The game was closer than Ohio State head coach Kevin McGuff would have liked, but the Buckeyes came away with a 88-78 win over Ashland in the team's preseason exhibition game.
McGuff was terribly displeased with what he saw from his team.
"We had an overall lack of focus and effort that was disappointing quite frankly," McGuff said. "Give credit to Ashland, I thought they played a great game. They executed and kind of stuck with what they wanted to do and didn't waver from that. And we didn't do anything to make it hard on them.