The Ohio State Buckeyes’ student-athletes often excel on the field, but many of them were recognized for their success in the classroom on Wednesday. The Big Ten Conference announced that a conference-best 164 student-athletes from The Ohio State University were given Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades. The 164 honorees are also an Ohio State record, surpassing the 131 students recognized in 2018-2019. This is also the fifth consecutive year that the Buckeyes have led the conference in this category. Here is the complete list of all student-athletes that were honored by the league office. To qualify as a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, a student must have earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in the previous academic year, must have been enrolled full time at the institution for the entire previous academic year (two semesters or three quarters) and earned a minimum GPA of 3.70 or better during the previous academic year, excluding any…
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