COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Chris Holtmann entered his first season at Ohio State he was taking over a team that had gone 17-15 in its final season under its most successful head coach. One of the positives about taking over a new college team can be if the team already has a handful of upperclassmen for you to lean on. Holtmann had that in Keita Bates-Diop, Kam Williams and Jae’Sean Tate. For a guy in his first year of trying to implement his identity on a program, it was nice to be coming to a team that could already answer some questions personnel-wise. Holtmann knew who his go-to guy would be in Bates-Diop, who his starting backcourt would be in Williams and C.J. Jackson and he knew — somewhat — who would be his future guy in then-freshman Kaleb Wesson. But if there was one player who would play the…
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