The Ohio State Buckeyes were supposed to struggle on the hardwood during head men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann’s first season at the helm in 2018-19. They didn’t, to say the least. Even so, they were supposed to struggle this season. Whether it was due to losing players such as Keita Bates-Diop, Jae’Sean Tate, or Kam Williams, or Ohio State’s entire five-player 2015 recruiting class — four-stars JaQuan Lyle, Daniel Giddens, Austin Grandstaff, A.J. Harris, and Mickey Mitchell — would have been seniors and all transferred from the program within two years of being on campus, the Buckeyes were without a ton of talented players this year.1 Even though they were expected to struggle this year, the scarlet and gray had a solid first two months of the season, starting 12-1, with key non-conference wins over Cincinnati, Creighton, and UCLA. Then the calendar flipped to 2019 and the Buckeyes struggled mightily in January.…
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