Ohio State Buckeyes NCAA Basketball News

Dallas Lauderdale was cleared medically to practice yesterday and will be available to play when the Ohio State men's basketball team opens its season Thursday night against Delaware State in St.

Badgers will send off 16 seniors Saturday afternoon. With no Big Ten games left, Wisconsin will try to pad its record before the postseason.

Evan Turner picked up last week where he left off last season in the National Invitation Tournament, filling almost every column in the box score in the Ohio State men's basketball team's exhibition victory ...

Thirteen of the last 20 winners of the NIT have made the NCAA tournament the following season.

A year ago, Evan Turner had no idea about the University of Findlay, no appreciation for how good a basketball program it has.

Jeremie Simmons starts, but Anthony Crater is equally impressive in exhibition opener in Columbus.

Thad Matta is like the director of a long-running, highly successful Broadway show - his cast members excel and then move on to more lucrative ventures, so he has to keep capable replacements in the pipeline.

Is it a bad sign for the Ohio State basketball program that it has no recruits in the 2009 class? Can UCLA continue to produce guards who get drafted in the first round? Which prospects in the 2009 class would ...

Ohio State's five newcomers combined for 46 points as the Buckeyes beat Walsh University, 90-63, Thursday night in their only exhibition game of the season.

Christian Lautenschleger /The Lantern Ohio State sophomore guards Evan Turner , Jon Diebler and junior forward David Lighty address the local media yesterday.

For the third straight year, Ohio State men's basketball coach Thad Matta has a collection of players who are primarily first- and second-year players.

I asked a trusted NBA scout to name the American lottery picks he finds most intriguing as the college season opens next week.

There are now just two one-loss teams in the Big Ten with Minnesota's loss to Northwestern, and they are Michigan State and Ohio State.

Zisis Sarikopoulos had little time to make a move after Alabama-Birmingham released him from his basketball scholarship in late May.

The Ohio State women's basketball team will begin its season next week with a little less oomph in its retooled engine.

Ohio State junior college transfer Nikola Kecman must sit out the first 12 games of the season after playing for a Serbian team that included professional players.

ATLANTADerrick Rose and Michael Beasley are in the very early stage of their NBA careers, and players such as Oklahoma's Blake Griffin and Ohio State's B.J. Mullens are still in the midst of conditioning drills ...

And now we get to the six BCS-affiliated leagues. The power leagues. The Big Six.