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Ohio State Basketball Adds Former SEC 5-Star Through Transfer Portal · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes Tomorrow Morning for Tuesday, April sixteenth. I'm your host
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game in one hundred and thirty seven days, the
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  game against Michigan in two hundred and twenty eight days. The transfer portal for
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  college football opened on Monday, and well, I didn't have a specific topic
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  for today's show. I figured, well, certainly, certainly there will be
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  transfer portal news talk about on the Tuesday morning show. And as a true
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  professional, of course, I was right. Was it about college football?
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  Which I was assuming? It was absolutely not no news in the transfer portal
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  yet for the Buckeyes in terms of guys coming or going. I'm sure that
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  is still to come. We will have that, I'm sure on coming some
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  coming days. But there is some significant transfer portal news for Jake Diebler in
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  the Ohio State and men's basketball program. Buckeyes added center Aaron Bradshaw, seven
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  foot one center out of Kentucky, one of the top five players in the
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  class of twenty twenty three, transferring from Kentucky to Ohio State. Enjoying Kevin
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  Noon of Buckeye Huddle dot Com. Kevin, this seems like it is a
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  very big addition for the Buckeyes in I guess more than one way. Yeah,
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  it sure is as Ohio State looks to rebuild its team. I mean,
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  obviously several key players are gone, either via graduation or via their own
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  exit into the transfer portal. So going and getting Bradshaw player who was number
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  two according to one of the services, top five pretty much across the board,
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  five star guys seven to one to thirty. Let's say he's not going
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  to come in. He's not bulked up as much as like a Zach Edy
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  per se. But somebody who got off to a little bit of a slow
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  start to their collegiate career, dealt with some injuries, really didn't make their
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  debut until early December. Had some games put up seventeen fifteen points, had
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  some games put up zero points. Consistency is going to need to be worked
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  on. But this is a different type of piece than what Ohio State has
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  had in a while. With apologies to Ibrahima Diallo, a big man who
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  can get out there and play back to the basket, front of the basket,
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  a couple of different things. It'll be interesting to see how he works
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  into a system that already has Felix Okpara, but no longer has that key
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  as a as as a backup for uh you know what, you know what
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  exactly does it all mean? And it feels like he and Akpara could be
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  a pretty dynamic duo. I don't know that you're playing both of those guys
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  at the same time, but losing z Key to the transfer portal towards you.
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  At the after last season, they were obviously looking to fill another one
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  big man role to complement Okpara. Seems like they have done that pretty effectively.
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  Here. Bradshaw played He's played, you know, twenty six games as
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  a freshman for Kentucky, started ten of them. Scored four point nine points,
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  three point three rebounds, zero point seven blocks, not you know,
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  not enormous numbers, but you know, was out there and was a role
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  player for them. I think one piece of this Kevin, that is a
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  pretty significant piece of his story is he suffered an injury in his the spring
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  of his high school high school senior sea and missed all of the offseason,
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  missed the start of the season, came back kind of late. It feels
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  like there's a little bit of an asterisk on those numbers. Where you know,
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  sometimes there's the former top five player and he's been in college for four
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  years and just it's never come together. And it's like you wonder about the
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  recruiting rankings there might be a little bit of an asterisk on on well the
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  performance wasn't enormous as refreshmen, where that injury may have played a little bit
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  of a role there. Well, I think it absolutely played a role there.
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  And while I'm not saying cross off the numbers from last year and just
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  don't put them into consideration, is he going to be a guy that's going
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  to get you seventeen points a game like he did against Penn? I think
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  he went seventeen and eleven against Penn in his second game of his collegiate career.
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  Not unless he's going to go play in the IVY, I don't know,
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  But you know, I also saw stretches of multiple games where and he
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  was only playing a couple of minutes to where he didn't have any points.
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  But when you're playing at Kentucky and the expectations and the recruiting there, and
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  if you have a short leash for certain players, you're just not going to
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  have an opportunity to kind of work through some of this stuff. You come
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  into Ohio State, the expectations are there. Don't get me wrong. I
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  think fans are very hungry, especially with how Ohio State finished the season and
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  it all too abruptly in the n third round loss to Uga. People are
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  going to want to see market improvement from this team. And I think that
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  this is a better team with Aaron Bradshaw than certainly without. But there's going
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  to be a lot of work that's going to go into this. He's gonna
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  have to work with Dave Dickerson once he gets on campus and everything else.
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  And you know, this is a departure. Ohio State really just has not
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  done things with a big in the in the Holtman system per se. And
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  you know, this is an exciting time if you're an Ohio State fan,
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  because sometimes you have to have proof of performance, and if Aaron Bradshaw has
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  some success with Ohio State, then your questions are answered, well, do
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  I go to Ohio State to prove what a big man can do there without
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  having reference of what any big man has done in the Ohio State system.
