June 24, 2026

Ohio State ready for 'Final Four'-caliber North Carolina at Madison Square Garden


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 In three-plus years of Division I basketball, Sean McNeil has been blessed to see some of the nation’s most storied venues. Kansas’ Phog Allen Fieldhouse, Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium and the Lahaina Civic Center are all bucket-list places for basketball devotees, and the Ohio State graduate transfer guard has played inside each of them. None of them quite top the experience McNeil said the No. 23 Buckeyes will have Saturday afternoon when they play North Carolina at Madison Square Garden as part of the CBS Sports Classic (3 p.m., CBS). “I’ve played in some pretty cool arenas, but this might be No. 1,” McNeil said. “Just the environment, you know when you’re in Madison Square Garden, The World’s…

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