PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Ohio State basketball’s NCAA Tournament run ended Sunday with a 71-61 loss to Villanova in the second round at PPG Paints Arena. The Buckeyes went down by as many as 15 points in the second half before a late surge allowed them to crawl back into the game. They overcame a poor shooting first half (38.5%) while the Wildcats shot north of 53%. The Buckeyes once again lost big man Kyle Young after he took an inadvertent elbow in the head by Collin Gillespie. He left the game with 8:55 remaining, then OSU proceeded to make five of its next seven shots while Villanova suffered its first real scoring drought of the afternoon. A 15-point deficit was a 60-58 game with less than five minutes to play. Young would not return. He’d already missed time this season with a concussion, and it was the third time he’d…
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