COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State basketball team went into the Big Ten Tournament with some goals it needed to accomplish to secure a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Not only did the Buckeyes check off every single objective, but they also took things a step further by being a few costly turnovers away from beating Illinois on Sunday and winning their first conference championship since 2013. Things weren’t pretty, but they did enough even to have some of our Buckeye Talk text subscribers (sign up below) asking if they could potentially move up to a No. 1 seed if they’d won on Sunday. “Anybody who cares about the program, former players, we try as hard as we can to make proud,” coach Chris Holtmann said. “They carry that with them. They carry the weight of making every former Buckeye proud. Every every Buckeye fan, everybody who loves…
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