COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — To hear Kam Williams tell it, the Ohio State Buckeyes have a lot of role players just waiting to shine when their time arrives. D’Angelo Russell scored 14 of his 19 points in the second half and Marc Loving added 17 points to lead No. 14 Ohio State to a 70-50 victory over Colgate on Saturday night. The Buckeyes (6-1) lost at No. 5 Louisville 64-55 in their last outing in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Tuesday night. Not until Williams, who chipped in with 11 points, capped an 11-0 surge with a four-point play with 5:03 left did Ohio State finally put the game away. “Some games, I hate to say it, but some people need to get picked up,” said Williams, a redshirt freshman who was a prolific scorer in high school in Baltimore. “You need your teammates to pick you up when you’re in a slump. That’s what we have going for us right now. When anyone’s in a little slump, we’re a close enough team that we can get them out of it.” The Buckeyes led 31-21 after an uneven first half in which their lone threat on offense was Loving, who before missing his final three-pointer was 3 for 3 from the field, 2 for 2 behind the arc and 4 for 4 at the line for 12 points. Ohio State broke out to a 10-0 lead, then quickly cooled and led just 23-19 before running off the next eight points. The Raiders (1-7) wouldn’t go away in the second half, hanging within 10 points most of the way. “You can’t give teams like Colgate an opportunity to linger around because then you’ll be in a dogfight,” Loving said. “We knew we had to go on a run eventually.” He scored and Williams’ hit a 3-pointer and was fouled, then made the free throw, to push the lead to 66-46. …
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