Quick! Get it while you can: current OSU basketball wiki page
February 22nd, 2021 at 10:49 PM ^
? Revel in the win - always up for this stuff!
February 22nd, 2021 at 10:51 PM ^
Note: I did not write that information in. I was looking up who the OSU bball coach in the 90s was (Randy Ayers) and came across this.
February 23rd, 2021 at 12:25 AM ^
That's your story and you are sticking to it. I get it. :-)
February 22nd, 2021 at 10:53 PM ^
If it’s on the internet it must be true.
February 23rd, 2021 at 12:26 PM ^
In spite of Abraham Lincoln's warnings!
February 22nd, 2021 at 10:57 PM ^
Smallest of small dick energy lmao - this is literally the first thing on the page
February 22nd, 2021 at 11:00 PM ^
Alright question for the older MGoBloggers - I’m a guy in my mid-twenties so in my experience Michigan State is the only rival in basketball as far as I’m concerned. I wasn’t around for for the Steve Fisher days and before that - how legit is the Michigan-Ohio State basketball rivalry?
February 22nd, 2021 at 11:09 PM ^
I've been following M basketball since the mid 70's. Staee has been the main rival in basketball although except for a couple of years with Magic Johnson they were nothing special until Mateen Cleaves took the ride in the SUV. We used to recruit against them more heavily for in-state recruits.
Back then Indiana was the team to beat in the conference so there was sort of a rivalry with them but it was probably more like the rivalry Rutger has with us. We could never beat them at Assembly Hall.
OSU has been a rival but more because of a carry over from the football rivalry. They usually field a good team and there have been some good games.
It would be interesting to hear from someone who remembers to championship OSU teams from the early 60's and the Cazzie Russell teams from the mid 60's.
Also back then basketball was not the same as football. The games were rarely televised and only a maximum of two teams per conference made the Big Dance. I remember listening to the games on radio.
February 22nd, 2021 at 11:51 PM ^
What's crazy is that Indiana has the most NCAAT titles but Purdue is the one school that has a winning record against everyone else (if you subtract o$u wins they vacated but PU counts as losses) and the most conference titles.
That's why winning in March (and April) matters. Nobody realizes Purdue is the proverbial B1G basketball king of the hill.
February 23rd, 2021 at 12:02 AM ^
I wonder if Purdue even knows that...
February 23rd, 2021 at 7:34 AM ^
Oh, my daughter, Purdue grad-from her Brian Cardinal hero days, knows and believes it.
February 23rd, 2021 at 8:00 AM ^
Was she there for the first half or second half of Brian Cardinal's career?
February 23rd, 2021 at 9:47 AM ^
He's the original Robbie Hummel
February 23rd, 2021 at 12:55 AM ^
Actually in the 60s, only one team in the Big Ten made the NCAA’s. In 70-71, Michigan went 12-2 in the conference, and didn’t go to the NCAA’s. The only Big Ten rep was OSU who went 13-1. Michigan and OSU split their two games. The difference was a Michigan loss at Indiana. If memory serves, OSU didn’t play at Indiana. The Michigan Wilmorines (homage to Henry Wilmore) started the season with losses at #5 ND, #3 Kentucky, and Duke. Then after four wins, they lost at Hawaii in a holiday tourney. Then Michigan won nine straight (including eight conference games) before consecutive losses to OSU and the Hoosiers. They won their next four games plus an opening round NIT game before losing to Georgia Tech.
February 23rd, 2021 at 6:18 AM ^
It's amazing how much high end talent the state of Michigan used to produce. Not so much anymore -- guess it makes sense as my hometown has 60% fewer high school students now than it did 40 years ago which is not out of the ordinary in the state.
February 23rd, 2021 at 1:41 PM ^
I can't remember the last time I saw a school being built. But they are tearing them down left and right. They tore the one near my house down a decade ago and still havent even replaced it with anything, just left an empty field.
February 23rd, 2021 at 12:53 AM ^
Looking at the last 50 years or so, Michigan's top rivalries have been:
1. MSU
2. Indiana
3. Illinois
OSU and Purdue would contend for 4th.
