The Buckeyes might have crawled back from the brink of NCAA tournament limbo Tuesday night in Iowa City, as they survived a last-second 3-point attempt by the Hawkeyes to pull out a 60-58 victory. Ohio State's Dallas Lauderdale blocked a layup with six seconds to play that would have tied the game, and the final Hawkeye shot, permitted by Evan Turner's missed free throw, got rim, but bounced off at the buzzer. In his latest edition of Buckeye Leaves, Buckeye Dan updates our readers on the Buckeye hoop team, David Lighty's return, Mo Clarett's blog from prison ... as well as much more.

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Recent surprise Ohio State commit David Durham and his mother were kind enough to spend a few minutes with The Cleveland Fan's own Mike Furlan to discuss David' s recent commitment to the Buckeyes and the game that David will bring with him to Columbus in 2010. Furls outlines that conversation with us in his latest column.

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Fans that religously follow the Ohio State football program, even in the February doldroms when the first snap seems years away, were dealt a shock this week when the Buckeyes received their fourth commit of the 2010 class. Austin Westlake (TX) LB/DE David Durham committed immediately after receiving an offer from the Buckeyes coaching staff following an east coast recruiting trip to West Virginia, Virginia, and Ohio State, shocking a lot of recruitniks in Ohio who had no idea who David was. Westlake's head football coach, Derek Long, was kind enough to discuss David and his recruitment with our Mike Furlan today.

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Jim Tressel and his Ohio State football staff have landed the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation, according to the Scout rating service, and they are rated No. 3 by Rivals. Quite an encore by Tressel and Recruiting Coordinator John Petersen to the star-studded 2008 crop, which was a top five class a year ago. Seven Buckeye commitments are in the Scout Top 100 rankings this year, with Dorian Bell (pictured), the linebacker from Monroeville (PA) Gateway the highest rated Buckeye, at No. 19. Buckeye Dan Wismar takes a closer look at the Bucks stellar '09 class.

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