Dave Skretta - Associated Press
Issue date: 4/1/08 Section: Sports
NEW YORK (AP) - Ohio State had just lost three straight games in mid-January when Thad Matta got on the phone with Florida coach Billy Donovan, looking for some insight into how to handle a young team or some encouraging words from a close colleague.
So much for that.
"He started laughing and said, 'You think you've got problems?'" Matta recalled Monday.
All of those freshmen and sophomores who replaced the star-studded cast of last year's national title game have grown up, though, and Florida and Ohio State are back in the final four - though nobody's mistaking the NIT for the NCAA tournament.
If the two-time defending national champion Gators can beat Massachusetts and the Buckeyes get past Mississippi in the NIT semifinals Tuesday night, they'll play a rematch of last year's title game Thursday night at Madison Square Garden...
I wouldn't mind seeing that at all! We've beat them once this year and we can do it again. Just like they did to us last year!
NEW YORK (AP) - Ohio State had just lost three straight games in mid-January when Thad Matta got on the phone with Florida coach Billy Donovan, looking for some insight into how to handle a young team or some encouraging words from a close colleague.
So much for that.
"He started laughing and said, 'You think you've got problems?'" Matta recalled Monday.
All of those freshmen and sophomores who replaced the star-studded cast of last year's national title game have grown up, though, and Florida and Ohio State are back in the final four - though nobody's mistaking the NIT for the NCAA tournament.
If the two-time defending national champion Gators can beat Massachusetts and the Buckeyes get past Mississippi in the NIT semifinals Tuesday night, they'll play a rematch of last year's title game Thursday night at Madison Square Garden...
I wouldn't mind seeing that at all! We've beat them once this year and we can do it again. Just like they did to us last year!
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