Ohio State 81 - Cincinnati 66
Ohio State was clearly the better team in the first half. Then they got cocky/lazy/something as Cincy ran off a 19-4 run early in the second half to take a small lead. After a timeout, tOSU flipped the switch back to "On", went on a 17-1 run of their own, and destroyed Cincinnati.
Ohio State's guard Aaron Craft seems to be a good barometer of tOSU's potential. Craft had a tremendous game against a very game Gonzaga team, scoring 17 points on 7-9 shooting. He struggled for a long time in this one, at one point he was 0-5 from the field. But he picked things up offensively by the end, finishing with 11 points, and played his usual tough defense to make things tough on Cincy's guards. If Craft can avoid offensive sinkhole games (the one question coming into the tournament), tOSU is a true contender
Florida 68 - Marquette 58
I'm kind of shocked the final score was this low. Both of these teams love flying up and down the floor, especially after defensive rebounds/forced turnovers. But the defense/bad shooting overrode the number of possessions, and in the end, Florida simply played the game better than Marquette did.
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