Ohio State Buckeyes guard Malaki Branham has been waking up at 4:25 a.m. to make 5 a.m. workouts with his personal trainer, Jason Dawson. There’s a different sound to a basketball bouncing in an empty arena. Malaki Branham knows. So does Jason Dawson, Branham’s longtime trainer. And on Wednesday morning, three days before Christmas, the two tested out the acoustics of an otherwise empty Value City Arena for what has become a customary 5 a.m. workout. With the auxiliary lights casting dim lighting on the main court, the only interruption to an otherwise silent morning was the heating system, the squeaks of Branham’s scarlet and white Nikes and the pounding of the basketball on the hardwood. It’s not the filled-to-the-rafters cacophony of sound Branham and his Ohio State teammates experienced less than a month ago as they took down No. 1 Duke, or the constant stream of chatter, whistles and…
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