Numbers aside, Chris Holtmann does not believe all lengthy midseason layoffs are created equal. Thursday night, No. 16 Ohio State will return to game action at Minnesota. It will be the first game for the Buckeyes since hosting IUPUI on Jan. 18, a 46-point blowout that allowed Holtmann to rest his starters and empty the bench. When Nebraska’s roster was impacted by COVID-19, the game between the two teams scheduled for four days later was postponed. Ohio State’s nine-day layoff isn’t even half as long as the one it endured in mid-December, when the virus handed the Buckeyes a 22-day break, but it’s another stop in what has become an erratic schedule. The hope is that the effects of this one won’t be quite as pronounced as the last time. “The layoff before, we had a lot of guys who just couldn’t practice for 10-12 days,” Holtmann said. “While we’ve…
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