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November25 Illinois State W, 94(23)-67 ESPN229 1-UMass Lowell W,
74(23)-64 BTNDecember 2 1-Morehead State W, 77(23)-44 BTN5 Alabama
A&M Canceled 8 3-at Notre Dame W, 90(23)-85 ESPN213 Cleveland
State W, 67(23)-61 BTN16 at Purdue L, 60(20)-67 BTN19 2-vs. UCLA W,
77(20)-70 CBS23 Rutgers W, 80(23)-68(11) BTN26 at Northwestern L,
70(23)-71 FS130 Nebraska W, 90(25)-54 BTNJanuary3 at Minnesota L,
60(25)-77(21) BTN6 Penn State Postponed 9 at Rutgers W, 79-68(15)
BTN13 Northwestern W, 81(21)-71 BTN16 at Illinois W, 87(21)-81(14)
FOX19 Purdue 6:30 p.m. BTN23 at Wisconsin 4 p.m. CBS31 Michigan
State 1 p.m. CBSFebruary4 at Iowa TBA ESPN8 at Maryland TBA FS113
Indiana TBA ESPN/ESPN218 at Penn State TBA BTN21 Michigan TBA CBS25
at Michigan State TBA ESPN/ESPN228 Iowa TBA CBSMarch6 Illinois TBA
ESPN/ESPN2All times EDT // 1-at Covelli Center // 2-ACC/B1G
Challenge // 3-CBSSports Classic at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse;
Cleveland
OHIO STATEMEN’S BASKETBALL
1898 FIRST SEASON • 1 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP • 10 NCAA FINAL
FOURS • 14 SWEET 16 APPEARANCES29 NCAA APPEARANCES • 20 BIG TEN
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS • 27 CONSENSUS ALL-AMERICANS
GAME 14
15 OHIO STATE 113, 53 B1G vs.PURDUE 105, 53 B1G
6:30 p.m. • Tues., Jan. 19 • Columbus, Ohio • Value City Arena •
BTN • 97.1 FM The Fan
Head Coach: Chris Holtmann Rec. at Ohio State: 77-37 (4th)Career
Record: 191-122 (10th)Career vs. Purdue: 3-3
Head Coach: Matt PainterRecord at PU: 347-179 (16 yrs)Career
Record: 372-184 (17th)Career vs. Ohio State: 11-18
GAME BASICS No. 15 Ohio State and Purdue meet on the
hardwood at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Value City Arena in Columbus.
The Big Ten Network will televise.
The Buckeyes look to even the season series with the
Boilermakers after Purdue earned a 67-60 win in West Lafayette Dec.
16 to open the Big Ten Conference season.
Ohio State is 5-3 in the Big Ten after wins at No. 15 Rutgers,
vs. Northwestern in Columbus and at No. 14 Illinois. The Buckeyes
are 3-0 in home conference games this season.
Chris Holtmann’s teams are 3-3 vs. Purdue. The Boilermakers are
89-85 in the series but trail Ohio State 55-30 in games played in
Columbus. The Buckeyes are 11-3 vs. Purdue at Value City Arena.
When ranked among the Top 25 in the Associated Press poll, Ohio
State is 28-8 vs. the Boilermakers.
The Ohio State home game vs. Purdue was originally scheduled for
Jan. 27 in Columbus but was moved up by the Big Ten as the
conference works to reschedule league games aff ected by
COVID-19.
BY THE NUMBERS
341Holtmann Era: When Ohio State builds a 10-point lead or more
vs. a Big Ten foe, the Buckeyes are 34-1 and are 66-3 vs. all
opponents.
52.8Justin Ahrens has connected on 52.8% from 3-point range this
season (28-53) after knocking down 3-of-5 from distance at
Illinois. He has taken just two shots inside the arc this season
(1-2).
All three Ohio State freshmen scored on their fi rst shots as
Buckeyes after Meechie John-son Jr. made a 3 vs. North-western
Wednesday. Zed Key (2 ptr.) and Eugene Brown III (3 ptr.) did so
vs. Illinois State.
