WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Ohio State basketball team took a significant step back as a program following a 75-72 overtime loss to Oral Roberts. This looked like a team that was ready to take that next step and finally get to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament. The Buckeyes had yet to do that under Chris Holtmann and hadn’t done so as a program since 2015. Instead, a year in which they put together a 10-1 stretch, climbed as high as No. 4 in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll and reached the Big Ten Championship Game ends in failure. None of those other achievements matter when you become the ninth No. 2 seed to lose to a No. 15 seed in the tournament. A loss like this isn’t a fireable offense. Holtmann shouldn’t even be on the hot seat. But it’s sufficiently alarming that people will keep…
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