Most big-time university athletic programs get tagged as either a football or basketball school when it comes to the revenue sports. Hardly ever do you find a school that is known as both. But despite perceptions, it does exist.
In fact, I often find myself defending the historical resume Ohio State has in basketball. You could easily make an argument that it’s a top ten program of all time when you stack up all the Final Fours, conference championships, and All-American players.
And while it’d be tough for hoops to ever get the media coverage and fan following as football on the banks of the Olentangy, there’s no denying that the Buckeyes have been fantastic in both, and not just years ago when peach baskets were used to score points. It’s happened in recent years too.
Rivals did a piece titled “The Best of Both Worlds,” and it’s a look at the best college programs in both basketball and football combined over the last four years. Amazingly enough, even with the basketball program not being at quite the level it was a few years ago, Ohio State is still tied at the top with Clemson with the metrics Rivals used.
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So what did Adam Gorney say about OSU’s success in both?