Right: Gordon Hayward, a 6-foot-8 sophomore swingman, leads the Bulldogs in scoring and rebounding. (AP Photo)

The 13th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes travel to Indianapolis to take on No. 22 Butler at Hinkle Fieldhouse, Saturday afternoon. Tip-off is scheduled for 12:03 p.m. ET, and the game will be televised on ESPN with Sean McDonough and Jay Bilas.

As always, you can hear the game all across the state on the 60-station Ohio State Buckeyes Radio Network with “Big Daddy” Paul Keels and former Buckeye Ron Stokes. WBNS outlets 97.1 FM and 1460 AM are the flagship stations in Columbus.

Ohio State, though, will be without arguably the nation’s best player as Evan Turner is out for at least seven more weeks with a transverse process fracture on the second and third lumbar vertebra of his spine. He suffered the injury on a dunk attempt last Saturday against Eastern Michigan. Click here to read more >>

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Right: The 36th President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon, enjoyed bowling while he was running the country and trying to cover up the Watergate scandal. Not sure if he would like today’s college football bowl system. (Nixon Library Photo)

“Playoffs?! Don’t talk about playoffs! Are you kidding me? Playoffs?!”

While the famous quote above was once uttered by former Indianapolis Colts’ head coach Jim Mora Sr., it’s also the sentiment echoed by the vast majority of university presidents across the nation whose institutions compete as one of the 120 members of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A.

Wednesday on Capitol Hill, H.R. 390, a bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, approved legislation that states it is “to prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, the promotion, marketing, and advertising of any post-season NCAA Division I football game as a national championship game unless such game is the culmination of a fair and equitable playoff system.” Click here to read more >>

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