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2 weeks ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images After a no-good, very bad April Fool’s day earlier this week, the Ohio State men’s basketball program had a much better April Third day on the roster front. At about 7:45 a.m. head coach Jake Diebler announced during a quick radio interview that he’s expecting Thornton to go through with the NBA Draft process and then ultimately return to Ohio State for his senior season.
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3 weeks ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images Ohio State isn’t playing in the NCAA Tournament (again), but in a weird way, the FOMO isn’t as bad as we thought it would be. That’s partially because the Buckeyes have jumped on the transfer portal early — two Buckeyes have left the program via transfer (Austin Parks and Evan Mahaffey), and one has joined the team (Gabe Cupps). As of Friday morning, Ohio State only had one open spot remaining on the 2025-2026 roster.
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1 month ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Photo by Jason Mowry/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Welcome to the madness, friends. March Madness, transfer portal madness, the madness of wearing a jacket to work in the morning because it’s chilly, but not needing it by the afternoon because the temperature jumped 20 degrees by the time you head home — welcome all of it.
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1 month ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Robert Goddin-Imagn Images Well, that wasn’t how the season was supposed to end. The 2024-25 season blew in like a lion, with Ohio State bombing 14 three-pointers against Texas on Nov. 4 in a win over the Longhorns, and out like a lamb, losing five of their last seven games and almost certainly missing the NCAA Tournament yet again. The bar was set fairly low for Jake Diebler in Year 1 — just make the tournament.
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1 month ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images We’ve got a heavyweight matchup in Bloomington this Saturday as the Ohio State Buckeyes (17-13, 9-10) take on the Indiana Hoosiers (18-12, 9-10) with a spot in the NCAA Tournament on the line. As of early Friday morning, both Ohio State and Indiana were listed as 11-seeds in Bracket Matrix. Both teams were also listed among the final four teams in, which would send them both to Dayton for the First Four if it was to shake out that way.
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2 months ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images Well, the vibes have certainly done a sharp 180 over last four days, huh? Just over a week ago, Ohio State pounded Washington to get back to an even 7-7 in Big Ten play, and an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament was in its sights. Since then, the Buckeyes lost two home games to Michigan and Northwestern to fall back to 7-9 in conference play, and more importantly they picked up their 11th and 12th losses of the year.
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2 months ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Inch by inch, the Ohio State men’s basketball team (15-10, 7-7) is getting closer to an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Their 24-point win over the Washington Huskies on Wednesday night didn’t improve their resume much, but in the very least they didn’t lose the Quad-3 landmine game at home. The Buckeyes have six games remaining on the schedule — three at home, three on the road.
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2 months ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images Hoo boy, how about that Maryland game? After trailing by 17 points at one point, Ohio State crawled back slowly over the next 30 minutes, taking the lead with two minutes left and hanging on to improve to 6-6 in Big Ten play. As Kaleb Wesson once said, “There’s no easy wins in the Ten.” But with that said, Ohio State only has one ranked team remaining on its schedule — Roddy Gayle and the Wolverines on Feb. 16. They have four home games and four road games.
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2 months ago | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Matthew O’Haren-Imagn Images “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated” - Mark Twain, 1897. Like Twain’s haters over a century ago, some people from within the very borders of our great state wrote off this Ohio State team weeks ago when they were 2-5 in Big Ten play and looked incapable of running an out of bounds play to save their life. Were they crazy to come to that conclusion? Eh, maybe not.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
landgrantholyland.com | Connor Lemons |Justin Golba
Alex Martin/Journal and Courier / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images As we all expected, Ohio State split their two games over the past week, although it didn’t shake out exactly how we thought it would. After dropping a very winnable game at home to Indiana on Friday night, the Buckeyes traveled to West Lafayette, Indiana on Tuesday night. Against all odds, Ohio State upset the 11th-ranked Boilermakers, 73-70, to avoid sinking to 2-6 in Big Ten play.
