It wasn’t the most convincing victory by any stretch of the imagination, but Ohio State was finally able to get off the schneid with a win over Minnesota on Thursday afternoon. The Buckeyes scored the first 13 points of the contest and led wire-to-wire, but as has been the case many a time this season, Chris Holtmann’s team got a bit too comfortable at the end and allowed the Golden Gophers to make things more interesting than they should have been in the closing seconds.
Leading by 14 points with a little over two minutes remaining, it seemed as though Ohio State would cruise to a victory in its Big Ten Tournament opener.