93.4C.J. Walker (42 of 43; 97.7 pct.) and Duane Washington Jr.
(43 of 48; 89.6 pct.) are combining to make 93.4% of their free
throw attempts this season (85 of 91).
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OHIO STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL FACTS & MORE
Chris Holtmann, now in his fourth year at Ohio State, has guided
seven-consecutive teams to 20-or-more win seasons and he has led
teams to fi ve-consecutive NCAA Tourna-ment appearances
(2015-16-17-18-19.)
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MORE TEAM NOTES
Ohio State signed three Ohioans in November in a recruiting
class rated among the Top 10 nationally:- G Malaki Branham: 6-5 and
190 from Akron and St. Vincent-St. Mary H.S. - F Kalen Etzler: 6-8
and 200 from Convoy and Crestview H.S.- G Meechie Johnson Jr.: 6-2
and 185 from Cleveland and Garfi eld Heights. Johnson joined the
Buckeyes in December after graduating early from Garfi eld Heights.
Ohio State will wear six possible uniform combinations this year: -
Primary home and away- Scarlet “Clark Kellogg” era- Gray “Jim
Jackson” era throwbacks- Two yet-to-be-released versions
#0 MEECHIE JOHNSON, 6 2, 170, FR. G CLEVELAND GARFIELD HEIGHTS
H.S.
Saw rst action as a Buckeye at Rutgers Jan. 9 Made rst shot he
took, a 3-pointer vs. Northwestern Jan. 13 Graduated early from Gar
eld Heights High School in Cleveland to enroll early at Ohio State
in December Has made all 3 attempts from 3-point range to date
#1 JIMMY SOTOS, 6 2, 200, SR. G ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. CONANT
H.S.
Pronounced SOE-tose Has played in 12 games Started vs. Purdue
and at Rutgers Started all 34 games for Bucknell last year and led
the team in scoring (11.5), assists (3.9) and steals (1.6) Scored
over 20 points in 5 games last year Led Patriot League in assists
in 2018-19 with 6.1 per game Has played in 112 collegiate games Has
missed the last two games with shoulder injury suff ered during a
start at Rutgers Jan. 9 Reached 400 assists for his career with
four at Rutgers ... recorded 390 helpers at Bucknell, 403 total One
career double double with 14 points and 12 assists vs. UNLV
12/25/18 in Honolulu, Hawai’i
#2 MUSA JALLOW, 6 5, 210, JR. G BLOOMINGTON, IND. NORTH H.S.
Pronounced MOOSE-uh JAHL-oh Working his way back from injury
Season highs of 8 points and 7 rebounds at home vs. Rutgers; 8
points also vs. UCLA Missed 2019-20 season (ankle surgery) Has
played in 79 games with 24 starts Two-time Academic All-Big Ten
honoree
#3 EUGENE BROWN III, 6 6, 195, FR. G CONYERS, GA. SOUTHWEST
DEKALB
Made all three 3-point attempts for nine points in win over UCLA
Has played in all 14 games
COACH CHRIS HOLTMANN NOTES
Took over the Ohio State program on June 12, 2017 after three
highly-successful years at Butler (70-31 with three NCAA Tournament
appearances from 2014-17). Conference Coach of the Year in the Big
South (2013 at Gardner-Webb), BIG EAST (2017 at Butler) and the Big
Ten (2018 at Ohio State). 14th head coach in Ohio State history is
a 1994 graduate of Taylor University (psychology) and has a
master’s from Ball State. Has coached seven-consecutive teams to
20-or-more victories. The 21-win team last year defeated three
conference champions: Villanova, North Carolina, Kentucky and
Maryland. Joined Brad Stevens as only Butler coach to lead the
Bulldogs to NCAA berths in fi rst three seasons. Among a select
group to coach an NCAA Tournament win the past fi ve years: Mike
Krzyzewski, Jay Wright, Mark Few, Bill Self, Roy Williams and John
Calipari. Is from Nicholasville, Ky., near Lexington. Holtmann and
wife, Lori, have a young daughter, Nora Jane.
