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SF Justin Ahrens (transfer to Loyola Marymount)

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The rankings continue today with Justin Ahrens.

No. 7 – Justin Ahrens
Position: Wing

Class: Senior (fourth year)

Height/weight: 6 feet 6 / 195 pounds

Jersey number: 10

Major: Hospitality management

Background
A native of Versailles, Ohio, Ahrens committed to Ohio State and coach Thad Matta for the class of 2018 in August of 2016. A childhood fan of the program, he picked the Buckeyes within a month of being offered and also held offers from St. Louis, Toledo, Miami (Ohio), Oakland and Stony Brook at the time. Within a year, though, Matta was fired and Ahrens opted to re-open his recruitment and look around. H

Ahrens was then re-recruited by new Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann, who offered him a scholarship. So, too, did Michigan, Xavier and a host of others, but Ahrens took official visits to see the Buckeyes, Wolverines and Musketeers before re-committing to the Buckeyes in September of 2017. His commitment capped a frenetic week where Ohio State landed pledges from, in order, Jaedon LeDee,
Duane Washington Jr. and Luther Muhammad.


He arrived at Ohio State as a three-star prospect in the 247Sports.com composite database, which listed him as the No. 7 player from Ohio, the No. 54 small forward in the nation and the overall No. 249 prospect. The 2017 and 2018 Ohio Division III Co-Player of the Year, Ahrens scored 46 points while hitting 10 threes in his season opener as a senior and left Versailles holding program records in around 10 categories and as his conference’s all-time leading scorer.

As a freshman, he mostly saw minimal playing time for the first two-thirds of the season before playing himself into the spotlight in unprecedented fashion. In a 90-70 blowout home win against No. 22 Iowa, Ahrens exploded for 29 points on 6-of-10 three-point shooting after having scored a total of 38 points and made nine three-pointers during the first 27 games. It came after Ahrens had been seeing increased playing time, and it gave a taste of what might be looming for Ahrens as a sophomore. He averaged 3.2 points and 1.8 rebounds in 9.6 minutes per game as a freshman.
 
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brodybuck21 said:
Bigtime performance by Justin last night. His defense looks much improved too
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Yep. He gets a bad rap because he's guarding probably the best athlete on the other teams at SF, but he gives great effort on Defense and is often challenging the shot well. The matchups are just tough as hell and some games he's going to get out athlete'd, if thats not terrible English.

On Offense we're starting to see him cut and drive which you can tell ruins the defender because they aren't thinking he'll do that. Then when he's feeling it you better guard him from 25 feet because it's going to rain. Raftery had a great point that when he's on the court, it's 4 on 4 for the Buckeyes because he pulls his man so far out of the lane that the other 4 have the rest of the court. Given EJ and co. the rest of the court should always be Buckeye advantage. Then when Ahrens' man tries to help out kick and shoot
 
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nomatta said:
Mortified about the Justin Ahrens vs. Wendell Moore match-up Tuesday.
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Kid held his own. 17 pts for Moore but Justin played pretty good defense all night.

He is starting to take guys off the dribble and he can do it just been holding that back for whatever reason. With Russell able to hit the 3 consistently might take a lot of pressure off him. We'll see.
 
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