January 15, 2025

Ohio State Wins Big Ten Opener in Rout of Penn State


There might not be room right now on the radar screens of Ohio State’s fan base for anything beyond the top-ranked Buckeyes’ pursuit of a College Football Playoff championship. If so, we’re going to need a bigger radar screen. Quietly—because everything done in every sport at Ohio State is quiet compared to the noise of an unbeaten football team—the basketball Buckeyes are proving themselves worthy of their own No. 1 aspirations. Saturday, for the second time this week, and for the third time this season, OSU made a very good team look very pedestrian in a 106-74 humbling of Penn State. The Nittany Lions aren’t thought of as basketball royalty, but North Carolina certainly is, and Ohio State throttled the No. 7 Tar Heels, 74-49, on Wednesday to go with a 76-51 throttling of No. 10 Villanova. “When you sign up here, in my position, you realize that’s the position…

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