With the way that every single person I talked to who covered the Ohio men’s basketball team over the last day revered Greg Monroe and Georgetown, it was really difficult not to think that the Bobcats themselves were going to be intimidated as heck coming into tonight’s NCAA first round catastrophe.

Perhaps those people weren’t able to forget how Ohio had played earlier in the year, how they had collapsed or had been sloppy or had been downright outmatched. They felt they had to hedge.

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