mendensa said:

I don't mean to sound so negative and throw shade at these young men, but what OSU football season were you watching? There was literally no movement or push up front for the majority of the season. Jordan's struggles getting the ball back are well documented on this site and contributed to some of the OL's issues. Leverage and hip bend was mediocre at best, and they went 4-5 games in the middle of the season where they were averaging 2 yards per carry. That is not acceptable at OSU. *ichigan game, parts of NW game and Rose Bowl were much better.

Now pass blocking....... that's a different story. With the exception of a couple game relapse from Prince, the pass pro was pretty solid most of the year.

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BN $ - Ohio State 5-star offer too late? That is anything but the case

Offered a week ago, his coach says OSU will definitely make his top 10 and they plan to visit either in February or the summer.

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He will improve there.

An Ohio State antenna is helping us see one of the oldest objects in our solar system: BTN LiveBIG
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From Ultima Thule to Earth, Buckeye tech is helping us explore the outer edges of our galactic neighborhood.

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kujirakira said:

Arent they all really Arbitrators playing dress up?

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yep.

Although, I should say the guy who presided over divorce court back in the 80s... William Keene... was the original Judge in the Mason murders case and also presided over the trial of serial killer William Bonin, sentencing him to death before doing the divorce court gig... which wasn't real law talkin... it was mostly re-enactments and the like.

Brady, Brees highlight 35 former B1G stars on AFC, NFC title game rosters
Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor via Big Ten Network

Thirty-five former Big Ten stars, not including Maryland, Nebraska or Rutgers players who were in school before entering the conference, are on AFC and NFC Championship Game rosters. See the full list inside.

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Serious response this time:

tOSU football: 9
tOSU Lacrosse: 1 Not sure that I'd ever see that in my lifetime... but would love to see it once. Came damn close a couple of years ago, but UMD and their destiny was just too much of a buzz saw.

Steve19 said:

Coach needs to get a handle on his team and the team needs to revisit fundamentals.

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Agree completely. This team needs to get a lot more fundamentally sound. I miss Bo Ryan basketball lol

Big Ten Power Rankings: Surging Terrapins move up to No. 3
Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor via Big Ten Network

Outside of undefeated Michigan and Michigan State, no team's playing better than Maryland. The Terrapins, behind Big Ten player of the week Bruno Fernando, are on a roll, winners of five in a row.

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Ohio State to host standout linemen next weekend
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The Buckeyes will have at least two highly sought after linemen in Columbus soon.

While spending time with family and friends over the weekend did you miss out on some of the latest news from the world of Ohio State football recruiting?

Don’t fret. Land-Grant Holy Land is here to save the day.

2019 OL changes OSU visit plans


Formally scheduled to make the trek from Indiana to Columbus to officially visit with newly hired head coach Ryan Day and the rest of the Ohio State Buckeyes football coaching staff this weekend, one of the top remaining offensive lineman in the class of 2019 had to switch his plans around.

Due to the winter weather that hit the Central Ohio area, three-star tackle Dawand Jones of Ben Davis High in Indianapolis will now head to the OSU campus this upcoming weekend to mingle with Day and company.

The athletic, 6-foot-8, 360-pound Jones locked in his scholarship offer from Ohio State in November. Picking up around 20 full rides so far during the process, Auburn and USC are just a couple of the programs the Buckeyes find themself up against in the hunt for the underrated Jones.

Will Jones join fellow 2019 offensive linemen Harry Miller (signed), Ryan Jacoby (signed), and Doug Nester (verbal) in the Buckeyes’ class? Stick with Land-Grant Holy Land for the latest.

Buckeyes to host 2021 standout


Jones won’t be the only highly rated offensive lineman taking time out of his busy schedule to visit the Ohio State University campus this upcoming weekend.

Also planning to head to Columbus is Damascus (MD) class of 2021 center Ryan Linthicum.


One of the first lineman from the class of 2021 to receive an opportunity to suit up in the historic Scarlet and Gray, Linthicum, a high school teammate of 2020 OSU defensive end target Bryan Bresee, has more than just the Buckeyes trying to bring him into the fold.

Picking up interest almost daily, Maryland, Michigan, Pittsburgh, and Virginia have also handed the 6-foot-4, 275-pounder a chance to continue his education and athletic career at their program.

Quick Hits

• According to Jake Weingarten, Ohio State checked out five-star class of 2021 shooting guard Terrence Clarke, among other prospects. Clarke, a Brewster Academy product holds offers from a long list of college programs including UConn, Georgetown, and Indiana.
• Rockwall (TX) four-star class of 2020 wide receiver and OSU verbal commit Jaxon Smith-Njigba was offered by Texas A&M on Saturday.

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Bestbuck36 said:

That was awful. Burn it

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Probably should do the same for yesterday's game. I do not know which one was worse.

As the 2018 season ends, we enter yet another cruel offseason
Patrick Mayhorn via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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With another season behind us, it’s time to reflect, grieve, and move forward

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“[….] no one of the Achaians labored as much as Odysseus labored and achieved, and for him the end was grief for him, and for me a sorrow that is never forgotten for his sake, how he is gone so long, and we knew nothing of whether he is alive or dead.” (4.106-110) - The Odyssey

It didn’t really hit me until Clemson players were celebrating on that awful Levi Stadium field after one last handoff right into the corpse of Alabama’s defense that college football had once again come to an end. The mid-week G5 games, the primetime ABC game of the week broadcasts, the midnight Hawaii kickoffs, all of it, over, yielding yet another lengthy offseason and 2019 kickoff date (Aug. 24) that feels decades away. Eight months of grasping at any content we can get after the four months of pure bliss that we took for granted.

The end of a college football season never stings less. Every year, the final snap in the final game carries the same weight when the significance of it hits you. Whether that final snap comes long after the game was decided, like it did on Monday night, or as a sudden game winner like in 2017, it hurts just the same. There’s no such thing as a painless end to a college football season, because as fans, we’re obsessed.

We’re addicted.

