COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State basketball had a chance to pull out another win over a top-ranked college basketball program, but it instead fumbled away a lead late, losing to Purdue, 71-69. A late 3-pointer from Sean McNeil (7 points) should’ve been the end of things with his team up 69-66. But the Buckeyes had a few blunders that allowed the Boilermakers to take a two-point lead with 6.4 left to play. Then OSU failed even to get up a good shot en route to its first conference loss. Recommended Buckeyes stories The first blunder was failing to inbound the ball when Purdue made it 69-68. Doing so gave the Boilermakers the ball back and a chance to take the lead, which they took full advantage of with Fletcher Loyer (11 points) knocking down a 3 that gave them the lead for good. What could’ve been a third win over…
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