As soon as the season ended, we went through an exercise of projecting what Ohio State basketball’s starting lineup and key contributors could look like for the 2021-2022 season. We then followed that up after some more changes. Musa Jallow transferred out of the program. The Buckeyes brought in Penn State transfer guard Jabari Wheeler and Indiana transfer Joey Brunk. Kyle Young surprised everyone by deciding to come back for one more season.
And now, with both NBA decisions being made by E.J. Liddell (he’s returning) and Duane Washington (he’s not), the roster is as set as it has ever been. Yeah, seems like the perfect time to go through projecting the Ohio State basketball lineup again. Sure, we could still see a transfer add maybe, but more or less, we know the general landscape of everything.
With all of that in mind, here is our third — and likely final effort — at projecting what the five starters for the next hoops season at Ohio State could look like, with a run through the rest of the key contributors.
As always, and as we’ve stated before, we reserve the right to change this and be wrong, because — well, college basketball.