Whatever wellspring of want-to or can-do that Ohio State accessed at Michigan either ran dry or denied the Buckeyes access Sunday at Wisconsin in an embarrassingly-meek 70-57 defeat. Without a closing 14-2 rally at the end when Wisconsin emptied its bench, the outcome would have been uglier, but not even in bratwurst county was there enough lipstick to beautify this pig in the eyes of OSU head coach Chris Holtmann. “Right from the start, I felt like we didn’t have enough stuff to us to beat a good team on the road,” Holtmann said “We were not tough enough, certainly. It kind of came about in a lot of different ways. Disappointing.” Wisconsin is a clutching, grabbing, frustratingly-maddening opponent to play, particularly in the Bermuda Triangle of the Kohl Center, where it had already taken down both Maryland and Michigan State, the Big Ten’s top teams. The Badgers figured to be…
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