February 23rd, 2021 at 6:43 AM ^
I was going to point out the Illinois rivalry . Those Lou Henson teams were pretty good and the NC season included two regular season losses and a tourny win against the Illini
February 23rd, 2021 at 1:14 AM ^
I just remember following Michigan football when I turned 8 before the '71 season. It took a while longer to get interested in M-basketball. The 76 season got me interested. I remember we almost got knocked out of the tournament by Wichita State. This game was not on television but I remember listening on the radio and some guy on WSU named Cheese almost beat us, but after that we played well until the championship game where IU beat us fairly handily. Phil Hubbard was a great player.
February 23rd, 2021 at 6:33 AM ^
That game was on television, Ricky Green and Steve Grote was our backcourt! We were great that year! Couldn’t stop the halls of calls though!!!
February 23rd, 2021 at 7:09 AM ^
I’m almost 43 so I consider them a rival. I hated them in the 90’s with Funderburke and company. MSU will probably always be our biggest hoops rivalry though. When I was growing up Indiana had UK as their biggest rival. Not sure why or how that series died.
February 23rd, 2021 at 10:22 AM ^
Same here, I hated OSU back in the early '90s. They only had a couple of good seasons under Randy Ayers, but those early 90s teams with Funderburke and Jimmy Jackson were annoyingly good. I loved watching the Fab Five beat #1 seed OSU in the Regional Finals in '92.
February 22nd, 2021 at 11:32 PM ^
Indiana and MSU are our only legitimate basketball rivals.
Hell, in basketball, I'd consider Duke more of a rival than OSU.
February 23rd, 2021 at 3:41 PM ^
Your last sentence validates the raw definition of a rival in so that you'd consider Duke more of a rival. It only takes one or more persons or group to declare or "feel like" a rival. There's no vote or manual to reference it. It's a silly argument.
February 23rd, 2021 at 11:25 AM ^
I'm not sure it's really a "classic rivalry" - there have been some memorable games when both teams were good, but you could say that about a lot other matchups. In between the Fab Five era and the Burke/Craft years, there weren't too many notable games with them, and the last few years' games (prior to Sunday) don't really stand out in my mind, either.
Last year's game at Crisler was effectively decided by an awful call on Simpson in the last minute (a technical for grabbing a player's jersey while trying to break his fall) but I had completely forgotten about it until a few days ago. If that had happened against Sparty, I certainly wouldn't have forgotten it.
February 22nd, 2021 at 11:01 PM ^
Just fixed a typo. "Lead" should be "Led" unless we are talking about the water in Flint.
February 22nd, 2021 at 11:25 PM ^
You Mus sure can party.
February 22nd, 2021 at 11:44 PM ^
I believe Havlicek was a Buckeye. I could be wrong.
February 23rd, 2021 at 6:11 AM ^
You are not wrong. He was on the 1960 national championship team with Jerry Lucas and Robert Montgomery Knight.
February 23rd, 2021 at 5:29 AM ^
I find most of these wiki owns fairly boring. But this is an exception. Classic
February 23rd, 2021 at 7:29 AM ^
Haha...it's still there as of now
February 23rd, 2021 at 9:02 AM ^
Lovely
February 23rd, 2021 at 10:34 AM ^
The key to subverting wikipedia is to keep it on the down low. I personally know of several pieces of misinformation on wikipedia that have survived well over a decade. One of them was quoted in a radio interview. It's fascinating to see total bullshit be so quickly accepted as fact. They used to say "tell a lie long enough and often enough and it becomes fact"; that's still true, or just put it on wikipedia.
February 23rd, 2021 at 11:33 AM ^
Should have left it at "Hunter Dickinson Arena." That would have been subtle yet effective. The other stuff is piling on.
February 23rd, 2021 at 11:43 AM ^
13 hours later, it's still there. Their basketball fanbase is lame.
February 23rd, 2021 at 12:12 PM ^
Since Sunday, I've had two ohio state fans approach me and comment how good that game was, that even though they lost, it was a great win for Michigan. What is this world we are in? Seems like an alternate dimension??