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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Oregon used a late 8-0 run to come back from as many as 9 down in the second half and thanks to an extremely questionable late foul call, grabbed a 1 point lead with 7 seconds to play to escape Columbus with a 73-71 win sending Ohio State down to their 6th loss of the season, dropping the Buckeyes to 10-6 and 2-3 in conference play.
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Ohio State got back to playing winning basketball, going on the road and despite struggling offensively much of the night, brought home a 89-88 double-overtime victory over Minnesota in Minneapolis. The Buckeyes, winners of 4 out of their last 5, improved to 10-5, 2-2 while Minnesota lost their second straight and dropped to 8-7, 0-4. A game that featured 24
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18th ranked Michigan State came to Columbus winners of 6 straight and 9 out of 10 and after building a 14 point second half lead, Ohio State went on a 15-2 run to regain the lead at the 8 minute mark, but an 8-0 Spartan run put Michigan State ahead for good giving the Spartans got a huge road win, downing the Buckeyes, stopping their 3 game winning streak by a final score of 69-62.
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In their final non-conference test of the regular season, Ohio State slugged their way through a game that featured 51 combined fouls and 73 free throws, to pull away and down the visiting Indiana State Sycamores 103-83.
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Ohio State entered the day having lost two in a row and staring at a potential 0-2 start to the Big Ten season, but Bruce Thornton and Devin Royal would have none of that, combining for 44 of Ohio State’s 80 points leading the host Buckeyes to an 80-66 win over Rutgers.
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Week 14 had some shake ups, but the Buckeyes were not immune to it this week, and lost to Michigan. Here are our rankings prior to the week 5 rankings from the committee.
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