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<blockquote data-quote="altgeld88" data-source="post: 1690469" data-attributes="member: 2886"><p>That's a good suggestion. I'm from Central Ohio. The problem is that Kentucky (as a basketball program <em>and</em> a state) just doesn't occur at all to most Ohioans, except for Appalachian emigres, though perhaps I'm wrong about Cincinnati natives. It just never comes up in the basketball conversation there in my experience. Indiana and Michigan have always been the big hoops rivalries for OSU (when its program wasn't in the tank). </p><p></p><p>In addition, even when basketball is going well in Columbus, the following is lukewarm. It's a football town, they don't fill the Schott regularly even when the team is strong, and the fan base is fickle. There's been an ongoing discussion the past decade about whether they should have ever left the 13k-seat St. John Arena (which, like Mackey, has a huge aluminum roof that reflects sound and makes it a tough place for opponents to play) in the late '90s for the 19k-seat Schott. </p><p></p><p>My friends who remain there still talk about football through the off-season, with only offhand attention to basketball. The only time I hear about OSU hoops enthusiastically from them is when they manage to beat a stellar Illinois team. Even when Matta had his run there, and went to the FF, the energy wasn't anywhere near what that produces in Bloomington, East Lansing or Champaign. They've got a great basketball tradition (three straight NC title games in the early '60s with one NC in that run, and seven BT titles in 12 seasons through '71) but football always overshadows it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="altgeld88, post: 1690469, member: 2886"] That's a good suggestion. I'm from Central Ohio. The problem is that Kentucky (as a basketball program [I]and[/I] a state) just doesn't occur at all to most Ohioans, except for Appalachian emigres, though perhaps I'm wrong about Cincinnati natives. It just never comes up in the basketball conversation there in my experience. Indiana and Michigan have always been the big hoops rivalries for OSU (when its program wasn't in the tank). In addition, even when basketball is going well in Columbus, the following is lukewarm. It's a football town, they don't fill the Schott regularly even when the team is strong, and the fan base is fickle. There's been an ongoing discussion the past decade about whether they should have ever left the 13k-seat St. John Arena (which, like Mackey, has a huge aluminum roof that reflects sound and makes it a tough place for opponents to play) in the late '90s for the 19k-seat Schott. My friends who remain there still talk about football through the off-season, with only offhand attention to basketball. The only time I hear about OSU hoops enthusiastically from them is when they manage to beat a stellar Illinois team. Even when Matta had his run there, and went to the FF, the energy wasn't anywhere near what that produces in Bloomington, East Lansing or Champaign. They've got a great basketball tradition (three straight NC title games in the early '60s with one NC in that run, and seven BT titles in 12 seasons through '71) but football always overshadows it. [/QUOTE]
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