Friday's Buckeye Bits

Good Friday morning, Buckeye Nation! As we continue to slog our way through another monsoon season here in Seattle Columbus, we inch closer to what has become quite the eagerly awaited holiday around these parts.

No, Ned Ryerson, the day before that...National Signing Day! No new recruits have been picked up in the last day or so, but it doesn't mean that Coach Meyer and his staff haven't been out pounding the pavement.

Bill Sheridan Joins The Crew.  As Ian told you yesterday, Bill Sheridan is the Buckeye's newest coach. Likely leading the DB corps to replace the departed Taver Johnson, Sheridan most recently worked under Tony Sparano with the Miami Dolphins. He did work under Lloyd Carr in Michigan for a few seasons. Let's hope that he gets a new wardrobe quickly.

Women's B-Ball Dominating. The Buckeye women's team did a number on some Hoosiers last night, specifically the number 18. 18 point margin of victory. 18 points for Samantha Prahalis, 18 for Tayler Hill--all in the second half. Good thing her scoring came alive, as the Bucks were down by one at the half.

Friday's Buckeye Bits

Good Friday morning, everybody! It's been a heck of a first week with Buckeye Bits, and the first week of the off-season comes to a close today as well. Football may be over, but there is still plenty of Ohio State sports to watch.

Sunday, the men's basketball team tips at 4:30 against the Hoosiers at the corner of Lane and Olentangy. Vengeance shall be the word of the day, as the Buckeyes lost in Bloomington, as well as earlier this week in Champaign. Of course, last night the Hoosiers were shocked by Minnesota, 77-74. If you aren't going to the game, watch it on CBS.

If you like your Buckeye sports a bit colder and bloodier, the Puckeyes will face off against Michigan at 7:30 Friday at the Schott, and again Sunday at 5:05. The Sunday matchup is in Cleveland, in the Frozen Diamond Faceoff in the Indians' Progressive Field. Friday's game will be shown on the Big Ten Network, and the big game Sunday will be on Fox Sports Ohio. Jeff Svoboda has an excellent writeup on Buckeye Sports Bulletin. No word if Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn will be in attendance.

Some great news sponsored by Purdue losing.

Well, the day ended with 1 of 2 moments that could have been won. First, the Michigan State-Purdue game was getting good, with Kalin Lucas taking absolute control of the game near the ending. By the time there was about 30-40 seconds on the clock, the Purdue coach just gave up trying to foul the slipprey Spartans. The game was fast paced, but way too many shots were fired, and missed. Although the Boilermakers were without Robbie Hummel, their star, they had plenty of oppruitunites to win the game. The loss snapped the Boilermakers' 10-game winning streak, and came while their other two stars -- E'Twaun Moore and JaJuan Johnson -- combined to go 7 for 27 from the field. Purdue had a legitamant shot at being the new number 1 team in America, but fell short when it counted. Michigan State's win over Purdue put the Big Ten leaders in a 3-way tie once again, with Purdue, Ohio State, and Michigan State. No matter what happens to MSU and Purdue at this point, if Ohio State beats Illinois, they will win the Big Ten outright. It will also be the second time that the football, men's basketball, and women's basketball took the outright Big Ten title in the same year. The last time, was in 2006.

Finally, in what will go down as one of the best Olympic games in Hockey of all time, Canada prevailed winners, but that doesn't mean the U.S. didn't give it their all, even in the end. Canada's collection of all-stars held off a young, desperate U.S. team that had beaten it a week ago and, after staging a furious comeback from down 2-0 on goals by Jonathan Toews and Corey Perry, almost beat the Canadians again.

With Canada less than a minute away from celebrating the gold medal, Zach Parise tied it with Miller off the ice for an extra attacker. The crowd in Vancouver was not happy, to say the least. In overtime, It was back and forth, and back and forth, as the collosal powers met again in the gold medal round. It ended up with Sidney Crosby pulling a sweet wrist shot into the goal for the win, and gold for Canada. USA fans shouldn't be too upset, as our boys played real hard, and almost won it at the end. Congrats to a great season in the Olympic prespective.