COLUMBUS, Ohio -- JaQuan Lyle scored 17 and JaeSean Tate added 14 and 11 rebounds as Ohio State routed Western Carolina 66-38 in another tuneup game on Monday night.Kam Williams added 13 points and Trevor Thompson had 10 for Ohio State, which is 4-0 to start the season but has gotten away with some sloppy play over lesser opponents. The Buckeyes shot just 41.8 percent from the floor Monday, but outrebounded Western Carolina 44-33.On the defensive end, we played very good. We got stops, Lyle said. But on the offensive ends we just (werent) there mentally.The Buckeyes trailed 4-2 early before opening up the game with a 9-0 run and cruising from there. Western Carolina (1-4) shot just 27.5 percent from the floor and committed 20 turnovers.I thought defensively we were as sound as weve been in a long time, Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. On the flip side, we had possessions where were not thinking the game, were not making the easy play, were not making the easy read. Weve got to get better at that.Haboubacar Mutombo led the Southern Conference team with 11 points, and Marc Gosselin had nine points and 14 rebounds.The Buckeyes dominated inside, scoring 36 points in the paint, compared with just 10 for Western Carolina.Were going to keep building, keep winning, keep moving in the right direction, Williams said.Ohio State led 32-18 at the half on 5-for-8 shooting from the floor by Tate and eight steals by the Buckeyes. Lyle was 4 for 4 from the foul line in the half.For us to have a chance in this ballgame we needed to shoot the ball with a little consistency, Western Carolina coach Larry Hunter said. We had 11 turnovers in the first half, and that hurt us a little bit. We cant give away possessions. Ohio State is too talented to do that. Youre not going to win too many ballgames shooting 27 percent.BIG PICTUREWestern Carolina: The Catamounts got to put their game up next to a more-talented Big Ten team before starting the conference season.Ohio State: The only thing Ohio State can hope to get from games like this is improvement. Western Carolina will be one of the worst teams the Buckeyes play this season. Matta said his team still needs work.We werent as connected as we need to be, we werent as sharp, he said.INJURY REPORTOhio State starting forward Keita Bates-Diop sat out with a sprained ankle he suffered Thursday in the win over Providence. Matta said he was out of the mobilization boot but hes day to day. 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Billy Joe Saunders insists he will not price himself out of fighting world middleweight No. 1 Gennady Golovkin.Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) has not fought since he won the WBO world middleweight title from Irishman Andy Lee via points in December.But promoter Frank Warren is lining up a first defence for Saunders against either Russian Artur Akavov (16-1, 7 KOs) or American Rob Brant (21-0, 14 KOs) on the undercard of Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko II at the Manchester Arena on October 29.Akavov and Brant are ranked 11th and 7th by the WBO respectively and as long as Saunders is successful and unification fight with Golovkin is being planned for February 2017.At the start of the year, Golovkins team made Saunders an offer -- believed to be ￡2.2million -- to face the Kazakh knockout machine in a world title unification clash.But Saunders, 27 turned it down because he wanted more to fight Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs), the WBA-WBC-IBF world middleweight champion.Im ready to fight him [Golovkin] where ever, in England, in America or in a field, said Saunders, who has been kept out of action by a hand injury. Theres nothing that can get in the way of stopping this. Im not pricing myself out, I will fight any man born.Im fighting on October 29. Give me a week and I will fight him then. As long as I can shake my ring rust off in this next one I will fight him then.Golovkin, 34, stopped Saunders fellow Briton Kell Brook in five rounds in London last Saturday to stretch run of consecutive knockouts to 23.ddddddddddddBut Saunders insists he was encouraged by what he saw of Golovkin, who is regarded as the most feared boxer in the world.Everyone is raving about him but I took a lot of confidence from what I saw at the weekends, Saunders said.Im a fully fledged middleweight and not a blown up welterweight. Kell was up on the scorecards and showed a lot of heart and will. His corner were right to pull him out. Kell did well and established himself and all my credit goes to him.Golovkin did what he had should have but I see stuff that I can certainly capitalise on. People are beat before they get in the ring with him. But it is definitely not like that with me. Hes had it rough but so have I. Ive been dragged up.Hes a good puncher, a good puncher and has a good chin. But hes a man and hes definitely beatable.Warren has already began talks with Golovkins promoter Tom Loeffler, but the California-based Kazakh is first being lined up to face American Daniel Jacobs in November.Theres will on both side to make that fight happen and I would prefer it in Britain, said Warren. The money that was offered last time was not enough. We felt he should get more money. Now Golovkin has fought in the UK, think those numbers are achievable. ' ' '