One hypothetical basketball game for all the marbles, and Eleven Warriors' Griffin Strom and Dan Hope are the two team captains. The players populating the court for this make-believe matchup are, of course, the Ohio State Buckeyes themselves, who officially begin the 2021-22 season next Tuesday at home against Akron.
The first pick was a foregone conclusion, given that E.J. Liddell is a returning first-team All-Big Ten honoree, and Dan received the benefit of a coin toss to land the Ohio State junior and Illinois native as the overall No. 1 in the team draft.
After that, though, the rest of the draft order became considerably more difficult to discern.