Sam Thompson was sitting in Italy when his phone flashed with an incoming FaceTime call. © Darron Cummings, AP Ohio State’s Aaron Craft (4) and Sam Thompson celebrate late in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana, Tuesday, March 5, 2013, in Bloomington, Ind. Ohio State won 67-58. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Looking down, he saw it was from Jake Diebler, the assistant men’s basketball coach at Ohio State who was the program’s video coordinator while Thompson played for the Buckeyes. And when he answered, Thompson was part of a three-way call with former classmate Shannon Scott that came with a sales pitch from Diebler. For more than a decade, Ohio State’s former players have largely returned to campus during the summer for legendary, closed open-gym runs. What if, Diebler asked, the coaching staff was to make it a formal event this year, complete with workouts, a…
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