The Ohio State men’s basketball team seems to be still be suffering from the fallout after Thad Matta’s departure. Shortly after Chris Holtmann was named as the new head coach of the men’s basketball team earlier this month, two commits for the class of 2018 decided that OSU may...
It’s the Buckeye Leafcast, b-ball style! Normally reserved for football talk, me and the Intergalactic Buckeye Fan, Chris Stefanick, are joined by special guest (and TTUN fan) Brandon Richey! We wax poetic on the firing of Thad Matta, whether it was justified or not and is new coach Chris...
Newly hired Ohio State men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann wanted to make one thing clear during the official press conference held at the Schottenstein Center on Monday that introduced him as the new head coach: he will be putting an emphasis on getting back to recruiting the state of...
The Ohio State Buckeyes have hired Butler’s Chris Holtmann as its next men’s basketball coach. Holtmann will be the fourteenth coach in program history, succeeding Thad Matta who was let go on Monday after thirteen seasons with the program. Holtmann signed an eight-year contract work approximately $3.1 million per...
After thirteen seasons, Thad Matta’s time as the Ohio State Men’s basketball coach came to an end Monday afternoon as Athletic Director Gene Smith and Thad Matta announced Matta’s retirement in a press conference. Despite declining production over the last two years, four depending on which Ohio State fan...
On Wednesday afternoon, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith put to rest some of the rumors that have been swirling around the latter half of this season about head coach Thad Matta’s return for next year and put his official stamp of approval on Matta coming back next year....
On Marc Loving’s senior day, Ohio State couldn’t overcome it’s own lax defense and Indiana’s red hot offense as it drops the Big Ten regular season finale 96-92 at the Value City Arena. Indiana raced out to an 11-0 lead with just 2:18 gone in the first half. The...
The Ohio State Buckeyes ended a three game losing streak with their best performance of the season, an 83-73 upset of the 16th ranked Wisconsin Badgers, controlling the game from beginning to end. Ohio State moves to 16-13 on the season and 6-10 in Big Ten play with two...
The Ohio State Buckeyes avenged an early conference season loss at Minnesota with a 78-72 win at home behind a career high 19 points for Trevor Thompson to improve to 3-5 in Big Ten play. Unlike the game in Minneapolis on January 8th it was the Buckeyes who built...
It’s hard to call a mid-January game, the fifth of the Big Ten conference slate, a ‘must win’ game but that is exactly what today’s game against the Michigan State Spartans was for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Thad Matta’s team came into the game winless in their first four...
Ohio State’s second half comeback came up just short Thursday night against the 20th ranked Purdue Boilermakers, falling 76-75 at home. The Buckeyes (10-5, 0-2) led 36-35 with four minutes left in the first half before a Boilermakers 8-0 run gave them a 43-36 lead, highlighted by a five-point...
Former Ohio State player and assistant coach Chris Jent is officially a Buckeye again. Not that he was ever unofficially a Buckeye but it was formally announced today by the OSU athletic department that he has rejoined the program as an assistant coach. This marks the second time around...
If the Ohio State men’s basketball season were to start today, the starting lineup would look like this: PG – JaQuan Lyle (sophomore); SG – Kam Williams (fourth-year junior); SF – Jae’Sean Tate (junior); SF – Marc Loving (senior); PF – Keita Bates-Diop (junior). Not a bad starting lineup....
If starting both halves of their second round matchup of Sunday’s National Invitation Tournament game against the No. 2 seeded Florida Gators on the wrong end of 14-2 runs was any indication that 3rd-seeded Ohio State would have serious problems in winning the game, then you would be right....
The No. 3-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes survived a scare from sixth-seeded Akron in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament on Tuesday night and did just enough in overtime to stave off the Zips in Value City Arena, 72-63. Ohio State head coach Thad Matta said his guys...
Instead of dancing at the prom, this year’s Ohio State men’s basketball team is going to spring homecoming when they were picked as part of the 32-team field for the National Invitation Tournament. Since the modern era of the 64-team bracket, the selection committee has never shut out a...
