hottest ticket in a long, long time."
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Cincinnati coach Wes Miller just said #OhioState coach Jake Diebler was able to get the coaches from Xavier, Cincinnati, Dayton and OSU all on a Zoom call to talk about playing. Not just about charity exhibition games, I've been told, but maybe a regular-season event someday.
#OhioState's Jake Diebler had a word for John "Juni" Mobley's early practices. He called them "loud." Asked about it, a smile crept across @jmobleyjr's face.
New #Buckeyes story on the freshman whose shooting is turning heads in practice: dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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#Crew96 Caleb Porter: "They have to be devastated over there in that other locker room. How can you be up 2-0 and up a man and not win the game?" #HellisReal
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So the best coach in the Big Ten isn't the one who rose above an absolute logjam and won the league outright by three games?
Got it.
(I voted for Matt Painter. Chris Collins had a great year, but Purdue won. the. league. by. three. games.)
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#Buckeyes forward E.J. Liddell: "I feel like people forgot how we played when we were fully healthy and locked in and everything. Come tomorrow, you’ll all see a different team."
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann, after three wins in seven days and now a week off: "I know I need a mental break and a couple cold beverages for sure. I’m sure our players need a mental break and some Gatorade."
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Need a feel-good story?
#Buckeyes sophomore E.J. Liddell will be playing Saturday in front of his No. 1 fan, 10-year-old Bentley Kreher from back home. How an act of kindness has bonded the two and led to a first-ever trip to Value City Arena: buckeyextra.com/story/mens-b…
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#Buckeyes freshman Bruce Thornton: "I’m so glad I’m here at Ohio State. There’s no place I’d rather be."
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#OhioState has played basketball for 126 years. It had never won a game while allowing 100+ points.
NEVER. Opponents were 20-0 vs. the #Buckeyes when scoring triple digits.
Final: OSU 116, Nebraska 114. We saw something that's never happened before.
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann: "The fans were highly engaged. I didn’t love some of the things they were saying to one of our players. I thought that was completely uncalled for. Completely uncalled for. I don’t think there’s a place for it."
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It's a special day in the Mahaffey family. The #OhioState forward is celebrating his father's successful heart transplant and new lease on life after a challenging year.
"I'm a miracle walking," Jamie Mahaffey said.
Here's their story:
dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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News: Per a source, #Buckeyes Kyle Young, Zed Key will be available Friday against Loyola Chicago:
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Tom Izzo on Value City Arena: "I would say one thing about this place: I was disappointed in their fans. I thought the way his team has played and how hard they play, this place should be rocking and packed." #buckeyes
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E.J. Liddell burst into tears as his name was called, wiping them with a scarlet cloth napkin.
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Whole bunch of former #Buckeyes are here at the Jake Diebler press conference, from JJ Sullinger to Michael Redd to Aaron Craft to George Reese and more.
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I can’t comprehend the Grant Wahl news. This is a devastating loss. He was so kind to me when I was a new Crew reporter when he had no reason to be. His writing was my Bible on that job. This makes absolutely no sense and there is no way to express a loss like this.
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Breaking: Ohio State is targeting Jake Diebler as the new #Buckeyes head coach, The Dispatch can report
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Don Garber: "After several months of discussions, we are extremely pleased to have reached an agreement in principle w/the Haslam and Edwards families for them to assume an ownership position in Major League Soccer and operate Columbus Crew SC starting in January, 2019." #Crew96
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It’s been a season, #Buckeyes fans. Thank you to everyone who reads, who listens and who follows along. Still the best job in the world and I appreciate all of you.
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Johnny Davis not being a unanimous first-team all-conference pick by the media makes us all look dumb. Someone needs to fess up and admit they don't actually pay attention.
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The Crew will open the 2019 MLS season at home against the New York Red Bulls. And that's going to be played in Columbus, not Austin, Texas.
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#Buckeyes forward Kyle Young: "Putting on my jersey today, taking a moment to reflect on it. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to come back or not (after the concussion)."
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Officially a Buckeye: #OhioState to award honorary degree to LeBron James. Details on the #Buckeyes honor for James:
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And for the record, this is the same person receiving these awful messages:
buckeyextra.com/story/mens-b…
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#OhioState 2024 signee John Paul "Juni" Mobley Jr. (@JohnPaulMobley1) is sticking with his commitment to the #Buckeyes and has already met with new head coach Jake Diebler.
New story: dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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#Buckeyes guard Malaki Branham on his first NCAA Tournament: "I’m very excited. I came from St. Vincent-St. Marys. Winning is all we’ve known."
