Coaches at all levels of basketball set attainable goals. Chris Holtmann, in his third year leading the Buckeyes, is no different.
Like Ryan Day, who stood at midcourt during Ohio State basketball’s 62-59 loss to Minnesota on Thursday and told a fired-up Schottenstein Center than he won’t let the football team forget about the Fiesta Bowl loss to Clemson, Holtmann intended to use what happened last year as motivation for the 2019-20 season. As Duane Washington Jr. revealed before the season began, the coaching staff pulled four numbers from the 2018-19 season and plastered them all over the place, from the locker room entrance to screens in the weight room.