A familiar friend (and university) will be coming to Columbus to scrimmage the Ohio State men's basketball team in a few months.
The Buckeyes are set to host Ohio University for a preseason exhibition game on Oct. 15, sources have told Eleven Warriors. The scrimmage will be open to the public.
In what could be a make-or-break season for Jake Diebler and the Buckeyes, Ohio State will host a Bobcats team that has consistently been in the top half of the MAC ever since head coach Jeff Boals took over in Athens in 2019. Ohio won the 2021 MAC Conference Tournament and has finished with 19 wins or more three of the past four years, though it went just 16-16 in 2024-25.