COLUMBUS, Ohio — The last time the Ohio State basketball program played a game inside Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana, it walked away in disappointment. With COVID turning March Madness into a tournament held within the Indiana state lines in 2021, Purdue’s facilities hosted a first-round game in which the No. 2 seed Buckeyes suffered a devastating loss to No. 15 Oral Roberts. Sunday, facing the Boilermakers at Mackey offers a chance to create better memories. “It’s human nature when you walk through those doors the memories that you carry from last March 19. I don’t think those will ever leave us,” assistant coach Ryan Pedon said on Saturday. “But at the end of the day, this is a whole different chapter. A whole different year. It’ll probably ring a bell with you, but do I think it’ll have any bearing on tomorrow’s game? To be honest, I don’t.”…
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