Taison Chatman might be a redshirt sophomore, but in many ways, the 2025-26 season feels like his first.
Well, in one way, primarily. It’s the first campaign of his career that Chatman enters healthy. The composite No. 39 prospect in the recruiting class of 2023, he missed time to start the 2023-24 season with an injury and never seemed to reach 100%.
Then, in the summer of 2024, Chatman tore his ACL. His entire sophomore season was wiped away.
“It was hard,” Chatman told Eleven Warriors at Ohio State basketball media day. “Probably the first two or three weeks was the hardest, just realizing that I’m gonna miss the whole year.