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Ohio State coach Jim Foster spent 11 years at Vanderbilt battling the women's basketball juggernaut just 160 or so miles away that is mighty Tennessee.

He gets to renew old acquaintances again on Saturday when his Buckeyes meet the Lady Vols and coach Pat Summitt in a regional semifinal game in Dayton, Ohio.

It doesn't sound as if he's missed bumping heads with his old nemesis.

Ohio State coach won't be wearing orange in NCAA - FoxNews.com

So the Ohio State coach used to be at Vandy (before my time). Yet one more reason to really enjoy this particular matchup.

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Foster would not be allowed to wear orange

Some light bulletin board material from that article:

“Tennessee is a good team, but I think it’s more Pat Summitt,” she said. “That’s the name that everybody kind of gets a little iffy about. I mean, she’s had a great legacy there. Those players haven’t been there 16 years or 18 years or all the years she’s been there. They definitely have great players, but I don’t think it’s any different than playing any other good team we’ve played against.” Jantel Lavender

Hate to break it to Jantel but being blown out by the Huskies and losing twice to Michigan and Northwestern while only managing to beat MSU Iowa, and PSU from the field of 64 is going to be different from “any other good team” she’s played against.
 
Foster looks at the regional as wide open. (so it seems he’s smoking something or has his eyes wide shut)
“Only 16 teams are left playing, and they’re all very good,” he said. “Whatever opinion people have of who you’re playing, when I look at this regional there’s four pretty good offensive basketball teams and defense is probably going to determine who wins this regional.”
None of Foster’s eight previous Ohio State teams have gone beyond the regional semifinals. Like everyone else, he sees top-ranked and two-time defending champion ESPN’S 5x as the clear front-runner overall in the tournament. UConn is playing in the Philadelphia regional.
Foster listed the Lady Vols along with everyone else behind the guy he wishes he could be.
“Geno’s team as constructed right now has won a couple of national championships in a row and is the team to beat – and Tennessee is in the crowd with us,” he said. “They’re one of the other teams.” Jim ’Geno lite" Foster.

This isn’t the same team that won a couple of National Championships Jim. Dotson isn’t Tina Charles, Faris isn’t Greene and Hartley isn’t Montgomery (although she is quite good)

LIKE EVERYONE ELSE ???? sorry but everyone else does not see things the same way

TENNESSEE is in the crowd with US??? uh NO. Tennessee isn’t in the 9 loss crowd with 6 losses to teams that did not make the tournament. We aren’t in the crowd that got blown out by ESPN’s 5x and we’re definitely not in the crowd that never made it out of a regional semi-final.

Ohio State was beaten NINE times between Dec 11 and Feb 7. How they managed to get a 4 seed with that record is something of a mystery.

by aurabass on Mar 24, 2011 9:49 PM EDT reply actions  

I don't mind him downplaying Tennessee; he's just trying to keep his team from being intimidated out of the gate.

Those are the comments of somebody who’s expecting a loss and hoping to find traction for the upset.

by David Hooper on Mar 24, 2011 9:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

I don't mind it either David

In fact I think it will serve as more motivation for the Lady Vols – if they need any more motivation

by aurabass on Mar 24, 2011 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

excuse my shorthand

ESPN’s 5X is my shorthand for the 5 letter expletive with UC in it’s name that plays 17 miles down the road from ESPCONN’s headquarters in Bristol Connecticut. ESPCONN is the media circus that features Providence grad and Geno lover Doris Burke, Syracuse grad Beth Mowins, Greenwich native Trey Wingo, Upstate NY native Charlie “uconn” Creme, and Stonington resident Graham Hays as it’s major WCBB contributors. The Big East bias is way too obvious.

by aurabass on Mar 24, 2011 9:55 PM EDT reply actions  

Oh, heck. I forgot.

I originally saw this on VolNation. Hat tip to them.

by David Hooper on Mar 24, 2011 10:08 PM EDT reply actions  

Foster refuses to eat the Orange M&M's

Here’s why ‘Geno Lite’ Foster can’t eat those orange M&Ms

Jim “Geno Lite” Foster quote in white on the picture above

This looks like the LADY VOLS in ORANGE over
OSU in Red
Marquette in Yellow
Notre Dame in Green and
ESPN’s 5X in Blue does it not?

by aurabass on Mar 24, 2011 10:34 PM EDT reply actions  

You’ll love the postgame presser from OSU then. (The Tech stuff is first; skip it if you want.) It’s a pdf and opens in a new window.

