COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State has only won one national championship in basketball, and that was 60 years ago with Hall of Fame players Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek, and a backup forward who would later become a coaching legend, Indiana’s Bob Knight. They were honored during a celebration at halftime of Thursday night’s Illinois-Ohio State game, and Knight was in attendance with all of his living teammates. He received a rousing ovation from the crowd when he was introduced. Ten members of the team, including Lucas, Knight and Mel Nowell, were in attendance along with the wives of Larry Siegfried, who died in 2010, and John Havlicek, who died last year. Each member of the team was introduced individually to the crowd, with Knight, Lucas and the widows of Havlicek and Siegfried drawing particularly large ovations. That 1960 team was coached by Fred Taylor and featured two of the…
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