Ohio State Buckeyes NCAA Final Four Odds, Picks & Predictions: The Ohio State University Buckeyes mens basketball team won the Big Ten Conference regular season and conference tournament titles and have battled their way into the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. On Friday the Buckeyes will play Tennessee for the chance to make the final eight teams in the tournament.
Online sportsbook Bodog.com has a full set of odds on the Buckeyes' chances of making it to the Final Four as well as their odds of winning the 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship.
Of the four teams left in the Midwest Regional, Ohio State is the odds favorite to win at EVEN (1-to-1) according to online sportsbook Bodog.com. Northern Iowa and Tennessee are each listed at 15-to-4 while odds on Michigan State winning the region is 3-to-1.
Odds on Ohio State's winning the tournament championship are currently listed on the Bodog.com NCAA Tournament board at 5-to-1.
Thad Matta, recently selected as Big Ten Coach of the Year, is the head coach while the floor leader is National Player of the Year Evan Turner. Turner leads the Buckeyes in numerous statistical categories including a 20 points per game scoring average, rebounds (9.2) and assists (6.0).
The No. 2 seed in the 2010 NCAA Midwest Regional, Ohio State defeated 15th-seeded UC Santa Barbara and 10th seeded Georgia Tech in the first and second rounds, respectively, to advance to its fourth Sweet Sixteen since 1991. Junior guard Jon Diebler is OSU’s alltime 3-point king and is shooting a team-best .428 from beyond the arc this season with 115 makes. Senior David Lighty (12.8 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 2.9 apg) was on the Buckeyes squad that defeated Tennessee 85-84 in the 2007 NCAA South Regional semifinals. OSU boasts a +13.0 scoring margin, a +2.0 rebounding margin and a +2.8 turnover margin on the year.
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