COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State’s basketball season is a failure and there’s no nice way to dress that up so I’ll spare you from trying to find one. Until now there had been reason to have optimism about where the program was going under Chris Holtmann even if it would annually have an anticlimactic finish to seasons. A top 10 ranked recruiting class was supposed to finally provide that jump that fans had waited five years to see. Instead, it slid backward and is now one of the worst teams in the Big Ten. There are numerous on-court reasons for that, but the common denominator for all of those reasons boils down to a roster construction based on an optimistic outlook that never came to fruition. The Buckeyes made a mistake last summer thinking that a young-but-talented group of freshmen would eventually take off and lead this team on a…
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