COLUMBUS, Ohio — This Ohio State’s men’s basketball season is a failure, and there’s no nice way to dress that up. 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 recruiting class was supposed to finally provide that jump that fans had waited five years to see. Instead, the program has 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 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 deep NCAA Tournament run. It shaped how they used the…
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