Ohio State wins the 2015 National Championship in Wrestling

[B1GOSU]

Ohio State just won its first ever National Championship in Wrestling. OSU is only the 12th school to ever win a National Championship in the sport dating back to the 1920s when national championships were first awarded.

http://www.landgrantholyland.com/2015/3/21/8269861/ohio-state-wrestling-2015-ncaa-championships-results

 

[klemman]

So much for the population shift leading to then demise of Big 10 Sports. It would be great if a Big team can come through and win a basketball NC.

 

[Abro1975]

National Championships in Football And Wrestling. Not too shabby. And they are in our division , lol. Along w Michigan, MSU etc. Tough competition !

 

[ecojew]

Wasn't RU just one win shy of defeating OSU at the Barn a month or so ago??? That may well have been RU's best match of the year, if OSU is that good. I thought that Iowa and Minnesota were the biggest powers in B1G wrestling (and were 1-2 in the nation earlier this year IIRC) so this seems like something of an upset.

 

[RUwoz]

And MSU won cross country and PSU won womens volleyball and possibly fencing, indiana is great at men's soccer as is maryland, this division in best all around in country no doubt

 

[Abro1975]

OSU sat Logan Steiber and another top wrestler for that match. With full lineups they probably win 7 of 10 weight classes. Also, dual match scoring is very very different from NCAA Tourny scoring, where more of an emphasis in scoring is placed on kids advancing to the finals, as opposed to having a well rounded , balanced lineup. EG, Iowa has a terrific wrestling program and a well rounded team of kids ranked about 5-15 in most weight classes, yet in the NCAA tourny, OSU with just a couple more kids making it to the finals wins the tourny. On the Iowa wrestling site they are debating/complaining their head wrestling coach has miscalculated how to hand out schollies (eg full schollies to just 2 or 3 kids w real chances of winning it all, or spreading it around for a more balanced team that could probably beat OSU in a dual match. There is No Championship for dual matches in NCAA D1 college wrestling. Here in NJ, the state has a team tourny the week before the individual district/region /States tourny starts. I doubt the NCAA ever goes that route. Usually during the season there are some big tournys with dual match team format.

 

[B1GOSU]

Ohio State and Iowa tied for the B1G Championship a few weeks ago. Iowa finished second in the nation at the national championship behind OSU.

 

[Caliknight]

Originally posted by klemman:
So much for the population shift leading to then demise of Big 10 Sports. It would be great if a Big team can come through and win a basketball NC.

The "population shift" people speak of is a fallacy. There is no population shift. Areas of the south are simply growing faster than some other areas, specifically in the Midwest. But they are still growing.

 

[RutgersRaRa]

Originally posted by Caliknight:

Originally posted by klemman:
So much for the population shift leading to then demise of Big 10 Sports. It would be great if a Big team can come through and win a basketball NC.

The "population shift" people speak of is a fallacy. There is no population shift. Areas of the south are simply growing faster than some other areas, specifically in the Midwest. But they are still growing.

 

[SkilletHead2]

They won because they have a really good practice facility.

 

[RUchip]

Cool. Now the rest of the world will go back to not caring about college wrestling

 

[R1950]

5 of the 9 NC team finishes were by BIG teams. Not too shabby at all !

 

[klemman]

Originally posted by Caliknight:

Originally posted by klemman:
So much for the population shift leading to then demise of Big 10 Sports. It would be great if a Big team can come through and win a basketball NC.

The "population shift" people speak of is a fallacy. There is no population shift. Areas of the south are simply growing faster than some other areas, specifically in the Midwest. But they are still growing.

I have been saying much of the same argument for quite awhile. And if there is anyone moving to the South due to job opportunities, it hasn't necessarily been engineering, finance, and IT guy who is enhancing the athletic genetic pool.

 

[Ole Cabbagehead]

Originally posted by Caliknight:

Originally posted by klemman:
So much for the population shift leading to then demise of Big 10 Sports. It would be great if a Big team can come through and win a basketball NC.

The "population shift" people speak of is a fallacy. There is no population shift. Areas of the south are simply growing faster than some other areas, specifically in the Midwest. But they are still growing.

But that's just semantics. If you aren't growing as fast, you are losing population on a net basis.