The whispers surrounding Ohio State basketball are turning more and more into full-throated shouts following the team’s latest defeat, an 89-66 drubbing at the hands of Wisconsin that wasn’t even as close as the score would suggest. It isn’t the fact that the Buckeyes lost to a good Badgers squad, one that boasts three players – Nigel Hayes, Ethan Happ, and Bronson Koenig – that should contend for All-Big Ten first team honors at the end of the season, and did so in Madison, one of the toughest places in the country to pick up a road win. It isn’t even the fact that Ohio State fell to 0-4 in conference play. It’s the way the Buckeyes lost. “We just didn’t make an effort as a team,” sophomore guard C.J. Jackson said. “We quit on plays and we weren’t ourselves tonight, and it showed.” The fact that, in a year…
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