Ben Frederickson E.J. Liddell was on the court. Of course. Where else would he be? It was 20 minutes or so before the Ohio State men’s basketball team needed to be ready for one of this week’s practices, which meant the best place to find the junior forward was practicing. Before practice. “Last game, Coach (Chris) Holtmann told me somebody was subbing me out,” Liddell said this week during a Zoom call, after taking a brief break from his pre-practice practice. “I was like, ‘Why?'” Of all the impressive things the Belleville West High graduate and Post-Dispatch all-metro player of his decade has accomplished this season, the least discussed but perhaps most important one is his uptick in minutes logged. Holtmann is relying on his 6-foot-7, 240-pound MVP for more than 31 minutes per game, and that impressive average for a forward is growing along with Liddell’s production as Ohio…
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