Ohio State fans lured into the intoxicating fantasy of a high-scoring, precision offense carrying the Buckeyes to the national championship need to instead fall in love with the process of winning over how pretty those victories play out. That much is evident, not just from OSU’s 68-52 victory over Purdue on Saturday, but from the five wins in six games that have stabilized a promising season that threatened to go south. From four-games under .500 in the Big Ten, the Buckeyes (17-8, 7-7) are finally at .500 in the league for the first time this season — an occasion no one figured to mark with balloons or candy when they stormed out of the gate 9-0 and wasted basketball bluebloods like Villanova, North Carolina and Kentucky in the process. Those days of double-digit blowouts and routine scoring outputs of 75 points or more are probably a thing of the past…
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