In what is likely a dagger to Ohio State’s tournament hopes, the Buckeyes played maybe their worst game of the season as a bad and undermanned Northwestern team came to Columbus and held Ohio State to a season low scoring output, stunning the host Buckeyes 70-49 snapping a streak that saw Northwestern lose 8 straight previous conference road contests and
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In the first of a critical stretch of three straight home games, the Buckeyes took care of business in game one, using a red hot shooting first half to build a 15 point halftime lead that bulged to as large as 30 en route to a 93-69 demolition of Washington in the Schott. The Buckeyes improve to 15-10, 7-7 while
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Ohio State came in having won 4 out of 5, but the road in the Big Ten is always difficult. Despite building an 8 point lead early in the second half, Nebraska weathered the storm using a 14-2 run midway through the second half to regain the lead and held on to turn away the visiting Buckeyes 79-71, to win
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18th ranked Maryland came into Columbus riding a 4 game winning streak and having already beaten the Buckeyes handily back in December. For most of the game, it looked to be more of the same as Maryland built a 17 first half lead and led by 11 with just over 7 minutes to play, but Ohio State finished the game
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The three game winning streak is no more. Playing without Sean Stewart, out with a sickness, Ohio State played mostly undersized against a big Illinois team and despite building a lead as large as 11, could not complete the road upset as the Illini used a 15-0 run in the latter half of the second half to take a lead
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Ohio State went on the road to State College, PA and left with their 2nd straight road win and 3rd straight overall, leading for the majority of the game to down host Penn State 83-64. In a game played in the intimate setting of Rec Hall, the 7,200 seat former home of the Nittany Lions, the Buckeyes pulled away midway
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Make it back to back wins for the Ohio State men’s basketball team, winning two in a row for the first time since late December, never trailing, pounding visiting Iowa 82-65. The Buckeyes, who won a home conference game for just the 2nd time and first since mid December, snapped a three game home losing streak and improved to 12-8,
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Ohio State stopped their 3 game losing streak, roaring back from a 13 point halftime deficit and as many as 16 down in total, out scoring Purdue 20-4 in the opening 8 minutes of the second half to take their first lead and although they fell behind again by as many as 6, they finished the final 5:56 on an
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Ohio State out scored Indiana 13-3 in the final 5:12 of regulation to force overtime, overcoming an early 14-6 Hoosier burst that turned a game that Ohio State controlled for much of the first half, but the Hoosiers hit a three with 1 minute to play that turned out to be the game winner as Indiana gave Ohio State their
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In what is always a difficult venue for any road opponent, the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin was no different on this night as Ohio State lost for the 3rd time in 4 games, falling to the host Badgers 70-68 to slip to 10-7 and 2-4. Wisconsin won their 6th straight and improved to 14-3 and 4-2 in Big Ten
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