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By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:00:11 +0000

The game was great. They played extremely hard. I cannot fault them. I wish it had gone the other way. I do think that the team can build off of this and if certain people stay/commit watch out for UM Hoops next year.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:44:40 +0000

Drae thats because they started it after thad matta had called a timeout so they had to put the time back on

By: Drae

Drae — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:40:06 +0000

Anyone notice the clock when OSU called time out @ the end… It was 2.0 not 2.2… Great effort poor last defensive set… Still great game!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:37:18 +0000

That seems to be a pretty fitting end to a brutal season. I can’t remember a team that ever finding more agonizing ways to lose games. I thought they had it perfected after the MSU game, but they topped that today. And yeah, it was a terrible decision not to guard the inbounds pass. That’s all I can say.

By: rs

rs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:34:06 +0000

I might guess that Beilein didn’t think that Turner could catch the ball, dribble a few times and get the ball off in 2.2 seconds. If the clock had started on time he probably didn’t. Beilein may have thought they only had time for a throw past half court and a catch and shoot.

Either way, I probably would have defended the throw in but I’m not a coach.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:33:29 +0000

if you have any pressure at all there is no way he gets that far up court. im not even saying contest the shot just make him change his dribble and the games is over. instead they let him run up past half court. this one is defiantly on beilein.

By: ToBlav

ToBlav — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:32:39 +0000

It hurts. I am proud of the team’s showing. It was really good for the youngest team in the Big Ten. Still, it hurts.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:30:30 +0000

@ chitownblue are you sure? He totally looked like he was doing an “in your face we scored” thing. To me anyway.

By: intrpdtrvlr

intrpdtrvlr — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:25:50 +0000

I agree with AG2. If you’re going to need a 40 foot shot to win the game in two seconds, that was about as ideal an unfolding as OSU could have imagined.

For everything Beilein did well and for everything his coaching contributed to the win, it sucks to have it wiped any by what most observers would say was a dubious defensive approach on the last play. Just because OSU needs a miracle shot to win doesn’t coaching decisions don’t matter. Yes, he made an unlikely shot but partially because he got about the best look he could have hoped for.