Building a winner began in the wee hours of July 7, 2004, when Thad Matta, shortly after officially taking control of the Ohio State men"s basketball program, called long-time assistant coach John Groce at 3 a.m. asking where four of the most sought-after recruits were playing summer league basketball that day. At 6 a.m. Matta was on a plane to Teaneck, New Jersey, to watch Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr., Daequan Cook and David Lighty play. Within a year, all four signed on as Buckeyes. As the No. 1-ranked recruiting class in the country played out their final high school and junior college seasons, Matta"s Buckeyes were claiming an outright Big Ten Championship in just his second season. In A New Vision: Thad Matta and the Rebirth of Buckeye Basketball, Dan Wallenberg, the Associate Director of OSU"s sports communications department, gives his insider"s view of Matta"s first three seasons and the arrival of the most talked-about recruiting class in decades.