Ohio State was up one with 28 seconds to play in the Big Ten Tournament semifinal on Saturday. Michigan had a chance to win the game. “Doggone it, do we make it interesting,” Buckeye head coach Chris Holtmann said after the game. The narrative continues to be that the Scarlet and Gray struggle — and that’s putting it mildly — to hold on to leads. That narrative is correct and was proven again on Saturday by the fact that Mike Smith had a chance to win the game for the Wolverines, despite Ohio State leading by as many as 13 points with just over four minutes to play in the game. But it’s not the only narrative that has come out of the Buckeyes’ run to the final game of the Big Ten Tournament. In the first meeting against Michigan on Feb. 21, the Wolverines scored 92 points on 53.4…
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