JaQuan Lyle is the lone remaining player from the Buckeyes’ highly ranked 2015 recruiting class. 5:30 PM ET It’s never too early to look at what’s to come. Over the next few weeks, we will give you a peek at what is ahead for teams in the Power 5 conferences and some other teams expected to be players on the national scene. Next up: Ohio State Buckeyes. Thad Matta’s youngest team in his 12-year tenure at Ohio State produced the kind of inconsistent results expected from a team with little experience. The Buckeyes were just 2-8 against teams with winning records in the Big Ten. Their intensity on the road often dipped, as evidenced by double-digit defeats in all of their road losses. That included a 100-65 beatdown at Maryland, which holds the dubious honor of the worst loss under Matta. Overall, it seemed like the perfect metaphor for the Buckeyes’ season was Jae’Sean Tate’s ill-timed floor slap against Nebraska. (While Tate was busy slapping the floor three times successively on defense, Nebraska’s Tai Webster drove right past him and was fouled in the act of shooting.) This was a team that was just too immature to get it right. Every now and again, though, the Buckeyes showed flashes of their potential…
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