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Greg Oden's Success in Big Ten Debut Bolsters Outlook

Matta commends center for dealing with hand injury.

Fans, his coaches and his teammates eagerly await the day Greg Oden has full use of his right hand.

In the meantime, he didn’t do badly with his left in his Big Ten debut.

The 7-foot freshman made 9 of 10 free throws with his off hand and scored a career-high 21 points Tuesday night in leading the Ohio State men’s basketball team to a 74-67 victory over Indiana in Value City Arena.

Then he joked afterward that he "might finish out this year" shooting left-handed.

At least everyone thought he was joking.

Greg Oden, still wearing a wrap to protect the right wrist on which he had offseason surgery, has shot 67.8 percent from the field and 57.1 from the free throw line in seven games since being cleared to play Dec. 2. He is averaging 15.4 points for the sixth-ranked Buckeyes (12-2), second on the team to Daequan Cook’s 15.6.

Greg Oden has said he could not shoot with his left hand before being forced to work exclusively since June, when he had surgery.

"I think you could probably count a handful (of people) in this world who could do" what Greg Oden has done, coach Thad Matta said. "I think it shows the dedication. He was 4 for 10 (at the line against Coppin State on Saturday) and was very upset about it. He’s (shooting) over 100 a day (in practice).

"The good thing is, he’s starting to use his right hand as well. I don’t know when the switch is going to come, but hopefully it’ll be soon and I think it’ll make him even better when he gets that right hand."

An X-ray of Greg Oden’s wrist last Thursday showed the hole from where a surgical screw was removed Oct. 19 has completely healed. That has allowed him to increase exercises to strengthen the wrist and reduce the restrictiveness of the wrap protecting it. But it has not appeared yet that he has the ability to control his shot with his dominant hand.

Regardless of how many points Oden scores, however, he "has the chance to be the best player on the floor every night," Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson said.

The inside presence of Greg Oden and Othello Hunter limited Indiana’s leading scorer, D.J. White, to three field goals in 14 attempts and the Hoosiers to 10 baskets inside the threepoint arc. Twelve of their field goals and almost half of their attempts came from outside the arc. Oden and Hunter combined to block seven shots.

"Twenty-one points is a bonus when he scores," Sampson said, "because when I see Greg Oden, I don’t see a great scorer, per se, I just see a great player. He does so many things. He’s a lot more like Bill Russell than he is, say, Shaq, or Wilt Chamberlain. He’s a winner, a tough kid, does all the little things, really smart."

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What surprises you the most about high school? "There is way more kids in school. In basketball, the speed of the game is faster."
Favorite subject: Math
Least favorite subject: Science
What are your goals for high school? "To graduate and to continue to learn."

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