Ohio State Gets Brief Big Ten Break With Makeup Game Against IUPUI

And now we interrupt your regularly scheduled Big Ten programming for a non-conference matchup that looks a bit peculiar on paper.

Ohio State gets a brief respite from the conference grind Tuesday, instead taking on an IUPUI program from the Horizon League that has won just one of its 15 games this season. The Buckeyes scheduled the contest to make up for the three games that were canceled due to their COVID-19 pause in December, but the end result may be something that resembles more of a glorified scrimmage.

“We wanted games for our guys. We could certainly practice, and that's important, but we just wanted game repetition for our guys. That's kind of the bottom line,” Ohio State head coach…