The bowl season tries, and fails, to ease us into the long offseason, with the national championship serving as one final expression of college football at its highest level to satiate our desire for the bloodsport. It’s never enough. The end of the season stings every time, and will sting every time, until college football ends for good or the earth floods.

The good news —the only good news— about a college football season ending is that it’s never the end, it’s just an end. No matter how much it feels in mid-April like college football will be gone forever, it always comes back, bigger than the year before. The preview magazines always drop in the hottest weeks of the summer, the media days always provide us inane content to consume, and whatever dreadful Week 0 matchup draws our collective eyes, desperate for any and all forms of college football, no matter how bad, how insignificant, or how unwatchable that first game is.

The cycle won’t break, because we don’t want it to break. We love this. We love the routine of it, spending the whole offseason reminiscing and convincing ourselves that the redshirt sophomore cornerback, the true freshman receiver, the fifth year senior quarterback, or the coach without a single double-digit win season on his résumé is finally going to breakthrough this year. Every season is “our season” in July, because there’s nothing that says it can’t be.

When you’ve been without college football for seven months, anything is possible in the upcoming season, because you’ve completely forgotten the forces that control college football, the laws of the sport that keep the top teams at the top, and the bottom teams at the bottom. Talent level, depth, and coaching ability are all completely hypothetical in July, so there are no rules. You can think Kansas is going to win the championship in July, because there’s nothing in July to stop you from thinking that. There are no games to prove you wrong. You’re free to imagine a world where the top five teams don’t have more talent sitting on their bench than the bottom 125 have on their whole roster.

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“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given […].” (1.32-34) - The Odyssey

College football is dead, for nine months, and there’s nothing we can do about that. We can fill the void with recruiting, coaching hires, previews, arguments, podcasts, and any other content we can get our hands on, but the actual sport, the actual games, the actual living, breathing beast, is dead, and it’s going to stay dead until August 24th, no matter what we do.

We can partake in the past, watch old games on Youtube and relive the glory of games we’ve seen a million times already, but that’s nothing more than another form of grieving. College football is only truly enjoyed live, and from January 8th to August 24th, no number of previews, arguments, or Weekend at Bernie’s escapades can bring it back to us. We didn’t kill college football, but we knew it would die, just as we do every year, and we let it happen, as we do every year.

Maybe that’s why the end of each season, and the entrance into a fresh offseason each January stings so much every time, no matter what. Maybe the constant knowledge that no matter how many times we stay up to watch Cal score exactly six points at two in the morning, no matter how many Georgia Southern radio broadcasts we listen to at the gym on a Tuesday night, no matter how much we scrutinize and debate every aspect of each game our respective favorite team plays, the calendar is going to keep rolling on. The games are going to dwindle to just a few a day, to just one a day, to one last hurrah, and then college football will be laid to rest once again, and we’ll have no way to save it.

That’s why we grieve. That’s why we run through every ceremony, every last resort, trying to find a way to bring college football back sooner than the date it promised to return, partially because we don’t want to wait, and partially because we don’t fully trust that this won’t be the year college football lies, and refuses to return on that magical set date.

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”Dear friends, surely we are not unlearned in evils. This is no greater evil now than it was when the Cyclops had us cooped in his hollow cave by force and violence, but even there, by my courage and counsel and my intelligence, we escaped away. I think that all this will be remembered some day too. Then do as I say, let us all be won over.”’ (12.208-213) - The Odyssey

The 2018 season was worse than most college football seasons in recent memory. It’s hard to say that objectively, because you can’t really put the quality of a college football season into objective terms. However, 2018 just felt worse than 2017, 2016, 2015, or whatever season you want to name from the last decade or so, and college football is all about feelings, so we’re going to spend the offseason slightly bitter, feeling like a college football season, one of our most valuable resources, was wasted.

While the 2018 season was at least subjectively worse than the average college football season, it wasn’t without its glorious moments, because no matter how chalky the season is, college football is college football, and it’s going to produce some incredible moments. Because it’s a sport designed around harnessing spectacle and creating moments, one of our (the collective “our”) favorite offseason rituals is a football variation of a normal stage of loss: we reflect, and we remember.

Honestly, looking back at our favorite moments from each season may be better than the season itself, because the reactionary nature of fandom responding live to a result is erased with time. It’s hard to truly appreciate how special it was when Purdue dumped Ohio State into a garbage can in front of superfan Tyler Trent when you’re an Ohio State fan, watching your season crumble. It’s easy to become a prisoner of the moment, and in that moment, it was really easy to forget what really matters.

The offseason gives us a chance to recenter what really matters.

For the sake of this article, and for the sake of my mental health following the end of yet another college football season, I participated in some reminiscing on the hellsite social media of my choice, and asked my goblin followers to tell me about the college football moment that was most special to them in 2018.

There were a lot of moments still driven largely by fandom for a specific team, be it Darius Anderson gashing Greg Schiano’s skeleton army, Alan Bowman taking a safety, Chris Olave knocking a punt out of the sky, Shea Patterson launching a fastball into Jordan Fuller’s chest, Penn State nearly beating, and subsequently not beating Ohio State, or Chase Young dragging Shea Patterson down to hell.

A favorite team winning, losing, or making a huge play wasn’t the only category, however. There were some sentimental answers, like getting to see Ohio State beat the hell out of Michigan with your dad, or... getting to see Ohio State beat the hell out of Michigan with your dad and running onto the field after it. There was a lot of Tyler Trent, and Purdue knocking off Ohio State in front of a young man that deserved to see his team get one of the biggest wins in school history.

Some of the best moments of the year weren’t football related at all, but rather the expulsion of a dreadful force from a football team’s staff, be it Bill Davis, Mike Debord, or Mick McCall (who remains at large). No one ever claimed that college football fans aren’t petty, and while cheering about someone losing their job feels a little strange, it’s easier when you remember what Bill Davis did to Ohio State’s linebackers.

The last category, the largest category, and the category that my favorite moment falls in, is based in spectacle. College football is a sport based entirely around spectacle after all, so it’s not surprising that the moments we remember the most come from the gladiators’ greatest feats, the largest games on the biggest stages, the matchups handpicked to give us goosebumps as Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit immerse us in the best college football has to offer.

