COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — – Thad Matta is happy with his team. He is just not happy with how it is playing right now. “Coming off of Saturday’s game, their awareness better be heightened,” he said of his players. The Buckeyes are 11-0 against unranked teams but now stand 0-3 against Associated Press Top 25 teams after sustaining a 74-55 beating at No. 12 Illinois on Saturday. The inability to beat elite teams has dropped the Buckeyes from No. 4 in the preseason to No. 15 in the latest media balloting. But they say they can fix things and turn it around before Tuesday night’s game at Purdue. “We’ve just got to take a better approach to it,” backup point guard Shannon Scott said. “Before the (Illinois) game, our minds weren’t really there. We were all like, laughing around, not focused. If we come to Purdue more focused, we’ll be fine.” The common denominator in all three losses was poor shooting by the Buckeyes. They shot under 34 percent in each defeat. Compounding their misery in the loss to the Illini, they…
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