Ohio State's men's basketball team upended Illinois in Champaign Thursday, gaining a game toward a possible regular season Big Ten championship. Three days later, the same team tanked hard on the road at Maryland.
At times, it has simply felt like that kind of season for the Buckeyes, a team that is on track to earn a double-bye in the Big Ten tournament, and that badly needs to get past the first round of the Big Dance known as March Madness... but that also has struggled to close games more than once and that relies on a rotating cast of characters as a third scorer behind E.