Buckeyes and Sabermetrics

Buckeyes and Sabermetrics

Celebrate Woody Hayes Month
Born February 14, 1913
Died March 12, 1987

OSU 14, um 3...back-to-back-to-back B10 Champs!

2007 B10 Tournament Champs

Back-to-back Big Ten Champs!

OSU 42, um 39...Big Ten Champs

FIESTA!

Ohio Downs M*CH*G*N--Big Ten Champions

BUCKS TROUNCE M*CH*G*N

2002 National Champions!

Ohio State 31, Miami 24 (2OT)

The greatest game in the history of football is a Buckeye victory!

O-H-I-O

OHIO STATE 14, michigan 9!

FIESTA BOWL BOUND!

Ohio State will play in the BCS Championship Game for the first time, and we will go for our first national championship since 1996, and our third century with a national title.

OSU Basketball Championships

The OSU basketball team is traditionally listed as having one title, in 1960 where we won the NCAA tournament. But this is just another example of anti-Ohio bias in polling and research of previous seasons, just as we saw in football. We should celebrate this list of National Basketball Championships:

1906...Darmouth is the listed champs at 16-2, but OSU went 9-1
1910...The listed national champ, Columbia, went 11-1, same as OSU
1925...Princeton went 21-2, OSU 14-2. The fine book, Buckeye Basketball(the author's name escapes me), makes the case that this team was deserving of the title.
1933...Kentucky, 20-3 is listed as the champs. OSU went 17-3
1950...OSU was defeated by CCNY in the regional final, a team that would later be disgraced by a gambling scandal. There were ticky-tack fouls against the Bucks and lots of betting on odd things going on in the lobby(you could bet the odds on Dick Schnittker fouling out for instance). OSU was 21-3 and ranked #2 before the tournament. Bradley, the #1 team, was also screwed over by CCNY, in the championship game. OSU or Bradley deserves this title...not the CCNY twerps.
1960...No one will debate this.