The Big Ten Conference announced the lineup for the 2016 tournament bracket on Sunday and drawing the No. 1 seed is tenth-ranked Indiana (25-6, 15-3 Big Ten) with the second-ranked team in the country, Michigan State (26-5, 13-5), drawing the No. 2 seed. After finishing smack dab in the...
With their NCAA tournament hopes still on the bubble and only two games left in the regular season, Ohio State was needing a win to keep the bubble from popping. And on the last regular season home game of the year, their bubble kept floating as they got a...
Coming into Tuesday night’s game against Michigan State, Ohio State desperately needed a win worse than ever if they wanted to beef up their resume for the NCAA Tournament. They got a solid victory one week ago against Michigan when they handled the Wolverines for virtually the entire game,...
Maybe it was the fact that Evan Turner was being honored at halftime of Ohio State’s game against Michigan on Tuesday night that helped the Buckeyes get a sorely needed win to keep their NCAA tournament hopes alive. Maybe it was the magic they showed on the jumbotron that...
The last time Northwestern beat Ohio State in Columbus, Elvis was still alive and John Madden’s Oakland Raiders were fresh off of an NFL crowning win when they beat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI. It was almost 39 years to the day when the Wildcats walked out...
If the three-point line did not exist in college basketball, Ohio State may have had a chance to win their seventh Big Ten game of the season. Instead, their opponent in Wisconsin could not be stopped beyond the arc, hitting 13-of-27 on the night and drowned the Buckeyes, 79-68,...
Revenge is a dish best served cold. After getting embarrassed by Maryland earlier in the season when they suffered the worst loss of Thad Matta’s career, Ohio State was looking to avenge their 35-point spanking when they welcomed in the Terrapins to the Schottenstein Center on Sunday afternoon in...
It was another nail biter between Ohio State and Illinois on Thursday night but unlike the first showdown, in which the Buckeyes escaped a full-court buzzer-beating shot that would have given the Illini a one-point win in regulation, this one had to be settled in extra innings. In the...
Ohio State head coach Thad Matta needed to shake things up before Monday night’s game against Penn State and it showed as the Buckeyes beat the Nittany Lions, 66-46. As the two teams took center court for the tip, one guy who had started the previous 20 games for...
Click, click, click, click, click. That’s the sound of the Ohio State men’s basketball team’s roller coaster click-clacking their way up the steep hill that has been their trademark this season. But a funny thing happened on the way to their second straight loss after ending a four-out-of-the-last-five game...
First half, second half. Up, down. The roller coaster ride continued for the basketball Buckeyes and once again it was a tale of two halves for Ohio State, this time coming against Rutgers in Value City Arena on Wednesday night, putting together a second half where they outscored the...
Grimacing as he walked into the postgame press conference, it was understandable why. With two big bags of ice on each knee, Marc Loving had just come off a career-high 27 points in helping Ohio State knock off conference opponent Illinois in a thriller that came down to the...
Thad Matta, Ohio State head coach, announced Thursday freshman guard Austin Grandstaff has elected to transfer from the men’s basketball program. Grandstaff, a guard from Rockwall, Texas, appeared in 10 games for the Buckeyes for an average of 11.5 minutes per game. He averaged 4.4 points and connected on...
The Buckeyes no longer have a losing record and are officially on a winning streak after dispatching the Air Force Falcons 74-50. A strong but erratic first half was the key to Ohio State’s win, as they were able to hold the Falcons to just 16 points. That is...
Ohio State has lost at home this season to the likes of UT-Arlington and Louisiana Tech, but managed to improve tonight by losing to the tenth ranked Virginia 64-58. It is the team’s fourth loss in a row, but they improved in multiple areas that have been concerns this...
Fans knew this Ohio State team wouldn’t be as good as some in recent seasons. But no one predicted a start like this. The Buckeyes suffered their second loss of the season, losing to Louisiana Tech 82-74. This comes on the heels of a loss to UT-Arlington, another unranked,...
A devastating night on defense and from the free throw line led the Buckeyes to their first unranked, non-conference loss since 2008, falling to UT-Arlington 73-68. The Mavericks scored first in the game, giving Ohio State their first ever deficit of the season, but there wasn’t initially cause for...
