1) Ohio State was a fringe tournament team for most of last season, finishing 8th in the Big Ten and making it to the second round on the strength of an upset over Iowa State. I’m sure that the Buckeyes were expecting to improve on that finish, but was anyone around the program ready for how strong this team would look right out of the gate and what has been the key for this extremely impressive start?
There was a lot of excitement about this Buckeye team coming into the season, because of how much Chris Holtmann has helped his teams overachieve in his first two seasons in Columbus, the maturation of last year’s incredibly young team, and the best recruiting class in the Big Ten.