Led DeKalb to back-to-back state tournaments, a school rst
Averaged 17 points/9.0 rebs. as a senior playing for his father,
Eugene Brown, Jr. First team all-state as a senior by the Atlanta
Journal Constitution
#4 DUANE WASHINGTON, 6 3, 210, JR. G GRAND RAPIDS, MICH SIERRA
CANYON
Leads team in scoring at 15.4 points per game ... second on team
in scoring last year (11.5) Reached 700 points for his career with
13 vs. Nebraska then added 21 points at Minnesota and a team-high
17 at Rutgers. He tallied a career-high 23 points in the recent win
over Northwestern Four games this season with 20 or more points ...
owns seven career games with 20+ Has three times topped
career-highs this year: 21 vs. UMass Lowell, 22 vs. Rutgers and 23
recently vs. Northwestern 77 games played and 31 starts Shooting
90% from the foul line this season (43-48) ree years in HS at Grand
Rapids (Mich.) Christian; at Sierra Canyon (Calif.) as a Sr.
#10 JUSTIN AHRENS, 6 6, 195, JR. G VERSAILLES, OHIO VERSAILLES
H.S.
Pronounced ARNS 28 of 53 (.528) from 3-point range with at least
one made 3 in 11-of-14 games ... has seven games with multiple
makes and is 7-of-10 from distance the last two games Connected on
3-of-5 triples last time out at No. 14 Illinois, and made 4-of-5
vs. Northwestern Two 2-point attempts on the season (1-2) Reached
100 career rebounds with a defensive board at Illinois Season-high
18 points in win vs. Nebraska Career-high 29 points as a frosh vs.
Iowa, including 25 in the second half Has played in 65 games
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202021 OHIO STATE NUMERICAL ROSTERNo. Name Pos. Hgt. Wgt. Cl.
Hometown / H.S. or Last School 0 Meechie Johnson Jr. G 6-2 170 Fr.
Cleveland, Ohio / Garfi eld Heights 1 Jimmy Sotos G 6-3 200 Sr. Elk
Grove Village, Ill. / Bucknell 2 Musa Jallow G 6-5 210 Jr.
Bloomington, Ind. / North 3 Eugene Brown III G 6-6 195 Fr. Conyers,
Ga. / Southwest DeKalb 4 Duane Washington, Jr. G 6-3 190 Jr. Grand
Rapids, Mich. / Sierra Canyon10 Justin Ahrens G 6-6 195 Jr.
Versailles, Ohio / Versailles13 C.J. Walker G 6-1 195 Sr.
Indianapolis, Ind. / Florida State14 Justice Sueing F 6-7 215 Jr.
Honolulu, Hawai’i / California15 Ibrahima Diallo C 6-10 220 So.
Saly, Senegal / Prolifi c Prep23 Zed Key F 6-8 245 Fr. Bay Shore,
N.Y. / Long Island Lutheran25 Kyle Young F 6-8 225 Sr. Canton, Ohio
/ Jackson31 Seth Towns F 6-8 230 Gr. Columbus, Ohio / Harvard32
E.J. Liddell F 6-7 240 So. Belleville, Ill. / West40 Jansen
Davidson Jr. G 5-11 190 Sr. Kettering, Ohio / Fairmont 42 Harrison
Hookfi n F 6-6 200 Jr. Cincinnati, Ohio / Lebanon
#13 C.J. WALKER, 6 1, 195, SR. G INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL TECH
8.7 points and 4.2 assists in 2020 and leads team in minutes
(346; 31.5 per game) Has knocked down 42-43 from FT line (97.7
pct.) Started 29 games last year and averaged 8.7 points and 3.1
rebounds and had team-highs with 107 assists and 40 steals
Career-high tying 7 assists vs. Purdue (12/16/20)
#23 ZED KEY, 6 8, 245, FR. F BAY SHORE, N.Y. LONG ISLAND
LUTH.
