Right: Teabagged – Ohio State’s Dallas Lauderdale dunks over Iowa’s Matt Gatens. (AP Photo)

If you happen to tune into last night’s game a little late, in fact, if you missed most of it before reclining back into your easy chair to witness the final five minutes of Ohio State’s 65-57 win over Iowa, it’s a good thing because you didn’t miss much.

With 4:46 remaining to play in the contest, the Hawkeyes led 50-45 after a three-pointer by Eric May. The five-point advantage Iowa had then was the same cushion they enjoyed when both teams headed into the locker room at hafltime, 25-20, so things didn’t look good for the Buckeyes.

Shortly thereafter, though, as if a big alarm clock rang out, Ohio State woke up and started playing basketball.

On the Buckeyes next possession, David Lighty rung up a deep three to bring the Buckeyes closer, and after a pair of 30-second timeouts, Dallas Lauderdale scored in the paint to tie the game at 50-all with 3:36 to go.
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A rare sight, a sellout crowd at Value City Arena watching Ohio State’s men’s basketball team.

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For many years, the city of Columbus lacked a large arena that most other cities of similar size or larger had to house their professional and collegiate sports teams as well as a venue for concerts, trade shows and conventions.

Ohio State’s men’s basketball team had several homes, both on and off-campus, since their beginnings in 1899. The first was the OSU Armory located where the Wexner Center for the Arts is now. The Armory sat approximately 2,000 fans and it was used until 1919.

Columbus’ first arena, the Ohio Expo Center, better known as the Fairgrounds Coliseum was built in 1918 and is located one mile east of campus. The Coliseum currently seats about 6,800 fans, though during the final season of Buckeye basketball, crowds of more than 8,000 were routine. It was the home for the men’s basketball team from 1920 until 1942, then again from 1946 until the construction of OSU’s new on-campus arena was completed in 1956. Click here to read more >>

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Right: Junior winger Patrick Schafer from Hilliard, Ohio, scored the game-winner vs. Michigan State, Saturday night.(File Photo)

The Ohio State men’s hockey team earned a split at the Munn Ice Arena in E. Lansing this weekend as the Buckeyes defeated No. 10 Michigan State, 4-2, Saturday night.

The game was tied 1-1 entering the third and just 37 seconds into the period with the Buckeyes on the man-advantage, Zac Dalpe lit the lamp for his 13th goal of the season on a wrist shot from the slot that went top-shelf. Matt Bartkowski and Dustin Carlson assisted on the power play goal.

The Spartans, though, got the equalizer later in the frame at the 10:01 mark when Dustin Gazley netted his eight of the year when he put back in the rebound of a Daultan Leveille shot. Torey Krug also assisted on the goal that tied the game at 2-all.

It appeared that both teams were content on taking the game into overtime until C.J. Severyn got the puck to Patrick Schafer, who circled around the net and scored on a wraparound goal through the five-hole as he dove head-first onto the ice with 1:07 remaining.
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