Basketball

With a sizable amount of roster turnover since the end of last season, Ohio State men’s basketball head coach Chris Holtmann has said more than once that sophomore-to-be Kyle Young will play a critical role in the 2018-19 campaign.

Ohio State parted ways with Keita Bates-Diop, who was selected in Read More

The Ohio State men’s basketball team is taking a trip to Spain from Aug. 1-11 where it will play three games while also doing plenty of sight-seeing. Before departing, the Buckeyes, who welcomed six new players to the squad this offseason, are allowed to practice 10 times. They completed practice Read More

D.J. Carton ended his recruitment on Saturday when he committed to Ohio State. The five-star point guard from Bettendorf, Iowa, who had nearly 20 scholarship offers trimmed his list to six in May and then to three on July 8, including the Buckeyes both times.

His high school head Read More

Entering his second year as the Ohio State men’s basketball team’s head coach, Chris Holtmann is already showing how strong of a recruiter he is.

D.J. Carton, a five-star point guard in the 2019 class from Bettendorf, Iowa, announced his commitment to the Buckeyes on Saturday afternoon.

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— DJ Carton (@DJCarton) July 14, 2018

Carton, the Read More

After receiving guidance from a veteran player during his first year on the Ohio State men’s basketball team, C.J. Jackson has now become a mentor for a younger teammate on the squad.

Jackson joined the Buckeyes in the spring of 2016 as a junior college point guard who played his Read More

Andrew Dakich left Michigan last summer to join the Ohio State men’s basketball team as a graduate transfer. The former walk-on purposely sat out one of his four years in Ann Arbor so he would have the option to be a grad transfer and earn more playing time at a Read More

Talor Battle is a native of Albany, N.Y., who played his high school basketball at Bishop Maginn. He went on to play collegiately at Penn State from 2007-11, averaging 16.5 points in 134 career games for the Nittany Lions.

From there, Battle played professionally overseas for seven teams before retiring Read More

Greg Oden plans on making a long-awaited return to the hardcourt, but his teammates will have to take care of business to make it happen.

Along with Jared Sullinger, Oden was added to Scarlet and Gray’s roster on Monday as the team comprised mostly of former Ohio State basketball players Read More

Ohio State hoops legends Greg Oden and Jared Sullinger never played for the Buckeyes at the same time, but they’ll team up in the school colors this summer.

Oden, who helped the Buckeyes to the NCAA Championship game in 2007, and Sullinger, who spent 2010-12 in Columbus, agreed to join Read More

The four freshmen on the Ohio State men’s basketball team reported to campus at the beginning of June and have had positive first impressions, according to junior-to-be Andre Wesson.

OSU’s 2018 recruiting class, which the 247Sports composite ranks No. 25 in the country, features forwards Justin Ahrens from Versailles, Ohio, Read More