Averaging 7.0 points and 3.9 rebounds per game ... needs two
points to reach 100 this season Outstanding vs. Cleveland State
with career-high 12 points and 10 rebounds and vs. UCLA with 11
points and six rebounds Hitting 60.0% of his eld goals (33 of 55)
Second on team with 14 blocks, E.J. Liddell leads with 15 First
career double double vs. Cleveland State with 12 points and 10
rebounds First career start came at Purdue Led Lutheran HS in
scoring and rebounding as a senior with 18 points and 8.7
rebounds
#25 KYLE YOUNG, 6 8, 225, SR. F CANTON, OHIO JACKSON H.S.
Terri c with career-high 17 points and 12 rebounds in win over
Rutgers 12/23/20 Started 25 games last year, averaging 7.5 points
and 5.8 rebounds Double-doubles last year vs. Cincinnati (14-13)
and Stetson (15-10) Veteran of 94 games played, 52 starts 530
career points; 406 rebounds Two-time Academic All-Big Ten
honoree
Transfer from Florida State where he started 35 times and played
in 68 games Currently out with torn ligaments in his right,
non-shooting, hand
#14 JUSTICE SUEING, 6 7, 215, JR. F HONOLULU, HAWAI’I MATER DEI
H.S.
Scored six points at Minnesota to move past the career
1,000-point mark ... scored 886 in two years at California ... has
150 as a Buckeye (1,036) Averaging 10.7 points, 5.3 rebounds Led
Ohio State with 19 points and 8 rebounds in debut game vs. Illinois
State Working on 500 career rebounds ... has 432 to date, including
74 this season Sat out last season after transferring from Cal
where he averaged a team-high 14.3 points and 6.0 rebounds per game
as a sophomore in 2018-19 and 13.8 points and 5.4 boards per
contest as a freshman
#15 IBRAHIMA DIALLO, 6 10, 220, SO. C SALY, SENEGAL PROLIFIC
PREP
Pronounced EE-bruh-he-muh dee-AL-oh Appeared in eight games off
the bench in 2019-20, averaging 1.3/1.9 points/rebs. Will miss time
with a knee injury suff ered in practice prior to the Nebraska game
Dec. 30, 2020.
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#31 SETH TOWNS, 6 8, 230, GR. F COLUMBUS, OHIO NORTHLAND
H.S.
Missed last two years at Harvard (injury), graduated and
transfered to Ohio State for 2020-21 season OSU debut vs. UCLA; rst
action since Ivy League title game March 11, 2018 26 points and
nine rebounds off bench in games at NW and vs. Nebraska Contributed
11 points in road win over No. 14 Illinois going 4-of-6 from the
eld and 2-of-3 from 3-point range
Ivy League Player of the Year in 2018 after averaging 16.0
points and 5.7 rebounds Four career double-doubles, last vs.
Cornell (24/12) at the Palestra in Philadelphia 3/10/18 Averaged
12.3 points as a true freshman with the Crimson
#32 E.J. LIDDELL, 6 7, 240, SO. F BELLEVILLE, ILL. BELLEVILLE
H.S.
Pronounced lih-DELL Returned vs. UCLA after missing two games
Terri c sophomore campaign so far with 14.3 points per game and 6.8
rebounds Career-high 26 points in win at No. 15 Illinois. Two-time
Illinois Mr. Basketball Has 22 career games with ve or more
rebounds; Buckeyes 18-4 in those contests Recorded rst
double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds against Illinois as a
freshman St. Louis Post-Dispatch metro area high school player of
the decade
#40 JANSEN DAVIDSON, 6 1, 190, JR. GKETTERING, OHIO FAIRMONT
H.S.
