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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Drafting Ohio State football players, but with a twist

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How many Ohio State football players have some skill on the basketball court? In honor of the NCAA Tournament starting today, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis use this episode of Buckeye Talk to draft our best starting fives of Buckeyes to take from the field to the court. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you've been?

0:17.7

Bucket talk is about to begin.

0:21.1

Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.

0:31.8

Welcome back to Book I Talk.

0:33.2

I'm Stephen Means.

0:33.9

That's Stefan Christenig, and that is Andrew Gillis.

0:35.9

The NCAA tournament officially begins today at noon. Well, they have like the first four end games and stuff like that, but that's not. No, that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about when it starts at noon and all of a sudden you come back from lunch and nobody's getting any work done because they're watching hoops. That's the tournament. This first four starts with Ohio State.

0:55.7

When Ohio State starts the tournament starts.

0:57.4

Yeah, listen, man, even in basketball, you're going to play at noon. Everything's at noon at Ohio State here. We're going to do something fun today. We're going to take the football team and we're going to turn them in the basketball players and build three on three teams of who we think would produce the best three on three

1:12.1

team of football players playing basketball. And it's got to be the current 2026 roster.

1:18.6

So Sonny Stiles is a no-go. Caleb Downs is a no-go. I don't think Caleb Downs is very good

1:23.7

at basketball. Cardo Tate is a no-go. I think this is going to be fun, mainly because

1:29.0

this becomes the which wide receivers is everybody going to get fooled in the taking because

1:33.2

they're tall people, and I'm going to be like, aha, I tricked you. And then I went with a linebacker

1:38.4

or a defensive tackle. I have this thing up on the screen right now of actually no, we'll just do this. Stefan,

1:45.3

pick a number between one and one thousand. Oh, uh, I was expecting like one and 10. No.

1:56.3

I'll do 730. Ulyis. 511? What was your number again?

2:02.7

Stefan.

2:03.3

730.

2:04.1

And yours was 511 Gilles?

2:07.0

Both of you went over, so I'll do it again.

2:11.2

Okay.

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