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...
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 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...
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...
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...
By Craig Merz Buoyed by the return from injury of senior guard Amber Stokes after missing four games and the continued excellent play of Tayler Hill, the Ohio State women gave No. 8 Penn State a scare but a nine-point halftime lead wasn”t enough as the Lady Lions roared...
With a 63-60 loss to the Wisconsin Badgers Sunday, the Ohio State Buckeyes fell to 11-5 in the Big Ten, and 23-6 on the season. The loss marked the team’s third loss in February, having already been defeated by Michigan and Michigan State earlier in the month. The game...