Ohio State men's basketball team ranked first in AP poll | The Columbus Dispatch

Ohio State reached No.1 in the Associated Press men's basketball poll today for the first time this season and the second time in the past four years.

[Daily Customer]

As soon as Deshaun Thomas gets a bit more playing time, OSU will have the Fab 3 in the Big 10!

[Andrew Williams]

Going Strong... Congrats to all the staff and players.... Ohio State Fan Forever............

[exlibriswr]

Daily Customer wrote:

As soon as Deshaun Thomas gets a bit more playing time, OSU will have the Fab 3 in the Big 10!

As soon as DT learns to play a more complete game, he'll get the minutes.

[George Soros]

HOPE THEY DO BETTER RATED #1 THAN THE FOOTBALL TEAM....ONE WEKK???

[dsmith]

being no 1 Big Deal~ Don"t Understand Why This is A Big Deal To People? Maybe in Football But Basketball ~ Really Who Cares?

[nastyNate]

Gotta love Craft. Great young player we'll get to see for at least another year or two.

[dsmith]

And As From As I"m Concern OSU IS fRom Being The Best Team in The Country Top 10 For Sure~ Got to Play Better Soon

[bbb]

It's so nice to see such an unselfish group of guys playing for the Buckeyes again. Much like the group of the 60's. Keep up the good work--make us proud again. GO BUCKS!!!!

[George B from Westerville]

Thad Matta is a class act, a great X and Os guy and an fantastic recruiter and more importantly, runs a clean program. Hope all our players paid for their tatoos lol. The buckeyes have a heck of a team this year, a unique blend of seniors and freshmen (one junior I believe, Buford). Don't expect them to go undefeated, but would be great to win the conference, do well in the B10 tourney and go deep in the big dance. GO BUCKS!

[George B from Westerville]

dsmith wrote:

being no 1 Big Deal~ Don"t Understand Why This is A Big Deal To People? Maybe in Football But Basketball ~ Really Who Cares?

Apparently you enough to make this post.:)

[Michigan Buckeye]

Now that you've gotten to number one it really takes long hours in the gym....don't let anyone badger you

[Clint]

Go Buckeyes and Coach Matta .... The Buckeyes are very deserving of the # 1 ranking and Let's hope we can stay on top for a couple of weeks with the tough part of the Big Ten Conference schedule coming up ...Go Bucks !

[FLABUCK]

The #1 ranking is great, but there is a long road ahead. 8 of the next 13 remaining games are against ranked conference opponents. They need to come out and dominate Iowa since it's a home game. Then comes Illinois and Purdue. I say let's see them get through the next 13 games with 2 losses or less and then we can really start the "best team in the country" talk. They have the right players, the right attitude, now it's all about execution to be the best. GO BUCKS!

[pmf6573]

i think its great that buckeyes, made a rank that they deserve.
they've won a lot of close games this year.

[Mikey]

SWEEEEEET!!!!:)

[Greg]

Congraulations to Coach Matta, the assistant coaches and the players for achieving the # 1 ranking.

I know as well that for Coach Matta he will downplay the rankings knowing that the only # 1 ranking that matters is at the end of the year.

This is a fun team to watch, with its mixture of upper classmen and youth, of good play in the post and good play on the perimeter. I hope this team continues to improve and continues to put forth its best effort.

[Clint]

Great News .... Coach Matta can recruit ..the starting ( 5 ) are all from the State of Ohio ... 2007 Mr Ohio Basketball Jon Diebler , 2008 Mr Ohio William Buford , 2009- 2010 Mr Ohio Jared Sullinger and 2010 Mr Indiana Deshaun Thomas ..Plus Mr Cleveland Basketball David Lighty and Mr Queen City Basketball Jordan Sibert along with runner-up of the City of Chicago Lenzelle Smith .... + Can't forget Dallas Lauderdale , Solon ,Ohio.. Go Buckeyes # 1 in the Country .

[mike]

too bad.

[Tom]

This is no knock on the Bucks, but the Big Ten is so tough that the Bucks will lose some road games. Then they get bumped from No. 1. But staying in the top three or four teams, so that they get a No. 1 Seed in the NCAA is a good goal to have, along with winning the Big Ten. Certainly the Bucks are capable of doing all of that. But it is tough to stay focused and to win when you're the team that is circled on each opponent's calendar.

Great bunch of guys, great coach, great program, great university. This alum is very proud.

Go Bucks!

[ferr]

How much dose that cost the tax payer ?