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Another degree for #Buckeyes forward Seth Towns, who also has one from Harvard.
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Watch the #Buckeyes observe a moment of silence pregame for the two fallen Westerville police officers.
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Per a source, #Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann is NOT interviewing with North Carolina today about its head coaching job.
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Seth Towns was clear when he committed to Ohio State that #Buckeyes fans would see how much putting on that jersey meant to him. To battle back from two years missed due to a knee injury and now be sidelined with a back injury...that's really tough. Hope we see more of him.
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann, on coaching Duane Washington Jr.: "I love him. I love coaching him, but he’s going to send me to early death."
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Exclusive: A fully healthy Seth Towns will return for a seventh season with the #Buckeyes dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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Exclusive: After a strong graduate transfer season with the program, Andrew Dakich planning to return to the #Buckeyes next season as a graduate assistant on Chris Holtmann's staff dispatch.com/sports/20180507…
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It wasn't an accident that #Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann, in his opening statement, pointed out that "It was great having a 9 p.m. tip."
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Matt Painter, asked how differences for Ohio State w/Jake Diebler versus Chris Holtmann: "Nothing. None. If he was here, the score would’ve been 73-69 Ohio State. They didn’t run anything different. They didn’t do anything different. It’s a players’ game. They have good players."
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann publicly stumping for assistant Terry Johnson to be a head coach someday: "I have a man on our staff, Terry Johnson, who I just believe in at a rally high level. I believe he deserves an opportunity. "
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It took barely five minutes into his press conference for Chris Holtmann to give Thad Matta credit tonight for leaving him high-character #Buckeyes like Keita Bates-Diop and Jae'Sean Tate, helping him win Big Ten coach of the year.
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I just had a thought. The last time Duke and North Carolina were both unranked when they played each other was 1960. Anyone remember who won the national title that season?
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It's official: Justice is coming back to the #Buckeyes: dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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YOU get a foul and YOU get a foul and I was just called for a foul while tweeting this.
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#Buckeyes E.J. Liddell and Duane Washington Jr. on the all-Big Ten tournament team.
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Jae'Sean Tate said when Chris Holtmann told the #Buckeyes who had won individual awards today, he didn't include his own award. The other coaches had to tell the players that Holtmann was also coach of the year.
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So Ohio State’s nine losses this year came to...
The NIT champion (3)
A Final Four team (1)
Two Sweet Sixteen teams (3)
Two teams that won an NCAA Tournament game (2)
Interesting.
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Not my most flattering photo, but that’s a wrap on season eight(!) on the #Buckeyes beat for @DispatchAlerts . Continually grateful that I get to do this for a living. Thanks to all of you who click, listen, watch, read and follow along.
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Apparently the Ohio State football team will play in the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 19 at noon, so the #Buckeyes hoops team will now play at 4:15ish instead of 2 p.m. that same day vs. North Carolina in the CBS Sports Classic.
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The Big Ten not playing football has *zero* to do with any political affiliation whatsoever. To state or imply anything else is an absolute fabrication.
No, I want Big Ten, and all other football, back - NOW. The Dems don’t want football back, for political reasons, but are trying to blame me and the Republicans. Another LIE, but this is what we are up against! They should also open up all of their Shutdown States.
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Doug Gottlieb: "If anybody has questions about the hire, watch the tape and ask basketball people. … Ohio State basketball is in a really good place." dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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Lori Schmidt is a rare oasis in the desert of malcontents and oddballs who make up working in sports media. It breaks my heart to see word that she's looking for a job. She's an icon of Columbus sports media and deserves so, so much better.
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Jay Wright says if the #Buckeyes had been healthy all year, they would have been a 2 or 3 seed.
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann watched the entire Gardner-Webb game. "I gave myself that two-hour window to not worry about anything else but watching the school that gave me my first head-coaching job."
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Oakland coach Greg Kampe, on his team's defense against the #Buckeyes: "One of their frustrations was we knew everything they were going to do. Oh, I could make a comment."
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As we've talked about multiple times this year, Chris Holtmann reiterates that this is E.J. Liddell's last #Buckeyes home game.
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Video! The #Buckeyes take the court to face Cincinnati.
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This makes me think of when he threw paper towels to hurricane victims like he was passing out participation ribbons to a grade-school class. There is a deep, deep disconnect there that is terrifying.
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Talk to Thad Matta today, and he'll tell you this is the loss he'll never get over. Bracket was wide open, and this #Buckeyes team was loaded.
