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Facing match point, the team's fate is on your shoulders, and you need to hit a second serve to stay alive.

For the "Freshman Impact" series, Insider's college basketball and recruiting experts will be teaming up to examine how 15 of the nation's best recruiting classes will fit in with their teams in the 2013-14 season.

The fifth-seeded Ohio State men's tennis team took No. 1 UCLA to the brink but fell maddeningly short in an NCAA Division I semifinal match today in Urbana, Ill.

On one end of the spectrum, you have a school like New Mexico that lost its coach to UCLA a mere days after he signed a 10-year contract, while on the other end a school like Kentucky spent the spring months finalizing the commitments from approximately 300 5-star recruits.

The middle of the offseason has reached a midpoint, and that means summer college football previews are right around the corner.

However, against the odds, the program has more than just rebounded, emerging from the ashes of their 2010 improper benefits scandal to become one of the top contenders for the BCS national title in 2013.

Nearly six years after he was the No. 1 pick in the 2007 NBA draft, unrestricted free agent center Greg Oden continues to attempt a comeback from a series of knee injuries that led to his release by the Blazers in 2012.

Cornell spent most of the men's lacrosse season ranked in the top five but entered the NCAA tournament unseeded.

The man whose 3-pointer against Iowa State in this season's NCAA Tournament secured the Ohio State men's basketball team's place in the Sweet 16 will be one of five current or former Buckeyes who will be hoping to leave a lasting impact in Mount Vernon.

Ohio State advanced to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA tennis championships for the ninth time in school history with a 4-0 victory over No.

However, against the odds, the program has more than just rebounded, emerging from the ashes of their 2010 improper benefits scandal to become one of the top contenders for the BCS national title in 2013.

Deshaun Thomas or no Deshaun Thomas, the goals of the Ohio State basketball team heading into the 2013-14 season remain the same - a Big Ten regular-season championship, a Big Ten tournament title and a run to the Final Four.

'The college tennis public knows we're a good, solid squad,' said hard-nosed coach Ty Tucker, a former player for the Buckeyes who is a native of Zanesville.

Michigan's Trey Burke, right, and teammate Tim Hardaway Jr. walk down the court during the second half of their NCAA Final Four semifinal game against Syracuse The Big Ten Conference might be losing a handful of high-profile players to early entry in the NBA draft and dozens more to graduation, but it shouldn't stop business as usual for the ... (more)

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Meyer has already stated he believes Miller can be better Tim Tebow , one of his former players and a Heisman Trophy winner, so the comparisons between the two are fair game heading into the 2013 season.

After serving out their one-year NCAA-sanctioned postseason ban, the Buckeyes are now eligible to play in the Big Ten Championship and beyond.

As rookie camp gets underway, the 2013 New York Giants NFL draft class is beginning to develop and learn the fundamentals of the team's playbook.

Social media seems to have beaten Kevin McGuff to the punch in announcing the first member of his coaching staff at Ohio State.

At the same time, though, coming off a 12-0 campaign last year will earn the A-game from every scheduled opponent.