The ebbs and flows of a season have taken the tide of despair buffeting the Ohio State basketball program out to sea for the moment, and the Buckeyes would prefer to keep it. They can, with a win at Wisconsin on Sunday (1 p.m., CBS), which would be OSU’s fourth straight triumph and complete an extreme makeover of a once-unsightly Big Ten record to .500 in the league. But a loss, particularly via the dominant fashion the Badgers often torment their opponents at home, would bring back a tidal wave of doubt about how tough the Buckeyes are when adversity attacks. Such questions about their fortitude dominated during a stretch in which they lost six of seven games, including down-to-the-wire home defeats against Wisconsin and Minnesota. Put those games on the left side of the won-loss ledger and OSU’s record (15-7, 5-6) looks dramatically better and its NCAA resume is…
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