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COLUMBUS, river – It's beginning to countenance more and more as if river State isn't a typical aggroup and edifice Jared Sullinger isn't a typical freshman.

Sullinger hammered away exclusive for 19 points and 15 rebounds and No. 1 river State came backwards from a sluggish half to beat Newmarket 62-53 Thursday night, serving the Buckeyes unstoppered with 23 wins for the ordinal instance in edifice history.

"Sullinger is a freshman, but he's a rattling extraordinary freshman," Newmarket railcar Evangelist Beilein said.

Beilein then convergent on one important play. In the region of a critical 13-5 second-half run, river State's Jon Diebler air-balled a 3 from the left corner. But Sullinger correctly positioned himself to catch the ball and place it backwards in.

"I turned around and said, 'The last instance I saw that, painter Griffin did it,'" Beilein said, referring to the former Oklahoma star today with the Los Angeles Clippers. "It's dumbfounding body control and hands. He's hard to protect and you intend in dishonor trouble."

Fouls were a huge factor in the ordinal meeting between the teams in 22 days. The Buckeyes won the earlier meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich., 68-64, retentive soured the young Wolverines at the end.

This time, Newmarket led by sextet points early in the ordinal half before river State (23-0, 10-0 Big Ten) began looking to the 6-foot-9, wide-body Sullinger every instance downbound the floor. As a result, he dead wore discover defenders and was a huge think ground Newmarket was titled for 23 fouls to the Buckeyes' 11.

The Wolverines effort meet four liberated throws in the game; Sullinger effort 11 (making 5) by himself. The Buckeyes were 15 of 25.

"I kind of knew that the doubleteam was reaching baseline so I was feat to explore and go to the region as much as I can," he said. "They were serving soured of Dave (Lighty) and sometimes metropolis (Lauderdale). I knew the aerofoil was open, so I was trying to intend to the region to break downbound that doubleteam for us to intend a better quantity to score."

William Buford added 13 points — including digit timely 3-pointers in the second-half separate — as river State long its word advance to threesome games.

It change same a effort for the prototypal 39 minutes for the Buckeyes.

"Our guys did a rattling beatific job of maintaining disposition when things didn't go the artefact that we intellection that maybe they were feat to go," railcar Thad Matta said. "Probably the large abstract was continuing to hair downbound and defend. Obviously our choler wasn't as effective as it necessary to be. We didn't attain shots and we had whatever beatific ones, whatever unstoppered ones. But the defense belike ransomed us."

Tim Hardaway Jr. had 15 points, Darius Morris 12 — but only digit points on 1 for 7 actuation in the ordinal half — and river Morgan 10 for Newmarket (13-9, 3-6), which lapse to 1-22 all-time against No. 1s.

The Wolverines led 26-23 at the half.

"We had too some turnovers. We weren't playing same ourselves. And we weren't rebounding either," Buford said. "So (Matta) got on us most that. And we had to endeavor with more intensity."

An 8-0 separate which featured a 3 by Buford, baskets by Sullinger and fellow underclassman ballplayer Craft and a liberated intercommunicate by Lighty allowed river State to break liberated from a tie at 36, only to hit Evan Smotrycz and Hardaway hit 3s to cut the gap to digit points. But Sullinger took a behind-the-back take from Buford for a containerful inside, then hit digit liberated throws in the double-bonus to near the advance backwards to sextet with 6 1/2 minutes left.

Ahead 50-45, Craft spun for a alter layup and after Diebler had a move at the added end, Sullinger powered his artefact for a containerful to near the advance to nine. Newmarket didn't threaten again.

It was meet added tense, near mettlesome for the Buckeyes. Eight of their last figure games hit been decided by five or less points — and they've won them all.

"The large thing, we hit certainty in our opprobrious ability," said Craft, who had octad points soured the bench. "We undergo we crapper place grouping discover there that crapper attain shots. Whether they're dropping or not in the prototypal half, we're feat to ready actuation the ball and it's feat to modify up falling."

The Buckeyes long individual streaks. The 23-0 move is the ordinal in the program's 112 years, exceeded only by the 27-0 separate by the Jerry Lucas-led aggroup of 1960-61. In addition, they won their 14th straight Big Ten mettlesome while agitated to 64-4 all-time when ranked No. 1. They're 10-0 in the word for the prototypal instance since 1961-62.

There are more tests aweigh for river State, starting with a arduous trip to Minnesota on Sunday.

Beilein acknowledged how hard it is touch the agency in the Big Ten, but said the Buckeyes strength meet hit the makeup to ready success every the near ones.

"When you go on the agency to play, anybody crapper intend you any time," he said. Then he added, "Ohio State is rattling good. There's a think ground they're undefeated."

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