After the men’s basketball Buckeyes’ end of the regular season slump, diehard fans looked at last year and hoped for a similar turnaround in the Big Ten tournament. That didn’t happen, as the Bucks gave up an early lead and lost, rather unexpectedly, to the Penn State Nittany Lions.
We knew that big man Kyle Young wouldn’t play in the tourney opener, but Zed Key and Meechie Johnson Jr. were possibilities. As the game went on and they still didn’t play, I figured that Chris Holtmann was holding them out for a Friday match-up with Purdue.