Postgame Notes From No. 19/16 Ohio State vs. No. 14/15 Michigan State – Ohio State Buckeyes
1/15/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 15, 2006
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Attendance: 18,500 (sold out) This is the 105th meetingall-time between Ohio State and Michigan State. MSU owns theoverall series lead with a record of 59-46. Ohio State is 32-20 ingames played in Columbus and 2-4 vs. Michigan State at Value CityArena. The Buckeyes are 677-649 vs. the current members of the BigTen Conference. Ohio State, ranked No. 19 in by the AssociatedPress and No. 16 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll, is 16-12 whenplaying as a ranked team vs. the Spartans. When both teams areranked, OSU is 3-6. With all 18,500 seats are filled at Value CityArena, the Buckeyes move to 23-7 in sold-out games at VCA. Thatrecord includes a 19-5 mark vs. Big Ten opponents and a 9-1 recordvs. ranked conference foes. Ohio State is 15-8 overall vs. rankedteams at Value City Arena. When ranked Big Ten opponents take thecourt at VCA, OSU is 15-5. This is the first double-overtime gamein the history of Value City Arena. The last double-overtime gamefor Ohio State was exactly one year ago, Jan. 15, 2005, at LSU. TheBuckeyes lost that game 113-101. The last double-overtime game athome for Ohio State was Feb. 17, 1991, a 97-95 win over Indiana inSt. John Arena. OSU is 6-5 all-time in double-overtime games. Thisis the second game Ohio State has gone into overtime this season.The Buckeyes also went into overtime against Butler Nov. 22,winning by a final of 79-69. It is the fourth overtime game in thehistory of Value City Arena. Ohio State is 36-52 overall inovertime games. The Buckeyes are 18-20 in overtime games at home.This is the first loss at home for the Buckeyes this season. OSU is100-23 at Value City Arena since its opening in the 1998-99 season.The Buckeyes held Michigan State scoreless the final 7:20 of thesecond half and 2:30 into the first overtime for a total scoringdrought of 9:50. Senior center Terence Dials scored at 3:58 in thefirst overtime to give the Buckeyes a 48-46 lead. It was the firstlead for OSU since 16:28 of the first half when the Buckeyes led5-4. Dials led the team with 19 points and 10 rebounds for hisfirst double-double this season and 11th overall in his career.Dials played in a career-high 48 of 50 total minutes. Senior guardJ.J. Sullinger grabbed seven rebounds in the game. He needs justtwo more rebounds to reach the 500-rebound plateau. Sullinger alsohad one steal to reach the 100-steal career mark. Dials scored 19points to increase his career total to 1,287. He now ranks 22ndall-time in career scoring, moving past Clark Kellogg (1980-82)with 1,285. Kellogg was the expert analyst for CBS for thetelevision broadcast of the game. Sophomore guard Jamar Butlergrabbed a career-high seven rebounds. Senior forward Matt Sylvesterscored a season-high 17 points and was 4-for-6 from beyond the arcfor a new career-high in 3-pointers attempted and made.
