Josh Q. Public:  Attitude, when I’m on fire.  Juice on the loose, electric wire.  Simple and plain, give me the lane.  I’ll throw it down your throat like Barkley.  See the car keys, you’ll never get these.  They belong to the Ohio State posse.  -Public Enemy

Public Service Announcement:  OK, here we go!  Another day, another dolla, for the top dogg with the gold flea colla.  Holla!  Holla at your boy.  Holla at Greg Oden.  Goodness gracious me oh my-oh!  Look what’s cookin’ in Ohio!  Greg Oden.  Man Child.  Man-child, he will make you cry.  Man-child, man-child, man-child.  He’s the apple of your eye.  Greg  Oden.  The Gigantic-O.  Greg Oden.  Making the Buckeyes go.  Greg Oden.  Now you know.  You know I love this guy.  You know I think he is going to win NBA Championship after NBA Championship.  First thing’s first though.  First he’s gotta win the NCAA Championship.  He will.  Simon says… championship.  This is it.  Make no mistake where you are.  This is it.  Your back’s to the corner.  This is it.  The waiting is over.  No room to run, no way to hide.  No time for wondering why.  It’s here.  The moment is now.  About to decide.  Kenny Loggins style.  Greg Oden is going to decide.  Decide the outcome of this game.  Greg Oden is the key to Ohio State’s National Championship hopes.  Sure Fast Mike Conley has been playing great.  Sure Ron Lewis has been the pride of the Buckeye state.  But it’s Greg Oden who has to carry that weight.  Carry that wait a long time.  He’ll never give you his pillow.  What he will give you, is a chance to win.  A very good chance.  A chance to dance.  Dance like Jack Palance.  Don’t look at the stat sheet.  That’s not the Gigantic-O’s game.  Not what makes you say his name.  Not what puts everyone else to shame.  No, he doesn’t dominate the stat sheet, but his imprint is all over Ohio State’s success.  If you saw the second half of the Georgetown game, you know what I mean.  You saw the machine.  Saw him on your hi-def screen.  Thirteen gigantic points.  Nine gigantic boards.  One gigantic block.  Hibbert who?  He gives you a chance to win because he plays defense.  Extraordinary defense.  Superior interior defense.  He is a presence down low.  A presence to be reckoned with.  He totally alters what the other team tries to do.  Not in my hizzy.  Get that weak schnit outta here.  Striking fear into the hearts of men.  The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.  Yes, they fear him.  They headlight deer him.  Folks do not want bring the ball anywhere near him.  Not Roy Hibbert.  Not Jeff Green.  Not Joakim Noah.  Not Al Hortford.  Not nobody.  Why would they.  How could they.  Why should they.  You know what they say.  Defense wins championships and all that.  But Oden can fill it up if has to.  You saw that little run against the Hoyas.  You know the one.  The one that made you get up on your feet.  The one that brought the heat.  The one that was tough as concrete.  The finest cut of meat.  Scoring eight of OSU’s fifteen to start the second half.  Sparked a 10-2 run to start the second half.  Blew the Hoyas straight out of the Georgia Dome to start the second half.  Baby hook.  Baby hook.  Two handed phi slamma bamma jamma!  Dunk you very much.  Goodness.  The missed tomahawk.  Gracious!  The jumper from the baseline with the kissss.  If that spurt didn’t move you.  If it didn’t groove you.  If it didn’t J-Schmoove you.  You got no heart.  Fight the team across the field, show them Ohio’s here.  Set the earth reverberating with a mighty cheer.  Rah! Rah! Rah!  Hit them hard and see how they fall.  Never let that team get the ball.  Hail!  Hail!  Hail!  The Gigantic-O is here! 

Peace out homies. Six Two and Even!

Josh Q. Public:  You upset me baby, upset me baby.  Like being hit by a falling tree.  Woman, what you do to me.  -BB King

Public Service Announcement:  OK, here we go!  Just a short one today.  Just a short one from the basketball court one today.  Butler Basketball.  Butler Bulldog Basketball.  Can they do this?  Do they have a shot?  Just what makes that little old ant think he’ll move that rubber tree plant.  Anyone knows an ant can’t, move a rubber tree plant.  But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopes.  He’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.  In the land of the chalk, the Butler Bulldogs have high hopes.  No one can make this ram scram.  Couldn’t make ‘em scram from the Pre-Season NIT.  In the pre-season NIT, the Bulldogs high hoped Notre Dame.  They high hoped Indiana.  They high hoped Tennessee and Gonzaga.  High hoped themselves all the way to the championship.  This team has beaten Purdue in the regular season.  They made their way into the top ten and have been ranked among the nation’s top twenty teams since November.  Beat number four seed Maryland in the tournament.  Moving rubber tree plants left and right.  These guys are outta sight.  They face the biggest of rubber tree  plants tonight.

AJ Graves has high hopes.  “That’s fine.  They didn’t say we’d win versus Maryland either.”  He’s not gettin’ low.  He’s not lettin’ go.  Why should he?  MVP of the NIT Season Tip-Off, he’s the Jimmy Chitwood of this dance.  He’s a dancin’ fool.  Dancin’ like those other old fools, Emmit, Jerry and Clyde the Glide.  Like Myra Fleener always says:  ” He’s a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him.”  This kid can shoot.  Shoot the lights out.  Shot the lights against Old Dominion.  Shot the lights out against Maryland.  He’s gonna have to shoot the lights again tonight against the Gators if Butler wants to take this thing.  If they really want that brass ring.  If they really wanna be all that and a chicken wing.  I’ve seen you guys can shoot but there’s more to the game than shooting. There’s fundamentals and defense.  Welcome to Indiana Basketball.  Butler Bulldog basketball.  Disciplined basketball.  Mike Green is disciplined.  He has high hopes.  High apple pie in the sky hopes.  He was disciplined enough to take the Horizon League’s Newcomer of the Year Award.  Disciplined enough to finish as the team’s leading rebounder.  As a six foot guard.  Disciplined enough to finish as the team’s second-leading scorer.  Second team All-League.  Playing relentless defense.  Dogged defense.  Bull Dogged defense.  Played Bull Dogged defense against ODU.  His Bull Dogged defense along with Graves’ shooting, just shut down the vaunted ODU offense.  Shut ‘em down, shut ‘em, shut ‘em down.  Public Enemy style.  Brandon Crone has high hopes.  He’s not feelin’ bad.  He’s not feelin’ sad.  He’s a Two-time All-State baller from Indiana’s own Frankfort High.  Get the papers, get the papers.  He set school records for career scoring and rebounding.   He was MVP. of the state AAU tournament, which his team won.  He was voted Butler’s captain as a sophomore.   He had a 27-point outburst in a game against Ohio State last season.  But what this guy does.  What this guy does all the time is:  Go out and get his ten to fifteen points a game.  Go out and get his four to seven boards.  Play Bull Dogged defense.  Play Butler Bull Dogged defense.  For Butler to win tonight, they’re going to have to continue that Bull Dogged defense.  They’re going to have to continue to hit the threes.  The magic number.  Don’t forget, Butler set a Horizon League record by making 314 from beyond the arc.  They scored thirty-six of their sixty-two points on Downtown Freddie Browns against the Terps.  So they can do this.  Like they always knew this.  They’re playing the defending National Champions tonight. They’re playing the number one seed in the NCAA Tournament tonight.  But, all those problems just a toy balloon.  They’ll be bursted soon.  They’re just bound to go pop.  Oops there goes another problem kerplop.  Butler Bulldogs Basketball, ladies and gentlemen.  Butler Bulldogs basketball.

Peace out homies.  Sox Two and even!