March 25, 2011: Brandon Knight hits the game winner as 4-seed Kentucky upsets 1-seed Ohio State 62-60 in the #NCAATournament Sweet 16.
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Watched the first half of the #Buckeyes win from Children’s Hospital. Watched the second half at home with Liam. He’s back to 100%, so I’m Chicago-bound shortly and back at it in the morning. Thanks for all of the well wishes!
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This is an unreal day, #Crew96 / #CrewSC / #SaveTheCrew / #SaveDtheCrew fans. Celebrate it. Tell your kids about it. Hell, tell everyone you know.
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BREAKING: Multiple sources confirm that I have a new buddy. Owen showed up at 12:27 this morning and everyone is doing great!
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann just now: "I know this win means a lot to Buckeye Nation. We’ve got a lot of respect for this Michigan team." Said he spent some time with Ryan Day in the locker room.
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Dailyn Swain has officially entered the portal, and #OhioState's Devin Royal has already started recruiting him to the #Buckeyes: dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
NEWS: Xavier wing Dailyn Swain is entering the transfer portal, he tells @on3.
The 6-8 sophomore averaged 11.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game this season.
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Ohio State-Oral Roberts just got referenced during this Saint Peter's-Kentucky game. Take a drink, #Buckeyes fans.
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Per his Instagram, Bronny James is here at Ohio Stadium. The rest of the #Buckeyes hoops recruits are not here yet.
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Eight members of the #Buckeyes men's basketball team earned academic all-Big Ten status this winter: Justin Ahrens, Gene Brown III, Harrison Hookfin, Meechie Johnson Jr., Jimmy Sotos, Justice Sueing, Seth Towns and Kyle Young.
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I've seen the report that Dorian Jones is requesting his release from #OhioState and reopening his recruitment. He was not going to qualify academically to play for the #Buckeyes this year and would have had to be released even to play prep ball. This is an academic situation.
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Aaron Craft, on the ESPN broadcast, about facing Jimmer Fredette on Sunday: "I wanted to guard him my freshman year in college. I didn’t have an opportunity to do it, but I’ll get to do it Sunday.”
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Press release from Ohio State: "A total of 220 student-athletes have engaged in 608 reported NIL activities with a total compensation value of $2.98 million. All three figures rank No. 1 nationally, according to Opendorse."
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Purdue's Matt Painter: "You could see the heart of Ohio State. Those guys played really well in this tournament. You can see the future of Ohio State with Okpara and Gayle and Bruce Thornton. They've got a great class coming and a great coach." #Buckeyes
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Carlos Gonzalez chopped a hard-hit ball down the left-field line for an RBI double in the bottom of the sixth. He's 2 for 3 with a walk and RBI in his Clippers debut. #Indians
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Michigan State's Gabe Brown, on #Buckeyes center Joey Brunk: "He wasn’t even on the scouting report. We had like two clips of him."
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I realized tonight that I'm officially "glad it rained because the lawn really needed it" years old.
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There will be a moment of silence for Tyler Trent before the Purdue game tomorrow as part of Ohio State's Coaches vs. Cancer game.
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann: "I want to begin with congratulations to our women on their win over Tennessee."
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News: #OhioState's Devin Royal announces his return to the #Buckeyes for his junior year, giving OSU its three potential top returning scorers all in the fold for 2025-26: dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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#Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann, on Fran McCaffery's referee staredown: "That was some good TV. We all know Fran. Fran can run hot, and I don’t know what you do in that situation because the official, Kelly, kind of stepped toward Fran."
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#Buckeyes at Duke will be Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. on ESPN. Plan accordingly.
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I just want to share this. At the Dispatch, we're dealing with our second round of layoffs in the last five months. We all have a furlough week this month. Nobody knows who is and isn't safe. It's tough times for a lot of folks, so we're no different, but this is all very hard.
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Scotty Middleton is back with the #Buckeyes. Bruce Thornton and Roddy Gayle both sound like they are fine and will play against Georgia on Tuesday, Jake Diebler just told us.
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I can confirm that Ohio State will be hiring Jake Diebler to replace Mike Schrage on Chris Holtmann's coaching staff. Brother of #Buckeyes legend Jon Diebler, and a native Ohioan.
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Confirmed @GoodmanHoops's report that #OhioState and Kentucky will play at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 21 in the CBS Sports Classic: dispatch.com/story/sports/co…
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Video! #OhioState climbs the stairs to take the court at Williams Arena.
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