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  So now this one just makes a lot of sense. And when you couple
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  it with Mity Johnson. You know we're gonna we're gonna see a very different
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  look team when you don't have Scotti Middleton, when you don't have Roddy Gale,
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  when you don't have some of these names that you've grown accustomed to,
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  even if they've only been in town for a year or two years or whatever.
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  But you know, Bradshaw completely changes the makeup of this team. And
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  it's not because I'm expecting him to be a fourteen and ten guy, but
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  it's because Ohio State has finally is the last kid on the block to get
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  a VCR and now you know, now it's all brave new world. Now
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  Ohio State has a big I've got a gun. Oh ho ho. I
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  mean you know where we are right now. So I'm very curious that's what
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  this is. Yeah, it feels like the Jake Diebler VCR era is still
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  new enough to the clock. The clock is still flashing twelve o'clock. But
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  he'll get that. He'll get that programming figured out at some point relatively soon.
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  You think they have they lost said key to the transfer portal. Feels
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  like this, the addition of Bradshaw is kind of okay, you replaced one
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  with the other, so that solves that problem. Bradshaw Zke would only have
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  one more year left. Bradshaw only one year of eligible eligibility expired, so
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  potentially a longer term addition there. You mentioned the addition of Mitya Johnson.
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  That feels like that kind of swaps in neatly for Roddy Gaale. So okay,
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  you can add and cross that one out, but it still feels like
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  the loss of Middleton feels like that that's one spot where old Higher State maybe
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  still has some work to do in the portal. What do you think do
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  they do they need to add a wing to to fill that spot? Do
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  is there anything else they need to be looking for shopping for in the portal?
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  They need a wing, lad and simple, they need a wing.
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  I mean, we don't know necessarily what the count is right now because I
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  mean, if you don't enter the portal, you don't really have to say
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  anything. But you have time to enter the portal, so you know,
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  I'm not going to speculate on numbers right now on something that could be dated
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  really quickly. But you have to get a wing. I mean that is
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  without a out because even with Aaron Bradshaw considered a four. I mean,
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  Felix lock Car is considered a four in a lot of ways too. I
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  mean, you've got to get you know, a skilled wing out there just
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  to give Ohio State another weapon there. But yeah, I think that I
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  and I would I would love to see them have. You can never have
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  enough ball handlers. You can never have enough you know, point guards or
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  combo guards or whatever. I mean, we see the Big ten continuing to
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  get a bit to be a bigger and bigger league in terms of how some
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  of the personnel are. I mean, now, you're not going to upset
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  me if you say, hey, we want to sit there and have another
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  you know, another answer up front as well. But wing is you know
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  that is that's a non starter. You have to have to get one,
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  if not more, in my opinion. So that is Ohio It's a big
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  transfer edition of a big man on Monday. That happened on Monday. The
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  departure of a different big man became a fit on Monday as well. That
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  is zed key for your player at Ohio State announced he was going into the
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  portal right after the season ended. And now Kevin, we know where he's
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  going and he's not going very far. No, he's not. He's going
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  down to Dayton recently, taking a visit down there. All indications were that
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  this was just a matter of when. Once he took that visit, I'm
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  sure tires were kicked by a lot of programs out there. There's a lot
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  of stuff that zed can do. How does he, you know, how
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  does he go in the in the A ten, which is not as much
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  of a banger league as the Big ten is, and it's certainly officiated differently,
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  you know, zed Key, I think he lost him as of effectiveness
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  in the conference when he did the right thing for his health and dropped some
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  weight and everything else. And I think that I think there's a little better
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  spacing in the A ten for him. And I think that a lot of
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  Ohio State fans are going to be pulling for him at his next stop.
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  I mean, because this is not a case of him going to rival or
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  anything along those lines. So I think that generally there are a lot of
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  good feelings there, except for maybe the people who just hate everybody on the
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  internet. You say, I've never met such a person in my entire life.
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  So there is Ohio States big news, big news coming, big news
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  going for the Ohio State men's basketball team. We are guessing there's going to
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  be some Ohio State transfer portal news on the football front as well in the
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  coming days. When there is, we will be covering it for you all
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  at bucke huddle dot com and YouTube dot com slash bucke Huddle. It'll probably
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  have some instant reaction shows whenever that news drops officially for whichever guys do end
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  up entering the portal or coming to Ohio State. Could be a very busy
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  week or two on that front. We'll be covering that all as well as
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  a bunch of recruiting news as well. Buckey's had a ton of big name
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  recruits in over the spring game weekend, landed a couple commitments, more could
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  be on the way. We'll be covering that for you as well at bucke
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  huddle dot com. Make sure you're subscribed there where Tony Kevin and I cover
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  the team, Mark covers recruit, and've got our whole team of x's and
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  ose gurus all there to make you a smarter football fan all at Buckeyehuddle dot
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  com. That'll do it for today. Thank you, guys all for joining
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  us, have a great day. We will talk to you tomorrow.