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Gene Smith is confident that Thad Matta will get Ohio State basketball back on the map

It was a down year for Buckeye basketball, but Gene Smith isn't worried with Thad Matta in charge.

"I have all the confidence in the world that [Thad Matta]'s going to get the program back to where he and I think it should be."

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith met with Thad Matta for 90 minutes in their regular season-ending meeting, aftera season that was not one of the better ones in the Thad Matta era. The Buckeyes finished with a 21-14 record, and was just the third time in 12 years that the Bucks hadn't gone to the NCAA Tournament under Matta.