Mandatory Credit: Greg Bartram-USA TODAY Sports Buckeyes Hold Off UNC Asheville, 79-77 by Dillon Davis Another close call for Ohio State. Ohio State finished their non conference schedule on Thursday night with a sloppy 79-77 victory over UNC Asheville. The Buckeyes danced with the devil all night as they could not seem to put the Bulldogs away, leading 62-52 with 7 minutes to go, but some costly turnovers and timely shots by UNC Asheville made this a game real quick. Then it seemed like the Buckeyes lost their cool. With 6 minutes left, Marc Loving got called for traveling and appeared to say something to the officials that caused him to get a technical and UNC Asheville used this opportunity to make it 62-61. Then after some back and forth baskets for about 2 minutes, Trevor Thompson picked up a very questionable technical foul and that gave him his fifth…
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