Newly crowned Maui Champs Duke now ranked # 3 will travel to Columbus, Ohio to take on # 2 Ohio State on Tuesday night. Ohio State is 6-0 in Thad Matta's 8 year at the helm of the Buckeyes. Ohio State is coming off a 34-3 season in 2010-2011.
The Buckeyes are a deep team that has averaged playing 11 players better than 10 minutes in their first 6 games.
Here are the starters and key reserves.
6-9 Soph. Jared Sullinger 18.8 points, 10.7 rebounds
6-6 Sr. William Buford 17.7 pts, 4.2 rebs.
6-7 Soph. Deshaun Thomas 12.3 pts, 3.7 rebs.
6-2 Soph. Aaron Craft 9.2 pts, 5.5 assists
6-4 Soph. Lenzelle Smith Jr. 5.8 pts, 4.8 rebs.
6-6 Soph. J.D. Weatherspoon 5.6 pts.
6-8 Jr. Evan Ravenel 5.3 pts.
6-4 Soph. Jordan Sibert 3.7 pts.
6-7 Fr. Sam Thompson 3.5 pts.
6-1 Fr. Shannon Scott 2.8 pts.
6-11 Fr. Amir Williams 1.6 pts.
The Buckeyes are averaging 85.2 points a game and are giving up 54.7. They are shooting 51.5% from the field and allowing 37.4 %. The Buckeyes are shooting 31.0% from three on 4.5 made per game and are allowing 32.8 on 6.7 made. They are out rebounding their opponents by 9.2 per game and are committing 11.5 turnovers, while forcing 20.7.
Notes: Duke is 11-1 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. The game is at the Schottenstein Center which hold 18,809 for basetball. The game is scheduled for 9:30 and will be televised on ESPN.