It was simply spectacle when Ed Orgeron was doused in Gatorade before coaching an additional seven periods of play, it was spectacle when College Gameday finally made the trek to Pullman to see Washington State bludgeon Oregon, or when a few weeks later that same Washington State fell to Washington because mother nature decided they would.

Even on the biggest stage, in the most important game of the season, Alabama ramming their kicker into Christian Wilkins provided us the serene reprieve from real life that only college football can.

My favorite moments, fittingly, came from two games involving four teams I have no earthly connection to. Enter Sandman before Notre Dame-Virginia Tech, and Taj McGowan bursting through the line on 4th and short on his way to a 71-yard touchdown for UCF in their comeback win over Memphis. I’m not a fan of any of those teams, and neither game impacted my team at all, but both felt so significant in the moment. It felt like the only thing in the world, and I watched it happen live.

That’s why we care so much about moments, and why we’re so able to boil an entire college football season down to just a few of them. We can aggregate college football when college football is no more, because that’s what it wants us to do. That’s what it’s built for. We can remember the moments, the micro, the seemingly insignificant, because that’s how we move past the death of a season and look forward to it emerging from the fire of yet another offseason.

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“Eurymachos, there is no more hope of my father’s homecoming. I believe no messages any more, even should there be one, nor pay attention to any prophecy, those times my mother calls some diviner into the house and asks him questions.” (1.413-416) - The Odyssey

It’s the most important offseason in school history for your favorite college football team. Yes, yours. It’s the most important offseason in school history for your favorite college football team because your favorite college football team’s coach needs to motivate himself and his 120 extremely young, extremely athletic, extremely tired football players to get out of bed every day.

The quotes about how that redshirt sophomore cornerback is really coming along, or how the fifth-year senior quarterback with more career interceptions than touchdowns has NFL talent that he’s just suddenly discovered aren’t for you. The psychology bullshit every coach does every offseason isn’t for you. It’s for them. It’s for the players. You’re just an observer.

The truth is, the 2019 season, and every season that follows it, is going to feel a lot like every season that preceded it. Sure, the specifics will change, be it new breakthrough teams, a new superstar, or, hopefully, more entertaining football, but the fundamentals of a college football season don’t change.

We’ll start the year by watching whatever junk the NCAA and ESPN throw at us, consuming as much football as humanly possible through weeks zero, one and two while completely throwing moderation to the wind. We’ll delight in a primetime showing of Alabama and some mid-level P5 team they’re going to murder, convincing ourselves that this year is the one where Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia, and a few select others don’t spend the year dominating nearly everyone they play with pure talent.

We’ll post, incessantly, about how angry we are that this awesome top 25 matchup between two teams that are going to finish the year 7-5 is being played in an NFL stadium built by some extremely old man with more money than any of the people playing in the game will see in their entire lives. We’ll use the first three weeks as an ironclad predictor of the rest of the season, determining the worth of each team based on what they do against a MAC school led by a coach you thought died 20 years ago.

After the initial rush of our beloved bloodsport returning to us fades, we’ll recede to the comfort zone. Favorite team, major ranked matchups, primetime games, the occasional G5 battle, and, if we’re feeling spicy, an awful mid-week game between two Sun Belt teams run by coaches that look more like disgraced congressmen than football professionals.

We’ll spend the rest of the season on that abbreviated schedule, enjoying the delights of college football while dealing with the vague reminder that in January it’ll die all over again. We’ll watch, as the same teams, as always, find their way back to the same throne they’ve owned for decades, with January’s Sword of Damocles instilling a fear of the inevitable, because the inevitable comes every year.

We’ll slog through bowls sponsored by various weapon of mass destruction retailers and Chicago towns. The season will wind down, once again, and we’ll reflect on it, determining if the primetime games, the G5 battles, the rivalry showdowns, and the midweek MAC trash was better or worse than usual. We’ll declare Alabama’s dynasty either unstoppable or over, we’ll judge the validity of each conference’s existence on how they do in glorified exhibitions, and then the sword will drop, and college football will die again.

There’s no point in breaking the cycle, because we like the cycle. The offseason, as much as we hate it, has to exist to make the actual football feel special. We have to do the strange offseason traditions and rituals because that’s just what we do, and because if we don’t, something terrible might happen, because we’ve never not done them before. Who knows, maybe the useless media days are what keeps the sport going each year. Maybe if coaches stopped complimenting their large adult quarterbacks after a televised practice in late April, the sport would just cease to exist.

College football is dead, and no matter what we do, it’ll remain dead until August 24th. We know, deep down, that none of the nonsense we do in the offseason to pass the time actually matters, or produces anything valuable. That isn’t why we do it though. We don’t grieve or reminisce, or prognosticate because it’ll make college football find new life before it’s ready to do so.

We do it because we like it, and in 2019, that isn’t changing.

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Ohio State is at a crossroads, and may need a philosophical change to save their season
Patrick Mayhorn via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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With the season hanging the balance, Ohio State has to adapt their approach.

For the first time in the Chris Holtmann era at Ohio State, the Buckeyes are under-performing, failing to adjust their strategy, and on a losing streak longer than two games. After dropping a top 25 battle to Michigan State last Saturday, and back to back road games to Rutgers and Iowa, the Buckeyes are feeling the January cold, and look completely lost with a number of massive games ahead of them.

The shooting has gone ice cold since the turn of the the calendar into 2019, with the Buckeyes shooting 43 percent (28 percent from three) against Michigan State, 39 percent against Rutgers (30 percent from three) and now 37 percent (40 percent from three) against Iowa. A lot of that comes from the fact that Ohio State’s primary guards (CJ Jackson, Duane Washington, Keyshawn Woods and Luther Muhammad) have all struggled greatly from the outside for the better part of the season to this point.

With no real outside threat, opponents are going almost exclusively with a 2-3 zone against the Buckeyes, and unless Kaleb Wesson is able to contribute 25 points a game (he isn’t), the Buckeyes have no real scoring answer for it. None of the guards have the quickness to get to the hoop against the zone, and outside of those four and the Wesson brothers, no one on the team is anywhere near being a consistent scoring threat.