First-year member of the program
#42 HARRISON HOOKFIN, 6 6, 200, JR. FCINCINNATI LEBANON H.S.
ird-year member of the program Has played in 12 games for the
Buckeyes
Junior Justice Sueing reached 1,000 career points with six at
Minnesota. He scored 886 points in two
seasons at California and now has 150 as a Buck-eye this season.
ree other current Buckeyes could reach 1,000 this year as well.
Graduate transfer Seth Towns (Harvard), senior CJ Walker (Florida
State) and senior Jimmy Sotos (Bucknell) all started careers
elsewhere but could reach 1,000 points in Colum-bus.
Purdue leads the all-time series with Ohio State, 89-85. e
Buckeyes are 55-30 overall in Columbus vs. the Boilermakers. Ohio
State is 11-3 vs. Purdue while playing at Value City Arena
(1999-present). Purdue owns the edge in games played in West
Lafayette, Indiana, 58-27. When playing at Mackey Arena
(1968-present), Purdue is 29-15 all-time vs. the Buckeyes. When the
teams tip on a neutral court, Ohio State is 3-1, all in the Big Ten
Tournament. In series history, Ohio State has been ranked among the
Top 25 in the weekly Associated Press Poll 36 times with an overall
record of 28-8 in those games. Purdue has been ranked 48 times when
facing the Buckeyes. e Boilermakers are 22-16 in those games. e
teams have been ranked 10 times simultaneously when facing one
another. Ohio State is 7-3 in those games. Four Buckeye regulars
average just over seven points a game each vs. the Boilers: Musa
Jallow, Duane Washington Jr., CJ Walker and Kyle Young. Justice
Sueing tallied 14 points in the lone meeting earlier this
season.
e Buckeyes own an overall record of 842-742 against current
league members. Chris Holtmann faced six league opponents during
his six years as a head coach prior to taking over for the Buckeyes
in 2017-18. He entered his rst year of Big Ten com-petition with a
4-5 record vs. conference foes. He is 44-36 vs. conference
opponents in 10 years as a head coach.
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Ohio State celebrated 108 years as a member of the Big Ten
Conference in men’s basketball in 2020. e Buckeyes nished in the
No. 6 spot in the 1913 conference standings, the rst season of
league play. Over 108 seasons, Ohio State has earned 20 Big Ten
regular-season titles with 29 NCAA Tournament appearances, one
national championship (1960) and 10 trips to the Final Four. Ten
former coaches and players are members of the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame while 55 student-athletes have been drafted
by National Basketball Association teams, including 24 in the rst
round.
Ohio State has 30 seasons with 20 or more wins and three with 30
or more. Chris Holtmann has won at least 20 games in each of his
three years at Ohio State and the Buckeyes have won 20 or more
games in 15 of the last 16 seasons.
Holtmann teams have won 20 or more games in each of his last
seven full years as a head coach. e Buckeyes nished 21-10 in
2019-20. Ohio State nished 20-15 overall after the win vs. Iowa
State and
the loss to Houston in the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Gardner-Webb
won 21 games in 2013 with Holtmann at the helm. Butler reached 23,
22 and 25 wins over the three seasons before Holtmann took over at
Ohio State in 2017-18. Of Ohio State’s 14 head coaches in the
history of men’s basketball, only Gary Williams and ad Matta won 20
games in their rst season in Columbus. e Buckeyes were 25-9 in
2017-18. Williams was 20-13 in 1987 and took the Buckeyes to the
NCAA Tournament, where the team defeated Kentucky for its 20th win
of the season before losing to Georgetown. Matta was 20-12 in 2005
but the Buckeyes were ineligible for postseason competition that
year. Ohio State won its 20th game in the 2005 Big Ten Tournament
over Penn State before ending the season with a loss to Wisconsin.
Holtmann is the rst Ohio State coach in history to win 20
regular-season games in his rst year in Columbus. e 25 wins in
2017-18 is an Ohio State record for most wins by a rst-year coach.
