Ohio State had been performing pretty poorly in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge up until recently. They lost each season from 2014-2018, which includes losses to Louisville, Clemson, Syracuse, and two against Virginia. Since then, they’ve won two in a row, beating the breaks off of North Carolina in 2019 and then beating Notre Dame last season. But to make it three in a row on Nov. 30, Ohio State will have to beat one of the all-time greats when Mike Krzyzewski and the Duke Blue Devils travel to Columbus on November 30. Chris Holtmann has never coached against Krzyzewski, but Ohio State does have a (limited) history against the Blue Devils. They’re 3-4 all-time against Duke, with their most recent meeting coming in the 2012 Big Ten-ACC Challenge, with Duke walking away victorious, 73-68. Holtmann was still the head coach at Gardner-Webb that season, and was five years away from…
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