B.J Mullens News

Questions surrounding the Big Ten men's and women's basketball seasons:\ MEN \ Is the Big Ten back? Looks like it.

Evan Turner discovered last spring what's involved in the voting for Big Ten player of the year.

COLUMBUS: Evan Turner thought long and hard about jumping early to the NBA after last season.

Most of the Ohio State Buckeyes have returned to make this season's men's basketball team a veteran group.

Ohio State starting center Dallas Lauderdale broke a bone is his right hand during a workout Monday, four days before the beginning of training camp.A Lauderdale, who shared time at center with BJ Mullens last season, will have surgery Wednesday and will be out four to six weeks.

Ohio State's basketball team returns several standouts, including guard Evan Turner, here driving to the basket against Illinois' Chester Frazier.

Ten days of practice with a roster that includes no clueless freshmen and the return of injured David Lighty, the glue of Ohio State's basketball team? "It's almost like we're cheating," Lighty said Thursday.

One of the drawbacks to a college basketball team playing summer exhibition games outside the United States is that the NCAA prohibits incoming freshmen from making the trip.

During this AAU national tournament and the Super Showcase, we had the opportunity to witness some of the top high school players in the country compete at the highest level.

Randolph Morris is no small man. Standing a shade over 6-foot-10 and carrying some 270 pounds qualifies him as an expert on living large.

B.J. Mullens, a 7-foot center, became the fifth freshman to be selected in the opening round of the annual National Basketball Association Draft in the last three seasons when the Dallas Mavericks selected the Columbus, Ohio , native with the 24th pick Thursday.

I have seen the future of Ohio State basketball. He is big. He is strong. And, my God, he just took a rare charge in a summer basketball game! Jared Sullinger is big enough to thrive in college, but might not be big enough to garner NBA attention just yet.

B.J. Mullens has seen the worst and made the best of it. While he was growing up, his family bounced around to a dozen different homes with stops at a homeless shelter in between.

Excitement wasn't exactly on the agenda for Mavericks fans across DFW as they prepared to watch the NBA Draft on Thursday evening.

B.J. Mullens didn't go as high as predraft analysts said, making him a "value pick." After B.J. Mullens was taken with the 24th pick in the NBA draft, Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti said that was about where he thought the 7-foot freshman from Ohio State would go.

Ohio State freshman B.J. Mullens was drafted No. 24 by Dallas tonight, and ESPN reported that he's being traded to Oklahoma City, which swapped the No.

B.J. Mullens the 24th pick in the NBA draft. A A A A A The Mavs came into the draft looking for backups and the 7-footer is certainly a project.

The Mavericks aren't expecting the second coming of Tony Parker with their acquisition of French point guard Rodrigue Beaubois.

Less than an hour before the NBA draft last year, Ohio State coach Thad Matta finished a phone conversation with a league official, walked into a room where his assistants sat and told them that Kosta Koufos would be selected by Indiana with the 11th overall pick.

Jeff Teague thinks he may be the draft's best point guard. That'll work. A few days before the draft, Hawks general manager Rick Sund sat in a conference room down the hall from his office, beaming about the franchise's present and future.