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Thursday, November 09, 2006
The Ohio State men's basketball team is a little undersized by Big Ten standards. That will change when 7-foot freshman center Greg Oden recovers from a wrist injury.
It will change more next season when the Buckeyes add two 6-6 guards (Jon Diebler and Evan Turner) plus 6-9 center Dallas Lauderdale and 7-1 forward Kosta Koufos, who signed their national letters-of-intent Wednesday.
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Third-year coach Thad Matta joked at his press conference that he's tried to coach height but "hasn't found the right drill."
"I go back to the first time we huddled as a team in Year 1 here," said the 6-5 Matta, who played guard at Butler. "And (assistant coach) Dan Peters said to me, 'Does it scare you at all that you're one of the tallest guys in the huddle?'
"From that point, we said we've got to start recruiting big guys."
