Ohio State men’s basketball head coach Chris Holtmann announced last week that the Buckeyes wouldn’t be playing in a season-opening tournament at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, SD with some of the best teams in the country. But at the time, he wasn’t able to share what his team’s plans would be moving forward, including when the season would start and who the first game would be against. On Monday morning, Holtmann delivered some good news to Buckeye Nation during a local radio interview on 97.1 The Fan. The Buckeyes will open the 2020-21 campaign on November 25 against the Illinois State Redbirds out of the Missouri Valley Conference. The Redbirds finished last year 10-21, including a 5-13 record in conference play. They seemed to play some extremely competitive games outside of the conference, including a 1-point loss to Cincinnati and a 2-point loss to UCF. But the Redbirds…
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