COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two accomplished Ohio State scorers sat together Friday with a total of 531 points this season, JaQuan Lyle and Keita Bates-Diop averaging a combined 21.7 points per game for the 15-10 Buckeyes.
Important question - how can players like that possibly have eight games this season in which they scored 2 points or fewer?
How can players will skills like Lyle, the muscular 6-foot-5 freshman point guard, and Bates-Diop, the lithe 6-7 sophomore wing scorer, have combined for three scoring shutouts?
Bates-Diop has two games this year where he scored zero points, in 13 minutes at Northwestern and 22 minutes at Purdue, while Lyle absorbed a 26-minute blanking at Connecticut.