Ohio State Buckeyes NCAA Basketball News

If Saint Mary's or Creighton complains about a snub from the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in two years, Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith will answer for it.

The Akron 2009-10 men's basketball schedule, while not yet official, seems to be nearly set in the debut season for 7-foot recruit Zeke Marshall, ranked as one of the nation's top centers in the incoming freshman class.

The 13 scholarships the Ohio State men's basketball team has available for the 2010-11 season are spoken for.

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OKLAHOMA CITY B.J. Mullens has seen the worst and made the best of it. While he was growing up, his family bounced around to a dozen different homes with stops at a homeless shelter in between.

Gene Smith didn't know he'd be nominated by his peers on the NCAA Division I men's basketball committee to serve as its chairman for the 2010-11 season.

Evan Turner is scheduled to play for the United States in the World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia.

Where will Ohio State's B.J. Mullens and North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough get drafted? AP I'd draft this guy ... North Carolina senior Tyler Hansbrough vs.

Despite receiving double-digit scoring efforts from four players, the 2009 USA Men's World University Games Team was defeated 98-82 by host Serbia in the 2009 Serbia International Invitational on Sunday night in Belgrade.

Ohio State freshman B.J. Mullens was drafted No. 24 by Dallas tonight, and ESPN reported that he's being traded to Oklahoma City, which swapped the No.

The Mavericks aren't expecting the second coming of Tony Parker with their acquisition of French point guard Rodrigue Beaubois.

Less than an hour before the NBA draft last year, Ohio State coach Thad Matta finished a phone conversation with a league official, walked into a room where his assistants sat and told them that Kosta Koufos would be selected by Indiana with the 11th overall pick.

Jeff Teague thinks he may be the draft's best point guard. That'll work. A few days before the draft, Hawks general manager Rick Sund sat in a conference room down the hall from his office, beaming about the franchise's present and future.

The Dallas Mavericks have a new weapon in their fight against Western Conference point guards: Rodrigue Beaubois, a long, lean athlete first discovered by an NBA player on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, then seasoned with three years of pro experience in France.

The Dallas Mavericks acquired guard Rodrigue Beaubois and a future second-round pick from the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for the Mavericks' 24th overall selection B.J. Mullens.

After missing his first couple of shots from the elbows of the free-throw line, 7-foot B.J. Mullens knocked down seven consecutive to end a recent predraft workout with the Washington Wizards.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - John Wooden won 10 NCAA championships at UCLA by stockpiling incredible talent and developing it.

Former Indiana and Bowling Green coach Dan Dakich remains as dialed in as any expert evaluating college talent.

As far as anybody knows, Blake Griffin won't bring a rabbit's foot with him to Thursday's NBA draft.

After conducting workouts which included approximately 50 prospects, the Bulls were hoping to bring back three forwards for another Berto Center session before the Thursday draft.