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Poole, Lin lead Warriors past Mad Ants
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The Mad Ants looked to be in better position than any other time this season, leading by 20 points in the third quarter Thursday.
Things went awry quickly.
The Santa Cruz Warriors erupted late, taking their first lead midway through the fourth quarter and going up for good when former NBA star Jeremy Lin drained a 3-pointer with 1:34 remaining and won 113-109 in Orlando, Florida.
Nationally, few teams have experienced a rise quite like Ohio Stateâs. The Buckeyes entered the 2020-21 season ranked 23rd in the nation by Associated Press top-25 voters, sandwiched between UCLA and Rutgers. Big Ten reporters projected the Buckeyes would finish seventh within the conference, per an unofficial poll conducted by The Athletic and the Columbus Dispatch. Questions popped up about how the team would fare while integrating numerous new players after losing Kaleb Wesson, Andre Wesson, Luther Muhammad, Alonzo Gaffney and DJ Carton. Some wondered whether the offseason attrition spoke to a larger issue within the program. Internally, however, Ohio State coaches and staffers felt confident in the team now ranked No. 4 in the country with a 17-4 overall record and 11-4 mark within the Big Ten. End-of-year performance reviews of people within the program after the 2019-20 season â obtained by
Feb 15, 2021
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball, where the Drake-Loyola Chicago feud has now supplanted the Drake-Pusha T feud as the best Drake feud:
SEEDING DILEMMAS
We’re inside a month until Selection Sunday, which means the Bracketology machinery will be running overdrive. Dozens of game results will be viewed through the prism of the NCAA tournament: who is in, who is out, what seeds should be assigned to those on the right side of the bubble.
The men’s basketball selection committee gave us the annual sneak preview Saturday, and there wasn’t much controversial about it but that doesn’t mean that creating the final product is going to be easy. With the varied number of games played, the truncated nonconference schedules and the X factor COVID-19 pauses, there could (and probably should) be a considerable range of opinions in the committee room.
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Not since a flurry of victories to close the 2018-19 regular season has Indiana won three consecutive Big Ten games. The program’s latest opportunity to do so won’t be easy.
After beating Iowa and Northwestern to start the week, the Hoosiers are headed to Columbus for a Saturday matinee matchup with No. 4 Ohio State.
The opponent
No team in the country has more Quad I wins than the Buckeyes’ eight this season, a product of Ohio State’s mostly-smooth ride through the Big Ten this season. Chris Holtmann’s crew can’t figure out Purdue, and Minnesota and Northwestern tripped them up, too. But otherwise? Holtmann and company have largely cruised, picking up wins in eight of their past nine games. Speaking of Holtmann, he’s won five of the six meetings with Archie Miller’s Hoosiers since the two coaches took their respective jobs prior to the 2017-18 season.