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Ohio State's 1960 National Champions Discuss Expectations for Current Buckeyes, Differences Between Then and Now

Only one team in Ohio State basketball history has ever won an NCAA championship.

Fifty-nine seasons have passed since the 1960 Ohio State men’s basketball team won the NCAA Tournament, and the Buckeyes haven’t been able to win the sport’s biggest prize since. A few teams have come close – most notably, the 2007 Buckeyes, which lost to Florida in the national championship game – but none of them have been able to go all the way.

Even so, Jerry Lucas – the star of that 1960 team and one of the greatest players in program history – believes the expectations for Ohio State shouldn’t be anything less than what he, John Havlicek, Larry Siegfried and the rest of his teammates accomplished 60 years ago.