COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State basketball team won a game on Sunday while its head coach Chris Holtmann and lead assistant Ryan Pedon watched from home after entering COVID-19 health and safety protocols. During a Saturday practice, the team found out during a Zoom meeting that it would face Northwestern without Holtmann and his longest-tenured staff member. Without them, Jake Diebler took over in what was his first game as a head coach at any level. After his head coaching debut, he spent the postgame press conference crediting everybody else for the 95-87 win. “Obviously, give our upperclassmen a ton of credit,” Diebler said. “Yesterday and today, the message was they were gonna have to be the guys that led this. Obviously, Coach Holtmann’s ability to build this program and the culture of this program combined with the upperclassmen that we have that have been through some battles. We…
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