Looking at statistics only tells you so much about a game. For example, when you look at the final box score in Ohio State’s win over Penn State on Wednesday night, the first stat that leaps off the page is 17 turnovers, a season-high for the Buckeyes. What a box score wouldn’t highlight was a sloppy sequence at the end of the first half. Two turnovers in the final 20 seconds led to four quick Penn State points, which cut Ohio State’s lead in half heading into the locker room. “That’s just unacceptable,” Justice Sueing said about that sequence. “We can’t close out a half like that, turning the ball over and giving them two buckets. So, learning from that, we just have to take care of the ball, especially ending the half, and because that ultimately, I feel like, is what gave them that little boost in the second…
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