Watch Now: After surviving scares in their final nonconference games, Rutgers and host Ohio State can focus solely on the Big Ten again beginning Wednesday in Columbus. Rutgers (8-4, 0-1 Big Ten) needed a 3-pointer by Derek Simpson with 15 seconds left for a 59-58 win over lowly Stonehill (2-13) on Saturday to avoid an embarrassing home loss. Scarlet Knights forward Aundre Hyatt said coach Steve Pikiell had a simple postgame message. “He was like, ‘A win is a win,’ we’ve got to move on to Ohio State and get ready for them because it’s a whole different weight class, the Big Ten,” Hyatt said. The Buckeyes (11-2) won their third straight, downing West Virginia 78-75 in overtime in Cleveland on Saturday in a game that gave Ohio State flashbacks to its conference loss at Penn State on Dec. 9. In that game, they led by 18 points in the…
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