Since I've been at Ohio State, the three major varsity sports -- football and men's & women's basketball -- have beaten the University of Michigan like there's no tomorrow. This afternoon was no different. The #1 Ohio State men's basketball team came from behind to win its 14th consecutive game, this time over Michigan 65-61 in front of a loud and supportive crowd in Ann Arbor to finish 15-1 in conference play (the lone loss coming Jan. 9 at Wisconsin) and with a final regular season record of 27-3. The other two losses were at North Carolina (without then-injured superstar center Greg Oden) and at Florida (in one of Oden's first games back).
The question of Ohio State's recent sporting dominance over UM is starting to pop up in local indie newspapers -- "Has this gotten old yet? CAN this ever get old?" Both can be summed up quite succinctly: No. During the '90s Michigan owned OSU in football, and until the latter part of the decade the same could be said for men's basketball as well. Now the pendulum is in full swing back toward Columbus, and most sports fans in town couldn't be happier.
It would be ludicrous to expect such good fortune to last forever (next year's football game, in addition to be played in Ann Arbor, will be OSU's first without Wolverine-killer QB Troy Smith since 2003 [perhaps not so ironically, the year of Ohio State's last loss to Michigan]), but rest assured the entire state is enjoying what has been a long time in the making.
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Let's go BUCKEYES! whistle whistle whistle.
We do have "The Program," after all. And you.
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