For more than three weeks, Chris Holtmann had to stay locked in on Ohio State’s numerous comings and goings.
The player movement beginning just one week after the NCAA tournament got canceled didn’t exactly lend itself to contemplation about what had happened the previous four-and-a-half months. Holtmann had other things to worry about. Namely, next season’s roster. In the modern era of college basketball, that’s what mostly occupies a head coach’s time in the month after a season.
For him, it began with DJ Carton’s entrance into the transfer portal on March 19 and finally concluded with the addition of Utah State’s Abel Porter as a graduate transfer on Saturday.