The Ohio State basketball team is going to consider this one a game that it let get away.
It was another hard-fought Big ten battle for the Ohio State basketball team, and this time the Buckeyes couldn’t quite get it done, falling to Northwestern 71-70. It was a nip and tuck affair all along, but OSU controlled the lead for most of the game, until the very end when the Wildcats hit some huge shots to wrestle victory away from defeat.
Ohio State played a pretty solid game, and you have to give credit to Northwestern for sticking to it, playing through some adversity, and making the plays it had to down the stretch, but OSU had a shot to win it. With 12.0 seconds left, Duane Washington was trusted to dribble drive to the rim, had a layup, and simply missed the shot. E.J. Liddell got the rebound through physical contact, but couldn’t get a shot up. Northwestern corralled the loose ball and got fouled with two seconds left, effectively sealing the deal.
As we do with every OSU basketball game, here are three big things we took away from the close-shave loss against the Northwestern Wildcats Saturday.