Show Caption Hide Caption Video: Ohio State’s Chris Holtmann talks Isaac Likekele, UNC and more Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann’s full press conference from Dec. 12, 2022. Adam Jardy, The Columbus Dispatch There’s an art to assembling a men’s college basketball schedule. Between previously scheduled non-conference events, ever-lengthening conference commitments and multi-team events scheduled around Thanksgiving, the annual task is full of pitfalls that aren’t always evident when the final product is published. And sometime a team plans for something that never materializes. Right now, that’s where No. 23 Ohio State sits, nearly at the midway point of an unplanned, nine-day gap between games. Why did the Buckeyes host Rutgers last Thursday without another game until this Saturday, when they go to Madison Square Garden to face North Carolina in the CBS Sports Classic? As it turns out, the reasons have a lot to do with the Big Ten’s expansion…
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