Four-Star Point Guard Bruce Thornton Commits to Ohio State

If Bruce Thornton had it his way, he wouldn’t have told anybody of his decision. He’d had just, out of the blue, sent out a four-word tweet that got straight to the point: “Committed to Ohio State.”

“Jake (Diebler) was like, ‘Wait a second,’” said Allen Whitehart, Thornton’s basketball coach at Milton High School.

Size: 6-foot-2, 200 pounds

Composite Rank: #30 overall, #7 point guard

Whitehart described Thornton as a “simple man” who’s “not into all the hoopla.” But when the high-end four-star point guard from Alpharetta, Georgia, told Diebler of his plan to make his decision public, the Buckeyes assistant coach told him to reconsider. As Whitehart put it, they wanted to “make it special for…