That brings us to the second issue dogging the Buckeyes: their closest player resembling a star, Kaleb Wesson, can’t stay on the floor. In back to back games, Wesson has picked up two fouls within the first three minutes of play, keeping him sidelined for most of the first half. He fouled out against Michigan State (though he finished with 25 points), finished with four fouls and played just 26 minutes against Rutgers, and scored just once in 23 minutes against Iowa. He’s unable to play aggressively without fouling, and with him either hampered by fouls or off the floor entirely, Ohio State has little to no competence against the zone.

That brings me to the third, and most pressing problem: Ohio State can’t pass the ball because they have a core misunderstanding of how to deal with a zone. After not turning over the ball once in the first half against Michigan State, the Buckeyes have lost the ball 38 times in the last five halves, including a season high 21 times against Iowa.

Be it errant passes, like Andre Wesson’s late game blunder against Rutgers, ill-advised tosses directly into a zone, or over-dribbling, Ohio State is playing as loose with the ball as they ever have under Holtmann. They may be able to withstand that if more than one player on the team had any semblance of offensive consistency, but there’s no such luck. This is the hand Chris Holtmann was dealt, and while the elite talent isn’t there, we’ve seen him work magic before to know this isn’t the best product Ohio State could be putting out on the floor this year.

So how does Chris Holtmann adjust to the zone, clean up his young team’s mistakes, and get Ohio State headed back in the right direction before the season is lost? Well, a good first step may be to lean into Ohio State’s lack of size. We’ve seen variations of a small ball lineup work for the Buckeyes at several points this season, and some combination of three guards, one wing, and either Kaleb Wesson or Kyle Young may help speed up the excessively slow Buckeye offense.

Just changing the lineup, as we’ve seen, isn’t going to fix problems though. On top of a dedicated small ball group, Ohio State needs to consider adding press defense to their repertoire. With four quick, capable defender options at guard, and solid athletes in Musa Jallow, Andre Wesson and Jaedon LeDee, Ohio State has the speed and depth to force opponents to beat a press for most, if not all of a game.

The Buckeyes are struggling to defend without fouling and struggling to score. If they stop focusing so much on half-court offense and defense and just look to create turnovers and run in transition, they can both neutralize the zone defense and keep their own bigs from constant post defense. It’s a radical change from Chris Holtmann’s usual system, but his usual system isn’t working for this group of players right now, especially when the rest of the Big Ten is hyper-aware of Ohio State’s shooting deficiencies.

The shooting isn’t going to get fixed, at least not enough to turn the season around. Kaleb Wesson isn’t suddenly going to learn how to defend without fouling. The young Buckeyes aren’t going to suddenly realize that you can’t throw long passes against a zone. If the Buckeyes can’t win the situations they’re being put in by opposing teams and by their own limitations, they need to change the game. They need to flip the board and create chaos rather than trying to turn an undisciplined team without an elite scoring threat into the veteran Buckeyes led by Keita Bates-Diop that we saw in 2018.

This is a rebuilding year, sure. We knew that coming in, and the early season success may have skewed the fact that this is still a mostly young, mostly not-quite-ready roster full of guys that are going to be good at some point. But that doesn’t mean the Buckeyes have to lay down and die at the hand of a 2-3 zone. Ohio State has some talent, it has plenty of athleticism and it has energy. Chris Holtmann needs to play into those strengths before the season spirals out of control.

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Ohio State drops third straight, loses to Iowa 72-62
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For the first time under Chris Holtmann, the Buckeyes have lost three games in a row.

For the first time in the Chris Holtmann era, Ohio State (12-4, 2-3) has lost three games in a row, falling 72-62 to Iowa (14-3, 3-3). After dropping their last two contests to Michigan State and Rutgers, the Buckeyes continued to struggle and were unable to stop the skid in Iowa City, a place that has not been kind to OSU athletics in recent years.

Turnovers and foul trouble were the biggest issue for Ohio State this time around, as they turned the ball over a whopping 21 times and had 23 fouls as a team. The shooting was particularly poor as well, as they shot just 37 percent in a game where nothing seemed to go right for the guys in Scarlet.

The Buckeyes leading scorer this season Kaleb Wesson, averaging around 17 points per game, scored just two points in the contest as a result of early foul trouble. Ohio State was led on the scoreboard instead by his brother Andre Wesson, who put up 13 points.

Iowa was led by Luka Garza, who scored 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting. As a team, the Hawkeyes shot 45 percent from the floor and scored 18 of their points at the free throw line. As with almost all of Ohio State’s losses this season, they utilized an effective zone defense to neutralize the Buckeyes on the offensive end.

OSU is now just 2-3 in the Big Ten and has looked particularly bad during this three-game skid. The team has not found ways to score without Kaleb Wesson on the floor and their guard play has not been good. They will have a few extra days to try to figure things out before they return home to take on Maryland on Friday night.


Ohio State won the opening tip to get things underway in Iowa City. Keyshawn Woods got a contested basket to go on the interior as the Buckeyes were on the board first. After the two teams traded empty possessions, it was Luka Garza getting a layup to go for Iowa as the two teams were locked at two apiece three minutes into the game.

Kaleb Wesson again found himself with two quick fouls as he was forced to go to the bench. The Hawkeyes immediately took advantage, drawing a foul inside and getting a point at the line from Tyler Cook. Luther Muhammad drilled a three-pointer, but Joe Wieskamp got a put-back layup at the other end to tie the game up at five. Jordan Bohannon knocked down a three in transition as Iowa took an 8-5 lead.

Jaedon LeDee got on the board with a short jumper to cut the Hawkeye lead to one, but Iowa got it back up to four on an and-one play from Cook. Kyle Young made a nice jump stop move inside for an easy two as both teams started to get sloppy with the ball. At the 12:45 mark, the two teams already combined for 10 turnovers. Musa Jallow would be able to knock down a three, and OSU led 12-11 with 12:22 to go in the period.

