It’s been more than a decade since the Ohio State men’s basketball program has officially recognized team captains. © Barbara J. Perenic/Columbus Dispatch The Ohio State Buckeyes convene in a huddle during Sunday’s NCAA Division I Big Ten conference basketball game against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio, on February 28, 2021. Iowa won the game 73-57. That changes this year. Tuesday, the Buckeyes announced four captains for the 2021-22 season: fifth-year players Kyle Young and Justice Sueing, fourth-year player Justin Ahrens and third-year player E.J. Liddell. They are the first players to have their names listed as captains since Jamar Butler, Othello Hunter, David Lighty and Matt Terwilliger were honored for the 2007-08 season. In the meantime, it’s not that the Buckeyes haven’t had captains, it’s just that for reasons nobody quite understands they weren’t recorded for posterity. Subscribers only: Meechie Johnson ready to excite…
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