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JAMISON BATTLE'S 3-POINT SHOOTING WILL PROVIDE NEW WRINKLE IN CHRIS HOLTMANN'S OFFENSE​

Chris Holtmann's teams, both at Ohio State and in his career, aren't used to having a player that shoots a bunch of 3-pointers.

It seems as though that will likely change next season.

The addition of Jamison Battle – the No. 25 overall player in the transfer portal – will provide immediate scoring, veteran leadership, depth and 3-point shooting to the 2022-23 Buckeyes on the hardwood. The latter might be the biggest area Battle could help Ohio State next season.
In four college seasons, including the last two at Minnesota, the 6-foot-7, 225-pound forward has averaged 7.1 3-point attempts per game. Throughout his four-year career, Battle has shot 35% from beyond the arc, including a career-best 36.6% in 2021-22 and a career-low 31.1% this past season. His seven 3-point attempts per game tied for the 70th-most in Division I in 2022-23.

Even in his worst season as a 3-point shooter this past season, Battle's 2.2 made 3-pointers per game would have been by far the best number for the Buckeyes. Ohio State was led by Brice Sensabaugh (1.8 3-pointers per game) and had just three players – Sensabaugh, Sean McNeil (1.7) and Bruce Thornton (1.2) – average more than one 3-pointer per game this past season.

JAMISON BATTLE'S CAREER 3-POINT SHOOTING
SEASON 3PA/G (3P%)
2019-20 7.6 (36.6%)
2020-21 6.4 (35.4%)
2021-22 7.1 (36.6%)
2022-23 7.0 (31.1%)
Career 7.1 (35%)
His ability to knock down 3-pointers at a reasonable clip is something for Buckeye fans to be excited about, but the number of long-distance shots that Battle takes sticks out. Ohio State fans haven't seen that much over the last 21 years, let alone in the Chris Holtmann era. Anything over 5.5 3-point attempts per game by a player has been a rarity over the last six years. Seven attempts are almost unheard of, not only during Holtmann's time leading the Buckeyes but in his career as a head coach.

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What Jamison Battle's transfer means for Ohio State​

The Ohio State men's basketball team addressed one of the team's biggest needs on Thursday when former Minnesota forward Jamison Battle announced his commitment to the Buckeyes from the transfer portal. Battle is a player who spent the last two seasons with the Gophers, after playing his first two years of college basketball at George Washington, and will bring that experience in the Big Ten to the Scarlet and Gray.

This experience is one of the reasons Battle was attractive to Ohio State. Over the last two years, he has played, and started, 56 games in the Big Ten, averaging 36.2 minutes per game for Minnesota. Unlike other recent incoming transfers for the Buckeyes, Battle won't have to adjust to moving conferences and the grind of the Big Ten. He's lived it.

Battle also brings overall college basketball experience to what is likely to be one of the younger teams in the country next season. While the Scarlet and Gray's freshman class got plenty of playing time this past year, at least seven of the Scarlet and Gray's 13 scholarship players next season will be in their first or second years.

Battle's addition gives Ohio State a fifth-year senior who has been around the block in this sport. He will join Zed Key and Tanner Holden as the three upperclassmen on the Buckeye roster and could quickly become a leader for this team, similar to Isaac Likekele last season.

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What is Ohio State men’s basketball getting in Jamison Battle?​

A big body on the perimeter​

Someone to stretch the floor, open up driving lanes​

Experience​

An able (but not great) defender​

A man of many talents​

Someone who can (and will) take over games​

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B1G Basketball Tournament(s)

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With Big Ten tournament going to Minneapolis, could Columbus or other cities host in future?​


The college basketball season comes to an end tonight as UConn faces San Diego State in the national championship game in Houston. (Check it out on CBS at 9 p.m. Eastern time.)

Once again, the city of Columbus was an important stop on the way to the NCAA Final Four. Columbus hosted first weekend match-ups in both the men’s and women’s tournaments with the men downtown at Nationwide Arena and the women at OSU’s Value City Arena.

The Big Ten tournament began with the 1997-98 season and has been predominantly held in Chicago and Indianapolis. The United Center in Chicago held it each of the first four years and has hosted it 11 times, including this season. Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis – under various names – has hosted it 12 times. Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis also hosted it in the Covid-impacted 2020-21 season.

With Maryland and Rutgers added to the Big Ten for the 2014-15 school year, the tournament was held in Washington, D.C., in 2017 and at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in 2018.

This past year, the Big Ten announced it would branch out to a new frontier as it contracted with the city of Minneapolis and the Target Center – home of the NBA’s Minneapolis Timberwolves – to host the women’s tournament this year and the men’s tournament in March 2024.

Accordingly, that announcement has given rise to speculation and maybe some hope that some of the Big Ten’s other “old line” major cities could also be considered to host these tournaments in future years. These potential host sites could include Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Columbus.

As it stands, the 2024 Big Ten men’s and women’s tournaments will both be held at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The conference will be calling for bids on those tournaments for future years.
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THE CASE FOR COLUMBUS​

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Fans packed Nationwide Arena for NCAA men's opening round action in March (Photo: 247Sports)

Nationwide Arena opened in downtown Columbus in 2000 as the home of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets. It has hosted first weekend NCAA men’s tournament games on six occasions, beginning in 2004 and continuing through the games earlier this month. Each of those tournaments brought eight college teams and their fanbases to Columbus.

Nationwide Arena also hosted the NCAA women’s basketball Final Four in April 2018. It is estimated that Final Four generated nearly $22 million in visitor spending in the city in 2018. Columbus has already been tapped to host the women’s Final Four again in 2027.

According to Columbus Business First, Columbus sold the most tickets of all of the NCAA men’s first weekend sites for the 2023 tournament. Nationwide Arena was sold out for the two Friday sessions and one on Sunday, with nearly 60,000 tickets sold — roughly 19,564 tickets per session.

"We're just excited and blessed that everyone in the city, as well as all the markets that are close by, came to Columbus to enjoy some great basketball," Nationwide Arena general manager Mike Gatto told Columbus Business First.

"I say it sometimes tongue-in-cheek, but I do mean it, the vision for Columbus Arena Sports and Entertainment — that's our group that oversees both Nationwide and the (Schottenstein Center), as well as Ohio Stadium — is for Columbus to be the sports and entertainment capital of the Midwest, and I really feel like we're on our way there."

Just sayin': Yeah, it would be great to see a future B1G Basketball Tournament in Columbus.
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