COLUMBUS, Ohio — The future of Ohio State basketball was laid out in a loss before a half-empty arena on Thursday night as freshmen played about half the Buckeyes’ minutes. There could be promise in that future. There’s also peril. You could see young players that maybe — maybe — will get the Buckeyes back on track next season. You could also see vanishing interest in a team at risk of alienating more fans who don’t see reasons to invest in this program. The basketball Buckeyes are missing so much right now, it’s stunning for a program this established to be this lacking. They haven’t quit, but they aren’t connected. They aren’t broken, because this roster of freshmen and transfers was never truly assembled. They’re lost. Sometimes when you’re lost, it’s a quick scare but a quicker fix, a left here, a right there, and you’re back to familiar territory,…
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