Thursday’s scare against Minnesota might just be exactly what the Buckeyes needed. Entering the Big Ten Tournament on a 4-game losing streak, the team certainly would be willing to take a win any way they could muster one. But the idea of winning a close game that nearly turned into a disastrous loss is perhaps the exact kind of feeling you want your team to leave with in the opening game of the tournament. After an amazingly consistent (and successful) stretch of basketball, the Buckeyes have shown they are vulnerable over the last two weeks. Beating Minnesota in a nail-biter when the lead was once 14 points late in the second half I think is precisely what OSU needed as they prepare for a third meeting with Purdue. The fifth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes are projected to be a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament, should that tournament have opened…
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