Before Sonny Styles begins his Ohio State football career this summer, he’s trying to win a high school basketball state championship first.
Although he reclassified into Ohio State’s recruiting class of 2022, which means he will skip his senior year at Pickerington Central High School to join the Buckeyes a year early, his high school sports career isn’t quite done yet. He’s hoping it will continue for at least one more week, as he’s trying to help lead the Pickerington Central boys’ basketball team to its second state championship.
Styles, who picked up a handful of Division I basketball offers over the summer but has since decided to focus exclusively on football in college, is an impact player on both ends of the floor for the Tigers, who have gone 23-2 this season and are set to play Gahanna Lincoln in the Columbus regional final at 7 p.