COLUMBUS, Ohio — After Friday’s Carrier Classic was canceled due to condensation problems on the court, the No. 4 Ohio State men’s basketball team was forced to wait another day and a half to officially start its season. So the 15 minutes it took the Buckeyes to play the basketball that they expect to this season seemed like nothing.
After a sluggish start that saw Ohio State trailing with fewer than five minutes remaining in the first half, the Buckeyes used a 17-2 run to close the half to propel them to an 82-60 win over Albany on Sunday, and thus a 1-0 start to the season.
Reminiscent of the way that they stumbled out of the gates in their exhibition win over Walsh two weeks ago, the Buckeyes looked like a team still finding itself in the first 15 minutes of the game, falling behind 23-22 to the Great Danes after Albany forward Sam Rowley converted an uncontested layup with 4:46 remaining in the first half. That play forced an angry Thad Matta to call a timeout, where the OSU coach replaced starting center Evan Ravenel with sophomore big man Amir Williams.
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