Ryan Kriener got the Hawkeyes back on top with a putback layup before another three-ball from Jallow had Ohio State up two. LeDee extended the Buckeye lead to 17-13 with an and-one play off of an offensive rebound heading into the second media timeout.

Kriener got another basket to go inside on a jump hook, and after the two teams traded empty possessions it was Kriener again with a step-back three to give the Hawkeyes back the lead. After two missed free throws from Cook, Kaleb Wesson got involved in the scoring with a layup as Ohio State took a one-point lead with 6:11 remaining until halftime.

Muhammad knocked down a nice mid-range jumper, but Wieskamp got an easy transition bucket after yet another Buckeye turnover. After a bunch of empty possessions on both sides, we headed into the final media timeout of the first period with Ohio State holding a 21-20 lead.

Iowa regained the lead on a baseline jumper from Nicholas Baer, but Muhammad got it right back with a pair of free throws. The Hawkeyes answered with a layup from Cook, but OSU got a three-ball from Justin Ahrens to take a 26-24 lead. Neither team would score on the last few possessions of the period as Ohio State took their two-point lead into halftime.

The first period was not pretty for either team, as both shot under 40 percent from the field. The Buckeyes turned the ball over 11 times, but this was negated by Iowa’s nine turnovers. Muhammad and Kriener tied at seven points apiece to lead all scorers. The first 20 minutes saw 12 lead changes as neither team could really get anything going. Kaleb Wesson played just eight minutes in the half as a result of foul trouble.

Ohio State got on the board first in the second half as Young worked inside for the layup, but Cook answered with a contested layup on the other end on the ensuing possession. After an Isaiah Moss jumper, the two teams traded buckets back and forth as things were tied at 30 apiece with 17:23 to go.

Iowa regained the lead on a second-chance basket from Garza, and after a missed three from Muhammad, Garza would get a three to fall to put the Hawkeyes up five as all the momentum was on their side. Cook threw down a dunk as Iowa went up 37-30, their largest lead of the game.

Ohio State was able to quiet the crowd a bit with a C.J. Jackson three-ball, but after a free throw and a finger-roll finish from Baer, the Iowa lead was back up to seven. Jackson knocked down another three, but Wieskamp answered at the other end with a layup. After a putback basket from Jallow, the Buckeyes found themselves trailing 42-38 with a little over 12 minutes remaining.

Kriener scored inside again and the Buckeyes picked up their sixth team foul of the period with 11:38 to go as Holtmann’s squad continued to flounder. Iowa extended the lead to eight with an alley-oop jam from Kriener as the Hawkeyes looked like they were taking control of the game. After two free throws from Wieskamp, Iowa found themselves up 51-41 with 8:23 remaining.

The Hawkeyes continued to add to their lead, as they worked their way into the double bonus with over seven minutes to go in the contest. The free throws continued to add up, and Iowa led 56-45 with 6:56 left on the clock.

It was a 61-45 lead for the home team as the crowd was worked into a frenzy. Ohio State could not get anything to fall as the Hawkeyes were in full command of the game. The Buckeyes were straight up outplayed down the stretch.

After the two teams played out what seemed like an eternity of a final five minutes for Ohio State, Iowa came away with what wound up being an easy 72-62 win.

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Hetuck said:

To win a championship a QB has to do more than run the wildcat. My opinion of Martell hasn't changed. If he has a future in football it's not at QB. He'll eventually switch positions.

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Ohio State men’s basketball vs. Iowa: Game preview, prediction
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After being upset by Rutgers on Wednesday night, Ohio State will try and register their first win in 2019 when they take on Iowa.

2019 has gotten off to a rough start for Ohio State’s men’s basketball team. The Buckeyes will look to snap a two-game losing streak and register their first win of the new year when they travel to Carver Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City to take on the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Preview


On Wednesday night Ohio State hit the road for the first time in 2019, but the Buckeyes put forth their worst performance of the the season, losing 64-61 to Rutgers. The Buckeyes rallied from multiple double-digit deficits to take the lead early and late in the second half, but couldn’t secure the victory.

After layups by Luther Muhammad and C.J. Jackson, Ohio State held a 61-58 lead over Rutgers with 2:37 left to play, but those would be the final points the Buckeyes would score on the night, as the Scarlet Knights scored the final six points of the game to secure the upset. The win was Rutgers’ first over a ranked Big Ten team since January 2015, when the Scarlet Knights defeated a Wisconsin team who was ranked fourth in the country at the time.

The bright spot in the loss for Ohio State was Kaleb Wesson, who continued his sensational sophomore season with 18 points and seven rebounds on Wednesday night. Wesson struggled with some foul trouble in the first half, but came out firing after the halftime break, scoring Ohio State’s first 10 points of the second half. Wesson now has scored at least 13 points in 12 straight games.

The other Buckeye who came to play on Wednesday night was Luther Muhammad, who was playing his first game back in his home state. Muhammad not only registered 13 points against the Scarlet Knights, but he also pulled down a season-high six rebounds. The freshman guard has upped his play lately, scoring at least 11 points in four of the last five games.

If Ohio State is going to end their two-game slide this afternoon, they’ll need a better performance from Andre Wesson. The junior forward played 36 minutes on Wednesday night, but contributed very little on the offensive end, scoring just four points. The elder Wesson also committed a season-high four turnovers in the loss. While huge offensive numbers aren’t expected from Wesson, the Buckeyes need to at least get a little more out of him than they did against Rutgers if they want to be a factor in the Big Ten.

The loss to Rutgers was extremely disappointing for the Buckeyes, but Chris Holtmann’s squad can’t dwell on the upset for too long, as they’ll be squaring off against a tough Iowa team on the road. Holtmann is hoping his team can replicate their success from last season against Iowa. The Buckeyes won both meetings with the Hawkeyes, defeating Iowa 92-81 at Carver Hawkeye Arena in early January before completing the sweep 82-64 a month later in Columbus.

