COLUMBUS, OHIO — It wasn’t a completely shocking loss for the Ohio State basketball team, but it was an awful loss for the Ohio State basketball program. A bracket that appeared open for the first fun Buckeyes NCAA Tournament run in eight years collapsed on itself Friday. With a 75-72 overtime loss to No. 15 seed Oral Roberts in Ohio State’s first tournament game, fourth-year coach Chris Holtmann punted any benefit of the doubt and created a show-me season for 2021-22. This isn’t good enough. The Ohio State basketball standard is higher. After suffering one of the 10 worst upset losses by seed in NCAA Tournament history (the Buckeyes were the ninth No. 2 seed to lose to a No. 15, and a No. 1 has lost to a No. 16 once), Holtmann has a touchstone for his most disappointing day as Ohio State’s head coach. Time for a peak…
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