The Ohio State Buckeyes men’s basketball team continued their hot start to open the 2018-19 season as they went on the road and won their second game of the season against a top-45 KenPom rated team. After opening up the slate against Cincinnati and Purdue Fort Wayne, the Buckeyes went to Omaha, Neb. and beat the Creighton Bluejays, 69-60, on Thursday night. As part of the Big Ten vs. Big East Gavitt Tipoff Games, the OSU program was facing off against a coach that very well could have been on the opposite sideline in Greg McDermott. In 2017, following the firing of Thad Matta, OSU athletic director Gene Smith approached then-Butler coach Chris Holtmann about the opening. Unsure if he wanted to leave Butler, Smith turned his attention to McDermott, before Holtmann decided that he was ready to move to Columbus. And, while I think that McDermott would also have…
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