Making their first-ever trip to Rutgers, the 20th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes clash with the Scarlet Knights in Big Ten Conference action on Sunday. Piscataway, NJ (SportsNetwork.com) – Making their first-ever trip to Rutgers, the 20th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes clash with the Scarlet Knights in Big Ten Conference action on Sunday. The Buckeyes closed out the month of January with three straight wins, but earlier this week the squad was taken down by Purdue on the road, 60-58, which means OSU is now 6-4 in conference play. While Ohio State is among the top teams in the league, the Scarlet Knights find themselves near the bottom of the standings with only two wins in 11 opportunities. In addition to struggling against the rest of the Big Ten, Rutgers is one of only two teams in the league, the other being Northwestern, that has a losing record overall. Rutgers is currently suffering a seven-game slide, last winning against Wisconsin in a major upset (67-62) at home on Jan. 11. More recently, the team was tossed aside by Illinois on the road five days ago, 66-54. According to Rutgers sources, this is just the second all-time meeting between the two schools on the hardwood, with the Knights posting a 97-96 win in triple-overtime versus OSU to win the Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 30, 1978. D’Angelo Russell came away with 20 points for the Buckeyes in the latest outing, but his final shot of the game against Purdue was the most crucial and it missed the mark. In a game that featured five ties and 12 lead changes, the only other player to score in double figures for Ohio State was Amir Williams who tallied 10 points. Russell filled out his stat line with seven rebounds, five assists and a couple of steals in the losing effort. Russell, who has scored at least 20 points a total of 10 times this season, has reached double figures in all but one of 23 outings for the Buckeyes…
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