After two subpar seasons, Iowa and head coach Fran McCaffery look primed to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2016. The Hawkeyes went undefeated in non-conference play, registering wins over Oregon, UConn, and Iowa State. A strong Big Ten campaign will add to Iowa’s case for an NCAA Tournament bid, but if the Hawkeyes falter down the stretch, it could spell the end of McCaffery in Iowa City. McCaffery is in his ninth season coaching the Hawkeyes, and has a 164-123 record with three NCAA Tournament appearances.

The Hawkeyes enter today’s game fresh off a 73-63 victory over Northwestern on Wednesday night in Evanston. After starting off conference play with losses to Michigan State, Wisconsin, and Purdue, Iowa has now won their last two Big Ten games. Freshman Joe Wieskamp was the leading scorer for the Hawkeyes on Wednesday night with 19 points, while Luka Garza added 16 points off the bench.

The win over Northwestern was especially impressive considering the Hawkeyes were without leading scorer Tyler Cook, who sat out Wednesday night’s game with a knee injury. Prior to missing the game against Northwestern, Cook has scored at least 15 points and grabbed at least five rebounds in nine consecutive game, making him the first Iowa player to accomplish that feat in 25 years. Cook’s status for today’s game against Ohio State is still up in the air, as head coach Fran McCaffery said Cook is day-to-day with the injury.

Despite being just a freshman, guard Joe Wieskamp has already started to make a name for himself with the play he has exhibited so far for the Hawkeyes. Not only is Wieskamp averaging 11.1 points per game in his first year at Iowa, but he is shooting nearly 44 percent from behind the arc. Wieskamp has hit at least two three-pointers in four of the last five games for Iowa, with his season-high coming against Savannah State when he buried five three-pointers.

A Hawkeye who is nearing a milestone is guard Jordan Bohannon, who has 995 career points. Bohannon is averaging 11.1 points per game, and has scored at least five points in all but two games this season, so it’s very likely Bohannon will cross the 1,000-point mark for his career. When Bohannon reaches that milestone, he’ll join his two brothers in the 1,000-point club. Jason Bohannon scored 1,170 points while at Wisconsin, and Matt Bohannon registered 1,092 points during his career at Northern Iowa.

Iowa does a great job at making their way to the foul line. The Hawkeyes have made 352 free throws this season, which is 81 more than any other Big Ten team. Michigan State is the only opponent Iowa has failed to make more free throws than in a game this year, as the Spartans made five more free throws than the Hawkeyes in their 90-68 victory over Iowa. Ohio State has struggled with foul trouble at times this year, and has seen their opponents make more free throws in each of the last three games.

Prediction


ESPN BPI: Iowa 57.7%

With the status of Tyler Cook still up in the air, trying to predict what is going to happen between the Buckeyes and Hawkeyes is even tougher than normal. These two teams frequently play close games, with 24 of their last 36 meetings being decided by 10 points or less, and 13 of those games being decided by five points or less. The Hawkeyes have been reliable in close games this year, posting a 5-1 record in games decided by 10 points or less, while Ohio State’s last two losses have been by nine points or less.

A win on the road over an Iowa team that could be possibly be headed to the NCAA Tournament would be a great confidence builder for a young Ohio State team, but they can’t play anything like they did on Wednesday night against Rutgers. If the Buckeyes can’t snap out of their recent funk, Iowa could put this game away early, with or without Tyler Cook.

The key for Ohio State against the Hawkeyes is going to be keeping Kaleb Wesson out of foul trouble. Too often this year Wesson has picked up a couple of quick fouls at times during the game and been relegated to the bench for an extended period. When Wesson is on the floor he attracts more attention down low and opens up the perimeter for shooters like C.J. Jackson, Luther Muhammad, and Duane Washington Jr. Without Wesson on the floor, Ohio State doesn’t have quite as much of an interior threat, allowing for opponents to extend their defense.

It would be great if Ohio State could snap their losing streak before it possibly gets out of hand with matchups against Maryland, Purdue, and Nebraska on the horizon, but it’s hard to see that happening, especially after their effort against Rutgers on Wednesday night. We’ll see a better performance out of the Buckeyes today, but Iowa pulls out a late victory.

LGHL Final Score Prediction: Iowa 72-68

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I don't remember Richmond, but I seem to remember us being in the mix for Wolf during his recruitment.

Edit-- that was Ethan, not Eli.

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Richmond was considered an OSU lean at one point.

Ryan Day has a contemporary up in Cleveland
Patrick Mayhorn via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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Two young, offensive minded coaches are running the only football teams that matter in Ohio.

“Now they’re the two most powerful coaches in Ohio football, with the fates of two winning teams (one proven, one all potential) in their hands. If you squint hard enough and get past Kitchens’ prominent Alabama drawl and Day’s fading New England dialect, you can see the same guy, two all-state high school quarterbacks who started for their homestate universities before launching coaching careers that peaked right here in the last two months.”

- Doug Lesmerises, Cleveland dot com


There are exactly two big time football programs in the state of Ohio (Cincinnati is in Kentucky), and they’re led by a 39-year-old Ryan Day and a 44-year-old Freddie Kitchens, both first time head coaches and long time offensive masterminds. Given the history and prestige that comes with being a head coach at Ohio State, and the general age based gatekeeping in the NFL, I’d put money on this being the first time that the Buckeyes and Browns have relatively young and innovative coaches at the same time.

With the youth revolution storming the state, I can only imagine Freddie and Ryan will usher in a new era of football success never before seen in Ohio, because they aren’t weighed down by the classic old coach tropes like “playing the oldest players instead of the best” or “hiring an entire staff of people you just wanted to hang out with more”. I, for one, am ready for our young coaching overlords, and pledge my allegiance to Ohio’s new co-kings.

Holtmann talks Iowa


It’s been a tough week for Ohio State basketball. After starting the season 12-1, the Buckeyes have dropped two straight, to Michigan State on Saturday and Rutgers on Wednesday, which means tomorrow’s matchup with Iowa is a crucial one. That doesn’t seem to be lost on the team, as Andre Wesson, Duane Washington, and head coach Chris Holtmann addressed the press on Friday afternoon.

