Ohio State’s basketball season has come to an abrupt, shocking, and unexpected end. The team that seemed to have grabbed momentum heading into the NCAA Tournament with a run all the way to the Big Ten Championship game became just the ninth No. 2 seed to be ousted in the first round by a No. 15 seed.
We’ll get into the nuts and bolts of all of it, but it was about as ugly as it gets if you are a Buckeye hoops fan. Ohio State will now head home to turn the page towards next season and try and understand what happened in a matchup it should have owned.
After every game, we give you some takeaways and observations from the action on the court, and we’re doing the same here in a bit of a somber mood. Sadly, here are five takeaways from Ohio State’s shocking upset at the hands of Oral Roberts.