When Chris Holtmann took over as Ohio State’s men’s basketball coach ahead of the 2017-18 season, the expectations were low. Then he led the Buckeyes to a second place finish in the Big Ten and a five-seed in the NCAA Tournament, leading to a renewed excitement heading into this season. Read More
Ohio State hung with Michigan for much of the first half, but the Wolverines showed why they are the No. 5 team in the country when they pulled away from a six-point halftime lead for a 65-49 victory at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Tuesday.
The Buckeyes (13-7, Read More
While their playing days at Ohio State are over, the Ohio State Alumni team led by Jared Sullinger and Aaron Craft is set to host a regional round of The Basketball Tournament in Columbus from July 19-21. Games will be played at the Capital Center.
The team consisting mostly of Read More
Freshman Luther Muhammad had a career-high 24 points when Ohio State ended its longest losing streak in 21 years with a 70-60 victory over Nebraska at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Neb., On Saturday.
Nebraska was within 62-56 with a minute left but Muhammad made all six of his throws Read More
Without its top scorer and rebounder as freshman forward Dorka Juhasz (12.1 points and 8.3 rebounds) sat near the end of the bench in a gray sweatsuit, out for the night with a sprained ankle, the Ohio State women’s basketball team fought on Thursday at Value City Arena in Columbus. Read More
While Ohio State men’s basketball signed three of the top 36 prospects in the nation, none of them were named McDonald’s All-Americans. That honor, though, did go to one of the blue-chip recruits in women’s coach Kevin McGuff’s 2019 recruiting class.
Canton (Ohio) McKinnley five-star guard Kierstan Bell, the No. Read More
Cold shooting and an abundance of turnovers doomed Ohio State to a first-half dry spell it never recovered from despite a valiant, falling to Purdue 79-67 at Value City Arena on Wednesday for the Buckeyes fifth straight defeat.
Purdue (13-6, 6-2) led 39-29 at the half and were up 51-37 Read More
Already saddled with a four-game losing streak, the Ohio State men’s basketball team suffered another loss when it was announced Tuesday that sophomore forward Kyle Young will at least several weeks due to a stress fracture in his right leg.
Young (6-8, 205) started 12 of 17 games for the Read More
The longest losing streak of the Chris Holtmann era at Ohio State got longer on Friday night in Columbus.
The Buckeyes lost their fourth straight to No. 19 Maryland, 75-61, as the Terrapins shot a blistering 58.1 percentage from the floor, including 64.7 percent from behind the three-point arc. For Read More
After the Ohio State women’s basketball team knocked off No. 25 Indiana last Thursday and secured its first Big Ten win of the season, the Buckeyes rolled their momentum into Monday against Michigan State when they upended the No. 17 Spartans for a 65-55 triumph before 4,695 at Value City Read More
