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Who has the best recruiting class for 2006?(COUNTERPOINTS)
Ohio State
One player makes all the difference
Had Ohio State signed Greg Oden--and only Oden--I still might be making the argument the Buckeyes recruited the nation's best class.
Ohio State did not just get the No. 1 player for 2006. Oden, a 7-0 center from Lawrence North High in Indianapolis, will be the most dominant player to enter college since Shaquille O'Neal arrived at LSU 16 years ago.
That's the difference here. North Carolina's boatload of elite prospects might form a championship team. And Ohio State wouldn't have done badly just with Daequan Cook, David Lighty and Mike Conley. But Oden is a once-in-a-generation player.
That has been my stance all along: Russell, Chamberlain, Jabbar, Walton, Ewing, O'Neal ... Oden. He belongs in that lineage. Which is why no one recruited better than Ohio State this year.--Mike DeCourcy
BUCKEYES RECRUITS (Rivals.com ranking)
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- Newspaper article from: High Point Enterprise (High Point, NC) November 30, 2006 700+ words
...playing at offensively." Ohio State shot nearly 55 percent...as 10 points before the Tar Heels scrapped back to within...straight 3-pointers to help Ohio State turn a six-point deficit...64-58 lead. But the Tar Heels, who shot 66 percent...
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...consecutive season. The Tar Heels did so by overcoming...third-ranked Ohio State from three days...with only four Tar Heels on the court...seemed to rouse the Tar Heels (6-1) some...Wright said. "The Ohio State game was up and...