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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Michael Redd and Ohio State
muscled their way past Indiana.
Redd scored a season-high 28 points, including five free throws
in the final two minutes, as the No. 7 Buckeyes held off the No. 10
Hoosiers 82-71 in their foul-plagued Big Ten showdown.
|  | | Indiana's A.J. Guyton passes to teammate Larry Richardson as Ohio State's Doylan Robinson defends. |
Redd added 10 rebounds. George Reese also had a double-double
for Ohio State with 11 points and 10 rebounds.
The 6-foot-6 Redd said he felt confident no matter who Indiana used to defend him..
"That's the confidence I have," said Redd, who was 8-for-16 from the field and hit 11-of-15 free throws.
Jeffrey Newton, 6-9, and Dane Fife, 6-4, guarded Redd most of the game.
"Those were great matchups for me. Newton ... I can get past
him. Fife is too small. I can post him up or shoot over him," Redd
said.
Officials called 58 personals with four Buckeyes and two Indiana
players fouling out. The teams combined to shoot 87 free throws and
misses proved costly to the Hoosiers, who went into the game
leading the Big Ten in free throw accuracy.
Indiana, which was shooting nearly 90 percent, missed 17 of 44
attempts. Kirk Haston, an 80 percent shooter, was 3-for-11.
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Fumes on Buckeyes' plane
make crew members ill
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Crew members on a chartered plane carrying
the Ohio State men's basketball team had to be taken to a hospital
Saturday night after complaining fumes in the cabin made them ill,
an airport spokesman said.
No players or coaches were affected, said David Whitaker,
spokesman for Port Columbus International Airport.
The seventh-ranked Buckeyes were returning from Bloomington,
Ind., where they beat No. 10 Indiana 82-71 Saturday.
Before landing, the plane's crew called the airport and
requested that emergency crews stand by, Whitaker said.
The plane landed safely, but some of crew members complained of
being ill and were transported to Mount Carmel East Hospital, he
said.
A nursing supervisor at the hospital said she was not aware of
any crew members being treated there.
Whitaker did not know how many people were on the plane, but
said it seated 50 passengers.
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"We kept attacking. We knew we couldn't slack off," Redd said.
"In the first half they shot like 30 (26) free throws. In the
second half the roles were totally turned around. We were in the
bonus for most of the second half, and coach kept telling us to
keep attacking, that you will get fouls, get to the rim, and it
happened."
A.J. Guyton led Indiana with 27 points, becoming the fifth
player in school history to score 2,000 points. He finished the
game with 2,007.
Guyton matched his career high of 11 free throws in 12 attempts.
However, he had only one point in the final 13 minutes as fatigue
appeared to set in.
"We just played him physical. We shadowed him the whole game
and the second half I think it wore him down," Redd said.
The victory boosted Ohio State (18-5, 9-3 Big Ten) in its bid to
end Michigan State's run for a third consecutive conference
championship.
"This is an incredible win for our guys," said Ohio State
coach Jim O'Brien, whose team had lost to Michigan State 83-72 on
Tuesday. "We thought we really needed to get something back after
a disappointing loss at home. In my mind, I thought this game had a
lot of very important implications."
The Spartans lead second-place Purdue by a half-game and Ohio
State took over sole possession of third place, one game behind
Michigan State with four to play.
Indiana (18-5, 8-4) dropped into fourth place, two games behind
the leader.
"We did a great job of being physical, being aggressive all
night long," Redd said. "I love it when our backs are to the
wall. ... It brings the best out of you."
"Ohio State was the best team that we've played this year. We
played hard, really scrapped and scraped," Indiana coach Bob
Knight said. "The difference, I think from our standpoint is we
played a 30 minute game and Ohio State played a 40 minute game. ... They really beat us pretty good in the last 10 minutes."
A 3-pointer by Guyton gave Indiana its biggest lead of the game
at 52-45 with 13:32 to play. Ohio State charged back to tie it at
53 on a putback off an offensive rebound by Ken Johnson.
Three consecutive 3-pointers by Brent Darby, who made all four
of his shots from behind the arc, gave Ohio State a 69-63 lead. The
Buckeyes scored their final 11 points on free throws.
Scoonie Penn contributed 15 points to the victory.
Redd had hit a jumper to put the Buckeyes ahead for good at
55-53 and both teams did most of their scoring on free throws in
the final 10 minutes.
Indiana overcame an early poor-shooting effort to trail 36-35 at
halftime. The Hoosiers hit just one of their first eight shots from
the field and the only five of the first 12 free throws.
Ohio State was whistled for a season-high 30 fouls and the 28
fouls by Indiana also was a season-high.
The loss was the first in conference play at home for Indiana,
which has lost three straight against the Buckeyes. The victory in
Assembly Hall was only the second in nine trips for Ohio State.
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