The Buckeyes continued their early season domination by beating Grambling State 82-55. The matchup wasn’t anticipated to be a close one, as noted college basketball analyst Ken Pomeroy ranks the Tigers dead last in all of Division I basketball at 351st. Kam Williams lead the way off the bench,...
Ohio State opened up their season in dominant fashion, dispatching Mount St. Mary’s 76-54. Though the Mountaineers were able to keep it close in the second half, it was not enough to threaten the Buckeyes. The only downside to the young team’s performance were turnovers. Ohio State had 18,...
In the final game for five Ohio State Seniors, in a game that would’ve made Thad Matta the winningest coach in Buckeye history, OSU suffered a major letdown and was defeated by the Wisconsin Badgers 72-48. It was the lowest point total for the Buckeyes all season, and they...
Ohio State is used to slow starts this season. They are used to halftime deficits. And when they went into the locker room down 35-23, the fans thought the Buckeyes were on their way to another loss. But an astounding second half performance gave the team a 65-61 win...
After a two game losing streak on their Michigan road trip, the Buckeyes returned home and put the losses behind them, beating Nebraska 81-57. Ohio State started the game with high energy, something that they have struggled to do consistently this season. But there was no struggling today, as...
Earlier this season, Ohio State Sophomore Marc Loving was suspended from the team for an undisclosed violation of team rules. The original press release from the University said that Loving had, “Lost the privilege to wear the scarlet and gray.” Now, multiple sources involved with and close to the...
In their first meeting as conference opponents, Ohio State upset No. 16 Maryland 80-56. The Buckeyes defense was locked onto the Terrapins all night, holding them to just 30.5% for the night. OSU was also able to come away with 51 rebounds, a high for the season by a...
After losing in Bloomington earlier this month in a game they were favored in, Ohio State was able to best No. 23 Indiana by a final score of 82-70. The victory was easily the best of the season for the Buckeyes, as it is the first time this year...
While most fans minds were still on the football team and the recent national title, the Ohio State Buckeyes Men’s Basketball team beat Michigan Tuesday by a final score of 71-52. It was a dominating performance for an OSU team in need of conference victories. After falling to Indiana...
After dropping their Big Ten season opener at home against Iowa, Ohio State rebounded in good fashion, beating Illinois 77-61. Despite being down at halftime 37-36, the Buckeyes were able to lock down the Illini in the second half, limiting them to just 1-9 from three point range. The...
Ohio State’s third loss of the season came in a very similar fashion to the first two- a slow start in the first half followed by a manic dash in the second half that just wasn’t enough. The big difference is that this time, it came against an unranked...
With just three days to go before the start of Big Ten play, Ohio State defeated in-state opponent Wright State 100-55. D’Angelo Russell led the team with 24 points, mostly coming from beyond the arc. He shot 6-6 from three, a new freshman record for the Buckeyes. Russell also...
After a demoralizing loss to the University of North Carolina, Ohio State bounced back by obliterating the Miami University Redhawks 93-55. Kam Williams was the leading scorer for the Buckeyes with 18 points, 14 of which came in the second half. D’Angelo Russell had another standout game with 15...
Playing at a “neutral” site, Ohio State beat the North Carolina A&T Aggies 97-55 at Nationwide Arena. Playing at the home of the Columbus Blue Jacket’s satisfies the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament hosting requirement that any second or third round site also host at least one regular season game....
ROSEMONT, Ill. — The Big Ten Conference announced today an extensive agreement with Madison Square Garden to feature the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament in New York City for the first time in 2018, along with men’s basketball and hockey doubleheaders hosted by the legendary arena from 2016 through...
Ohio State beat Morehead State Saturday afternoon 87-71, but the final score was not indicative of the overall performance for the Buckeyes. Ohio State started slow, at one point allowing the Eagles to get within a basket of tying the game. But after the deficit was trimmed to just...
Five Ohio State players scored in double digits in the Buckeye’s 97-43 win over High Point. Kam Williams led the team with 23 points, followed by fellow freshman D’Angelo Russell who added 18, along with five assists and nine rebounds. The bench for Ohio State outpaced High Point by...