COLUMBUS, Ohio — The shooter Ohio State needs will be at this year’s Final Four. Only he won’t be wearing Scarlet and Gray. Not yet anyway. Austin Grandstaff, the Texas native who signed as a member of the Buckeyes’ 2015 recruiting class in November, will participate in the American Family Insurance High School Three-Point Championships on March 31 in Indianapolis. • Born to be a Longhorn: How Ohio State stole ’15 SG Austin Grandstaff from Texas The contest will be held four days before this year’s Final Four in Indy. Grandstaff — a 6-foot-5, four-star shooting guard — committed in May 2014 because he felt the Buckeyes needed a knock-down shooter like him. He’s going to Indy to show why he’s so confident in his shooting abilities. “I’m not going there to have fun,” Grandstaff told Northeast Ohio Media Group by phone from Texas on Thursday. “I’m going there to win.” Grandstaff averaged 29 points per game this year for Rockwall High School, missing four games with an MCL strain. He shot 33 percent from three-point range, knocking down 102 of 305 attempts. That’s a number Grandstaff isn’t happy with, and not an accurate reflection of how well he actually shoots it. “Austin is a better shooter than Jon (Diebler) was in high school,” Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said at November’s signing day. “Jon made himself the best shooter in college basketball. I think Austin shoots it better today than he did.” That’s a lofty comparison for Matta to make for a player who hasn’t played a second of college basketball yet, particularly to a guy who is Ohio’s all-time high school leading scorer and Ohio State’s all-time leader in three-pointers made…
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