If a good defense beats a good offense, it might be time to start thinking about this Ohio State offense as elite once again. Needing to replace its primary ballhandlers from a team that finished with the nation’s No. 4 team in adjusted offensive efficiency according to KenPom.com, Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann spent much of the preseason stressing that these Buckeyes had a chance to be pretty good offensively but might struggle to reach last year’s numbers. Then, on Friday, Holtmann looked at the challenge that No. 22 Wisconsin posed in Saturday’s Big Ten home opener for the No. 21 Buckeyes and described the Badgers as “elite” defensively. Despite a rash of first-half turnovers, Ohio State put up 73 points against a team that had held five of its first nine opponents below 60 and built a 23-point second-half lead in an 18-point win. The performance moved the Buckeyes…
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