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Ohio State vs #19 Texas, Monday, Nov 4, 2024 @ 10 PM ET, in Las Vegas, TNT

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Ohio State Opens 126th Season Monday vs. No. 19 Texas​

Ohio State vs. #19 Texas
Date: November 4, 2024
Time: 10 p.m.
Venue: T-Mobile Arena – Las Vegas, Nev.
TV: TNT

Ohio State opens its 126th season of men’s basketball on Monday night as the Buckeyes will play No. 19 Texas in the Hall of Fame Series event in Las Vegas, Nev. Tip-off is set for 10 p.m. ET from T-Mobile Arena and the game will be televised on TNT. The all-star crew of Spero Dedes, Grant Hill, Candace Parker, and Taylor Rooks will call the action.
  • This is the earliest Ohio State has started a season in terms of date.
  • The matchup with No. 19 Texas marks just the third time that Ohio State has opened a season against a ranked team. The Buckeyes lost their previous two times, falling on the road at No. 12 Utah State on Dec. 1, 1970 and then lost to No. 15 Oklahoma on Nov. 25, 1988 in the opening round of the Maui Invitational.
  • Ohio State and Texas are meeting for just the second time on the hardwood. The Buckeyes won 71-65 on March 17, 1986 in the second round of the NIT in Columbus.
  • This is Ohio State’s fourth game in Las Vegas. The Buckeyes are 2-1 all-time with a win over Georgetown in 1990 in the Dual in the Desert and a win over Kentucky in the CBS Sports Classic in 2019. The lone loss also came in the CBS Sports Classic to UCLA in 2016.
  • Ohio State welcomes in nine newcomers to pair with seven returners and just two returning starters from last year’s team that finished 22-14 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NIT.
  • Head coach Jake Diebler begins his first full season as head coach. He was the interim coach and later named the head coach at the end of last season and led the team to an 8-3 record down the stretch.
  • Of the nine newcomers, five are transfers including Meechie Johnson Jr., who is returning to Ohio State to finish his career where it started. Aaron Bradshaw from Kentucky and Sean Stewart from Duke are both sophomores who were highly rated out of high school and have an opportunity to show their skills with the Buckeyes.
  • Micah Parrish (SDSU) and Ques Glover (Kansas State) are both in their fifth years and bring a wealth of experience and veteran leadership. Parrish played in the national championship in 2023 with San Diego State.
  • Freshman Colin White is the reigning Mr. Basketball in the state of Ohio while John Mobley Jr. was considered one of the top shooters in the 2024 class.
  • Texas is coming off a 21-13 season that saw the Longhorns reach the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Tre Johnson and Tramon Mark were both named to the preseason All-SEC Team.
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Ohio State to face No. 19 Texas in season opener in Las Vegas

Ohio State is set to kick off its 126th season of men's basketball with a challenging matchup against No. 19 Texas on Monday night.
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Ohio State to face No. 19 Texas in season opener in Las Vegas​

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Ohio State is set to kick off its 126th season of men's basketball with a challenging matchup against No. 19 Texas on Monday night. The game, part of the Hall of Fame Series event, will take place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a 10 p.m. ET tip-off. Fans can catch the action on TNT.
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Ohio State's roster this season features nine newcomers alongside seven returners, including just two returning starters from last year's team, which finished 22-14 and reached the NIT quarterfinals. Head coach Jake Diebler, who was named head coach after serving as interim last season, will lead the team.

Returning players Bruce Thornton, Devin Royal and Evan Mahaffey are looking to step into bigger roles this season. Thornton is the only double-digit scorer returning from the 2023-24 campaign.

Among the new faces are five transfers, including Meechie Johnson Jr., who returns to Ohio State to complete his career. Sophomores Aaron Bradshaw and Sean Stewart, from Kentucky and Duke respectively, bring high expectations. Fifth-year players Micah Parrish and Ques Glover add experience and leadership, with Parrish having played in the 2023 national championship with San Diego State.

Freshman Colin White, Ohio's reigning Mr. Basketball, and top shooter John Mobley Jr. are also expected to make significant contributions.

Texas, coming off a 21-13 season and a second-round NCAA Tournament appearance, features preseason All-SEC Team members Tre Johnson and Tramon Mark.

Ohio State is currently in Las Vegas preparing for the game and held a clinic for military families.



Texas (-3, -155) is currently favored to win.
 
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TDunk said:
Might want to change the title to Monday Nov 4.
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Thanks, the actual article even says Monday....:smash:


Ohio State Basketball Season Preview: Jake Diebler Relying On Upside in Frontcourt, Veterans in Backcourt​

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The experience of Ohio State’s backcourt is something the team will lean on with a frontcourt composed of underclassmen.

Junior point guard Bruce Thornton, likely to be a captain for the third time in as many seasons, is the mechanism behind it all. A starter since the first game of his freshman season, the preseason All-Big Ten performer upped his game as a sophomore in 2023-24 with 15.7 points and 4.8 assists per game, both team-highs.

“What I'm excited about is Bruce has grown his game, raised his level this offseason,” Diebler said. “It's not going to be a case where you're looking at a guy who just goes from sophomore to junior year and is a little bit better. I believe he's going to make a jump, and he and I have talked openly about him improving his efficiency and pace and things like that, and he's embraced that.”

Starting alongside him is Meechie Johnson Jr., a fifth-year senior. Johnson spent his first two seasons of college ball at Ohio State in a minor role, then transferred to South Carolina for two years and turned into a star before transferring back to Columbus this past offseason. He picked up 14.1 points and 2.9 assists last season as the Gamecocks went from 11-21 his first year there to 26-8 in year two.

Both Johnson and Thornton will need to work to improve their overall efficiency, however. Johnson shot 32.1% from three last season while Thornton had a 3-point shooting mark of 33.3%, a significant dip from his 37.5% mark as a freshman. Ohio State lost far and away its best 3-point shooter from the 2023-24 season in Jamison Battle, so it’s going to be critical that the team’s guards are consistent threats from outside. Not that Diebler doesn’t want frontcourt players who can knock shots down from outside, too.

“Pace and space go hand in hand for us,” Diebler said. “We want to be really good at both of those, and I think that will allow us to put teams in rotation more and will ultimately help us to get better looks from three. We certainly increased our three-point value from our first scrimmage to our second, which was good. We needed to do that. And we want to continue that for that to be a big part of our game.”

It’s up for debate who will be the first player off the bench behind Johnson and Thornton. Freshman sharpshooter John Mobley Jr., a top-50 prospect who shot 41.5% from downtown in Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League last year and was dubbed “the Sniper” in 247Sports’ recruiting class of 2024 superlatives, seems to be the most likely option.

Kansas State transfer Ques Glover has the benefit of experience, however. A sixth-year senior, he spent the first two years of his college career at Florida before turning into a two-time first-team All-Southern Conference performer at Samford and heading off to the Wildcats. He missed all of last season due to injury but has a 19.2 point-per-game season with Samford in 2021-22 to his credit.

The veteran presence of Thornton, Johnson and Glover paired with the talents of the freshman Mobley should make the backcourt the backbone of Diebler’s first roster.

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