Holtmann takes the stage around the 13-minute mark, and jumps straight into talking up the Hawkeyes, compliments their system, their group of veteran players, and the young talent on the roster. He mentions specifically that Iowa has lots of length on defense and could play some zone on Saturday, which Ohio State has struggled greatly with this season.

He also names Connor McCaffery, Joe Wieskamp, and the overall depth of Iowa as their greatest strength, especially with star Tyler Cook’s injury status still up in the air. You can check out the full presser in the link above, and watch the Buckeyes take the floor on Saturday at 2:37 p.m. ET on BTN.

“The No. 7 Ohio State men’s volleyball team (2-1) fell to No. 5 BYU (1-0) on the road in a three-set sweep on Thursday, 25-20, 25-23 and 27-25.”

- Caleb Ewing, The Lantern


The Ohio State men’s volleyball team is one of the best shows on campus, but they got off to a bit of a rough start on their 2019 season, losing to BYU on the road in their first ranked matchup of the year. After easily dropping Penn State and Charleston to start the year, Ohio State had no answer for the Cougars, keeping each set close but not finding a way to win one on the way to a tough first loss.

All isn’t lost for the Buckeye though, obviously. They continue their west coast tour against 11th ranked Stanford on Saturday, before coming back home to play George Mason and Erskine next Friday and Saturday. Then, it’s back on the road to end the month, as the Buckeyes head to the worst place on earth, Muncie, Indiana, to face off with the 14th ranked Ball State Cardinals.

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Ohio State cornerback Damon Arnette will return for senior year
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One of the remaining roster dominos has fallen for the Buckeyes.

With every passing day, the futures of Ohio State players and coaches have continued to come into sharper focus, as some announce that they will return to Columbus in 2019, while others depart for opportunities elsewhere.

Today, fourth-year junior Damon Arnette made his decision known, and the cornerback will return to the Buckeye secondary for one final season.


The Fort Lauderdale, Florida, native came to Columbus from the football factory of St. Thomas Aquinas high school that also produced Nick and Joey Bosa, but his on-field career hasn’t yet taken off like his fellow former Raiders’ has.

Despite that, Arnette spent two years as a starter in the Ohio State secondary, and after redshirting as a true freshman, Arnette wracked up 105 tackles, including three for loss (all as a sophomore in 2017), in three years for the Buckeyes. He also has four career interceptions and 14 passes defended.

With Arnette’s somewhat surprising return, he will be a veteran presence for young corners Jeffrey Okudah and Shaun Wade, both of whom showed tremendous potential as the 2018 season progressed.

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Former Ohio State linebackers coach Bill Davis returns to Arizona Cardinals
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Davis was the defensive coordinator for the Cardinals in 2009-10.

After two years in Columbus under Urban Meyer, linebackers coach Bill Davis has found a new home after leaving the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Actually, it’s a return to Phoenix.

Davis will become linebackers coach for the Arizona Cardinals, and was part of the new hires for newly named Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury.


In 2007, Davis made his first run with the Cards as linebackers coach, and was brought in by then-head coach Ken Whisenhunt. In 2009, he was promoted to defensive coordinator.

Davis would then move on to the LBs coach position with the Cleveland Browns, before taking over as DC for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2013-15. Ryan Day was also on that 2015 Eagles staff; the current Buckeye head coach was then a quarterbacks coach under Chip Kelly.

In two seasons at Ohio State, Davis helped win two Big Ten Championships, as well as wins in the Cotton Bowl and Rose Bowl.

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Ohio State recruiting: There’s never ending QB news with the Buckeyes
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The Buckeyes want four scholarship quarterbacks. Will they have that in 2019?

If it seems like the every single day that Ohio State is in the headlines, you’re not alone in thinking that. It’s now been just over a week since Ohio State won the Rose Bowl in Urban Meyer’s last game as the program’s head coach.

Since his first day on the job as head coach, Ryan Day has done nothing but go full speed, pedal to the metal with implementing his plan for the program. With yesterday’s latest drama in the quarterback saga, Day and his “new” staff may be on the hunt for one more signal-caller even though they just gained the best prospect they could probably ever dream of.

As said earlier though, for the Buckeyes, the news seemingly never stops.

They say three’s a crowd, but truthfully you need four


Yesterday, when the news broke out that Tate Martell was looking to transfer, it probably caught many by surprise after hearing his thoughts on the matter when asked directly before the Rose Bowl victory. That matter? The Justin Fields to Ohio State move and whether it would come to fruition or not. A snapshot of Tate’s comments basically hinted toward the notion that he wasn’t scared of competition and that he had done all that was asked of him and felt he would be up for the task if he were to have to battle Fields for the starting job in 2019.

Fast forward a week though. Justin Fields is now officially a Buckeye and it looks as if Tate’s words were just that, words. Realizing it hasn’t been cemented in stone that Martell is leaving, it’s pretty clear that when there’s smoke, there’s fire—and right now it’s pretty hazy in Columbus when considering Martell’s future with the Buckeyes. Now, not getting into his decision and giving an opinion on the situation, the more interesting thing of note is where the Buckeyes stand if he does decide to go. On one hand, it’s almost like they’re in the same boat they were before Fields transferred to Ohio State. Three scholarship quarterbacks and a need for some depth. It’s as if Tate sees the writing on the walls though for Fields being granted the waiver for immediate eligibility, but Ryan Day has said before that he wants four quarterbacks on the roster because that’s what it takes. If Tate goes, Day doesn’t have that. The question now is where would he look?

Ohio State may need to once again take a look in the 2019 class for nothing more than depth insurance. That along with the potential JUCO or even grad-transfer options, there’s simply that. Options. Which one however will only be seen with time. Guys such as Louisiana's Lance LeGendre, the highest rated uncommitted QB, are still available, but this late in the game it’s hard to build that strong of a relationship to bring a prospect into the fold. Knowing Florida State is the real threat and clear front-runner for his services doesn’t make it any easier. David Baldwin, an IMG signal-caller is the second highest rated uncommitted QB in the class, but as it stands now he doesn’t even hold an Ohio State offer.