The thing is, OSU is very fortunate to have won. Tech had 30 more field goal attempts, 6 more rebounds (11 more offensive rebounds), 7 more steals, 10 fewer turnovers, and lost because they had 20 fouls to OSU’s 8. That’s because OSU doesn’t challenge shots aggressively in the interior, so they don’t get many fouls.

But Tech just shot poorly that night. They had a lot of wide open misses.

by David Hooper on Mar 24, 2011 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

David check out this ESPN.CONN preview of OSU vs TN

The Dayton Regional

ESPCONN outdoes itself again with this incredible piece. JUST TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THIS and prepare to be VERY ANGRY .

Dayton Regional
No. 1 seed Tennessee vs. No. 4 Ohio State (ESPN/ESPN3.com, noon ET Saturday)
Six times the Lady Vols have played an opponent in the latter team’s home state in a regional semifinal or final. They’re 3-3 in those games, most recently losing a regional final against Duke in Greensboro, N.C., in 1999 (although six years ago they beat Rutgers in a regional final in Philadelphia, a hop, skip and a toll away from New Jersey).
As far as what happens on the court itself, there are plenty of areas of focus.
• Offensive rebounding: Ohio State is a below-average rebounding team, with one great rebounder in Jantel Lavender. The Buckeyes are in the Sweet 16 and won 24 games to get here, so board work clearly is not a fatal flaw for them. But it’s daunting nonetheless to take a season-long offensive-rebounding deficit into a game against one of the best offensive-rebounding teams in the country this season (and most seasons). Ohio State’s defense might be good enough to knock Tennessee out of the comfort zone that sees the Lady Vols shooting 47 percent from the field this season (sixth in the nation), but can coach Jim Foster’s team keep Glory Johnson, Shekinna Stricklen and others from getting second-chance points? Part of what makes Tennessee so good is its ability to beat you as a perimeter team or an interior team.

• Point poise: Assists, be they flashy or fundamental, are the bread and butter of Samantha Prahalis’ game. But whether Ohio State’s uber-skilled point guard let her shots come to her, as opposed to forcing the issue, seemed to bear a direct correlation with Ohio State’s turnaround this season. In her first 13 games, Prahalis averaged 15.1 field goal attempts per game, including a 7-of-20 performance in a loss at Syracuse and a 2-of-17 performance in a loss against Connecticut (in the Long Island product’s effective hometown of New York City). The Buckeyes went 7-6 in those 13 games, a stretch that concluded with a 64-53 loss at Northwestern. In her next six games, Prahalis might have overcorrected, averaging 10.2 field goal attempts per game, with a third of those coming from beyond the 3-point line. The Buckeyes went 3-3 in that stretch, capped by another loss against Northwestern, this time in Columbus.
But during the 13-game winning streak that accompanies the Buckeyes to Columbus, Prahalis has averaged 11.6 field goal attempts per game, with only about a quarter of them from the 3-point line. More important for Ohio State than its point guard taking a specific number of shots Saturday is seeing her maintain the balance she and the Buckeyes seem to have struck in recent weeks."

WOW ____ aside from an opening section that talks about the Tennessee fan base being supportive by travel offsetting the potential for this to be the equivalent of an OSU home game in DAYTON the entire preview has one sentence that is positive about the Lady Vols ONE FREAKIN SENTENCE.

Prahalis and her NYC roots are mentioned and the BEast Lovers in Bristol did manage to get in a mention of one team in ORANGE – the SYRACUSE team that beat OSU – and their favorite team from 17 miles down the road from Bristol – ESPN.CONN’s 5 letter expletive (UConn)

ARE WE GETTING THE PICTURE NOW? can anyone offer the slightest excuse for this crap from ESPN
This is the major if not only media organization that consistently covers WCBB and their Beast Bias and love for 5X is so totally out of control they can’t write an article about an OSU vs TENNESSEE game without saying more positive about the BEAST that they can say about the LADY VOLS!!

by aurabass on Mar 24, 2011 11:21 PM EDT reply actions  

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