July 27, 2026

Building The Foundation: The 2005-06 Ohio State team gets started

Adam Jardy   | Buckeye Xtra It has been 15 years since a battle-hardened Ohio State team that was short on bodies but long on experience made a run to an outright 2006 Big Ten championship. Behind a senior quartet of Terence Dials, Je’Kel Foster, J.J. Sullinger and Matt Sylvester, the Buckeyes would compile a 26-6 record and earn their first outright league title in 14 years. To commemorate that season, The Dispatch is launching a season-long feature. Key periods or games will be recalled in online-only oral histories, allowing members of that 2005-06 Ohio State men’s basketball team to take you through the year as they saw it unfold. As the 2020-21 team continues its preseason with an eye on opening the regular season as soon as Nov. 25, this series gets underway with the Buckeyes beginning practice 15 years ago — or rather, a few months before that. Ohio…

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