As you can see, the options are somewhat slim if Day wants to look solely in the 2019 class. If he were to go through the JUCO or grad-transfer ranks though, the depth would certainly be more experienced. Stay tuned, the outcome for Fields’ eligibility is coming near and that will certainly help shape where this staff goes when it comes to finding a fourth scholarship quarterback.

Buckeyes closing in on another 2019 addition?


Ohio State’s 2019 early signing day saw quality over quantity. A smaller class in overall numbers, the Buckeyes are pretty much squared away and know who they’ll have in the fold after February. However, there’s still a couple of open spots.

On the offensive side of the ball, the trenches are where the depth is needed most. With the early departure of Michael Jordan, Ohio State’s center/guard combo, the Buckeyes will have to replace four starters on their line. A tough task, the Buckeyes have recruited well enough to have a plan set in place for the next in line, literally, but adding depth is still a key to being successful due to unseen incidents such as injuries that are likely to occur over the course of a season.

Yesterday, the Buckeyes may have taken a step closer to adding offensive line depth when Director of Recruiting for 247sports, Steve Wiltfong, pegged a crystal ball prediction in favor of Ohio State for Indianapolis, Indiana, native Dawand Jones. Jones is a 6-foot-8, 360-pound monster-sized prospect that is raw in his technique, but if there’s one thing you can’t teach, it’s size and athleticism. Jones not only has the size to be a dominant force in the trenches, but he also has the skills and, more specifically, the footwork.

The crystal ball is not always 100-percent accurate, but when the Director of Recruiting makes a prediction, it’s one to pay attention to. The Buckeyes need numbers, and while they will try their very best to hold onto Doug Nester in their 2019 class, adding the size and potential of Dawand Jones is certainly something they’d like to do.

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Josh Myers is ready to be the next great Ohio State center
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With the last three Buckeye centers earning All-American options, Myers has some big shoes to fill if he is tabbed to replace Michael Jordan.

“Confident. I’ve put a tremendous amount of work into it and a tremendous amount of time and I feel like I’m as ready as I can be right now to go.”

Ohio State offensive lineman Josh Myers on playing center via Tony Gerdeman, The Ozone


With center Michael Jordan declaring for the NFL Draft, Ohio State will be starting their fourth different center in the last four years at the start of the 2019 season. Josh Myers is expected to be the offensive lineman tabbed to take over for Jordan, and he has some big shoes to fill. Not only has the last three starters at center for Ohio State been named All-Americans, but Pat Elflein and Billy Price won the Rimington Award as the best center in college football in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

Even though Myers was Jordan’s backup in 2018, offensive line coach Greg Studrawa already has a tremendous amount of confidence in Myers’ ability to play the position. Had there been an injury on the interior of Ohio State’s offensive line, Studrawa was ready to plug Myers in at center and move Jordan to one of the guard positions. Even if Jordan had returned for his senior season, Myers was slated to be the starting center and Jordan would be moved back to guard.

Myers is already confident in his ability to play the center position, especially after his work at the position in spring practice, where things started to click. With Myers entering 2019 as just a redshirt sophomore, he could give the Buckeyes something they haven’t had lately, which is the same starter at center for more than a year.

“For a lot of reasons I’m ready. It’s something I’ve been working for my whole career. I’ve been exposed to some great coaches along the way and exposed to some high-level coaching and going to use something from each of those coaches that we’re going to be a culture that way and my philosophy.”

Ohio State head coach Ryan Day via Dave Biddle, Bucknuts


Just over two years ago, Ryan Day was named co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Ohio State. Now the 39-year-old is running the show for the Buckeyes as head coach. Many are wondering if Day is ready to run such a high-profile college football program, but he has already had a taste of what it’s like to be the head coach at Ohio State, posting a 3-0 record as interim head coach while Urban Meyer was suspended to start the 2018 season.

Now that Day is the Ohio State head coach, there is a thought by some that he won’t be able works with the quarterbacks as much, but Day says that won’t be the case. Day will still be involved with the quarterbacks and working to help them better themselves since the offense goes through them, which is good news for Justin Fields, Tate Martell, and the rest of the Ohio State quarterbacks. Ohio State head coaches working closely with the quarterbacks would follow the lead of recent head coaches Urban Meyer and Jim Tressel.

Despite being a young head coach, Day has plenty of experience to build on, as he coaching career started back in 2002 at New Hampshire as tight ends coach. Day has worked under some of the best minds in the game like Chip Kelly and Urban Meyer, and now it is his time to run the show. While Day won’t copy the styles of those he coached under before, he plans to take something from everyone and create his own style. If the three games he coached early in 2018 are any indication, Ohio State is in for a fun ride while Day is the head coach.

“It’s a great way to measure up our team versus the best team in the country. It’s going to show us where we are and how far we have to come. It’s a great challenge for the girls.”

Ohio State women’s ice hockey interim associate head coach Andrew Cassels via Griffin Strom, The Lantern


Ohio State’s women’s ice hockey team is currently ranked seventh in the nation, but they’ll get a good idea of where they stand this weekend when they host a pair of games against Wisconsin, the top ranked team in the country. The Badgers have not only lost just one game of the 20 they’ve played so far this season, but they are first in the country in scoring margin, and second in the country in goals scored.

Despite Wisconsin looking nearly unbeatable, Ohio State can go into this weekend’s pair of games with a bit of confidence, as they took two games from the Badgers last year. While things aren’t exactly the same since their last meetings, Ohio State does have goalie Andrea Braendli to try and slow down the Wisconsin attack. The freshman goaltender is eighth in the country with a .939 save percentage.

Ohio State is confident they can put some offensive pressure on the Badgers this weekend, which is something Wisconsin’s opponents haven’t been able to do much of this weekend. The Badgers have outscored opponents 81-23 this year, but if the Buckeyes can create some consistent pressure it could create some doubt in Wisconsin and allow for an upset by the Buckeyes. With six weekends of hockey left before the conference championships for the Buckeyes, a couple wins this weekends could close the gap in the conference standings.

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