After an unexpectedly successful 2017-18 season, many seem to believe that Chris Holtmann’s second year in Columbus will be a bit of a regression to the mean. Losing four key contributors to graduation, on paper it looks like the program will come into this campaign simply treading water until its top-5 2019 recruiting class comes to Columbus next summer.
However, if there’s anything that Holtmann’s first go-round with the Buckeyes should have taught us it’s that it is not wise to underestimate the man running OSU’s program. Ohio State comes into the fall picked to finish eighth in the Big Ten by the conference media, and nary a Buckeye made the Preseason All-B1G Ten Team.