Basketball

Keita Bates-Diop showcased his basketball talent during an outstanding 2017-18 season at Ohio State. He is now giving NBA general managers, scouts and the like an up-close view of his skills at this year’s NBA draft combine, which started Wednesday and runs through Sunday, in Chicago.

On Thursday, Bates-Diop checked Read More

The CBS Sports Classic announced Thursday that Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio State and UCLA will compete in the annual event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in 2019.

On Dec. 21, 2019, Ohio State will face Kentucky while North Carolina will take on UCLA in the sixth edition of the Read More

Former Ohio State basketball players Jae’Sean Tate and Kam Williams will participate in the 2018 Professional Basketball Combine at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., on May 22 and 23 while also helping a good cause.

The two former Buckeyes will be a part of the inaugural Rising to the Challenge Read More

While the Ohio State women’s basketball team came up short of the Final Four at Nationwide Arena on March 30 and April 1, Columbus certainly delivered as the host site for the NCAA tournament.

A month and a half after Ohio’s capital capped a wild finish to the 64-team field, Read More

Once considered rivals, former players on the Ohio State and Michigan men’s basketball squads will team up this summer in The Basketball Tournament, a 72-team, single-elimination, winner-take-all event.

Former Buckeyes Andrew Dakich, who transferred from Michigan to Ohio State last summer, Jae’Sean Tate and Kam Williams will join former Read More

Justin Ahrens had been committed to Ohio State for more than nine months when OSU athletic director Gene Smith announced on June 5 that Thad Matta would no longer be the men’s basketball head coach.

One day later, Ahrens decommitted.

The Buckeyes then hired Chris Holtmann less than a week Read More

Ohio State men’s basketball head coach Chris Holtmann has said multiple times that he and his staff are placing an extra emphasis on the backcourt in the upcoming recruiting classes.

One of the point guards from the 2019 cycle they have targeted is Bettendorf, Iowa, four-star D.J. Carton. Read More