GT: Nebraska at Ohio State - 6PM - ESPN

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February 26, 2015
6pm CT - ESPN
Value City Arena - Columbus, OH

Nebraska Cornhuskers 13-14, 5-10 (Last: 74-46 L vs Iowa)
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Ohio State Buckeyes 19-8, 8-6 (Last: 64-57 L vs Michigan)

Big Ten Standings

  1. Wisconsin 13-2, 25-3
  2. Maryland 11-4, 23-5
  3. Michigan State 10-4, 19-8
  4. Purdue 10-4, 18-9
  5. Iowa 9-6, 18-10
  6. Ohio State 8-6, 19-8
  7. Indiana 9-7, 19-10
  8. Illinois 7-8, 17-11
  9. Michigan 7-8, 14-13
  10. Minnesota 5-10, 16-12
  11. Northwestern 5-10, 14-14
  12. Nebraska 5-10, 13-14
  13. Penn State 3-12, 15-13
  14. Rutgers 2-13, 10-18
Head Coaches
Nebraska Tim Miles (330-265, 47-45 at Nebraska)
Ohio State Thad Matta (396-122, 294-91 at Ohio State)

Injury Report
Nebraska
No injuries to report

Ohio State
F - Anthony Lee - Knee - Questionable

Scouting Ohio State
Under Thad Matta, Ohio State comes into Thursday’s game at Minnesota with a 19-8 record and sits in a tie for sixth in the Big Ten standings. The Buckeyes are coming off back-to-back losses at Michigan State and at Michigan. OSU has been exceptional at home, going 16-1 with the lone loss coming in a 71-65 loss to Iowa on Dec. 30.

Matta, who served as an assistant to former Nebraska Coach Barry Collier at Butler, is in his 11th season at OSU and has guided the Buckeyes to eight NCAA appearances, including an NCAA runner-up finish in 2007 and a Final Four appearance in 2012. OSU returned a pair of starters from a team that won 25 games and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Ohio State is a balanced squad which is second in the Big Ten in scoring offense (77.2 ppg) and third in scoring defense (61.2 ppg). OSU shoots nearly 50 percent from the field as a team and is holding opponents to 39 percent shooting. Freshman D’Angelo Russell is a frontrunner for national freshman of the year, as he leads OSU in scoring (19.0 ppg) and rebounding (5.8 rpg) while ranking third in the Big Ten with 5.4 assists per game.

Marc Loving and Sam Thompson join Russell to give OSU three scorers, as Loving averages 10.9 points per game, including 51 percent from 3-point range, while Thompson is at 10.3 points per game. Senior point guard Shannon Scott paces the Big Ten in assists at 6.1 per game, while Jae’Sean Tate averages 8.4 points per game on 58 percent shooting. OSU has 10 players who play at least double figures in minutes.

 
Please can we not have another 20 or 30 point loss at Ohio State because that would look bad in the four years of playing in Columbus.

I want us to compete and play like no tomorrow and keep it competitive, we should not show signs of frustration or quit. We should play like we have nothing to lose instead of playing in FEAR of losing or being scared to lose.

I like watching this team play, when they are good it is really exciting, but years like this I am hoping for some good to happen and I don't know if Columbus is the place where we win but I want this team to have an attitude that they care.

 
Play hard. If Pitchford can get hot like he did against Maryland it's gonna open things up for this offense. Petteway has got to distribute the ball.

 
For those who don't think off-ball movement and screens exist anymore, PLEASE watch this game. Ohio State has set more off-ball screens on their first possession than we do in a lot of games.

 
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