What if you could watch Chic Harley play a game? Les Fessler? Vic Janowicz? Hop? Jim Parker? Bill Willis? Jerry Lucas? John Havilecheck? What would you give? Ever thought of what it was like to be around during the day's one of the greats in Ohio State Athletic History?

Well you could have been yesterday, and if you didn't watch it, shame on you. The ball is round instead of pointed, and it has been happening in the Schott instead of the 'Shoe, but Evan Turner is putting on a show equivalent to any of the best Heisman Trophy races in Ohio State Football History.

If this were taking place on the turf in the Horseshoe, or on the courts of the anointed Big East; if it were playing out at Duke, at Kansas, at 'Tucky, or on Tobacco Road - why the national media couldn't get enough of him. If he was a bad boy, or had a big posse, or hot dog interested in his own point total, you would see him on the front of every newspaper, magazine, every billboard.

Instead, this quiet, polite, kid just goes about making his teammates look good and finding whatever it takes for his team to win. Amazing is not a good enough word to describe Evan, or what he did yesterday, in playing through sickness, in a hostile environment. Michael Arace has a splendid column in today's Dispatch that explains that, and asks the question "Is anyone in college basketball better?"

I don't often plan my schedule around basketball, but what is going on right now is special. History in the making. Get it while it lasts.