He also joins Matta as the only Ohio
State head coaches to win 20 or more games in each of their rst
three seasons in Columbus.
e win over No. 19 Michigan March 1 gave the Buckeyes win No. 20
for the 2019-20 season. e feat marked the 30th time in Ohio State
men’s basketball history the Buckeyes reached 20 victories in a
season. e rst was in 1950 when William H.H. Dye led the Buckeyes to
a 22-4 record in his nal of four seasons on the Ohio State
sidelines. Fred Taylor was the next coach in Columbus to guide Ohio
State to the 20-win plateau with a 25-3 season in 1960, the year
the Buck-eyes reached and won the NCAA title game. Taylor led Ohio
State to six 20-win seasons in his career, including a streak of
four-consecutive from 1960-1963. Taylor’s last 20-win campaign was
in 1971. Eldon Miller led Ohio State to four 20-win campaigns from
1980-85 before Gary Williams coached two seasons with 20-13 records
in 1987 and 1988. Randy Ayers’ 1991 and 1992 seasons both ended
with 20 or more wins with 27 and 26
respectively. e ad Matta era (2005-2017) included 12-consecutive
20-win seasons from 2005-2016. Chris Holtmann has reached 20-plus
wins in each of his three seasons in Columbus to give the Buckeyes
a total of 30 in Ohio State history.
Jim Jackson, one of the all-time great players in Ohio State
men’s basketball history and current-ly the program’s seventh
all-time leading scorer, is among six former players and two
coaches who have been selected to the National Collegiate
Bas-ketball Hall of Fame Class of 2021. Jackson piled up 1,785
points in just three seasons at Ohio State, from 1989-92. Jackson
averaged 5.9 rebounds and four assists per game while shooting over
50 percent from the eld. He led Ohio State to Big Ten titles in
1991 and 1992 and was a two-time All-American and Big Ten Player of
the Year. In February of 2001, his No. 22 was retired.
June 9, 2017 marked the rst day of the Chris Holtmann era at
Ohio State. After six seasons as a head coach, including three at
Butler, Holtmann became the 14th head coach in Ohio State men’s
basketball history. In his career to date, Holtmann already has
earned coach-of-the-year honors in the Big South Conference (2013),
where he spent three seasons coaching Gardner-Webb (2001-13), and
in the Big East (2017) in the nal of three seasons with the
Bulldogs. His rst game in Columbus, a win over Robert Morris, was
the 200th of his head coaching career. Holtmann was named the 2018
Big Ten Coach of the Year, has won at least 20 games in each of his
three seasons in Columbus, has taken the Buckeyes to back-to-back
NCAA Tournament appearances and has won an NCAA game each
season.
In 10 seasons as a head coach, three at Gardner Webb (2011-13),
three at Butler (2015-17) and now in Year Four at Ohio State, Chris
Holtmann is 26-32 overall against opponents ranked among the
Associated Press Top 25. He was 0-2 at Gardner-Webb and 13-13 at
Butler. His teams were 6-9 vs. Top 10 foes at Butler and 3-4 vs.
Top 5 opponents. He is 13-18 at Ohio State.
e Buckeyes have an all-time record of 177-277 (3-1 in 2020-21)
vs. ranked opponents in the Asso-ciated Press Top 25. at includes a
mark of 75-135 vs. Top 10 foes. As a ranked team, Ohio State is
537-163 all-time. In games when both teams enter
with a Top 25 ranking, Ohio State is 85-82. When ranked among
the Top 10 nationally, Ohio State is 344-80.
• e Buckeyes are 40-70 vs. Top 5 opponents all-time. e Buckeyes
knocked off No. 1 Michigan State 80-64 in Columbus and No. 3 Purdue
64-63 in West
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Lafayette in 2018. Ohio State’s last non-conference game vs. a
Top 5 opponent was in New Orleans vs. No. 5 North Carolina in the
CBSSports Classic (L, 86-72, 12/23/17). Ohio State’s last win vs. a
non-conference Top 5 opponent was 74-67 in the CBS event over No. 4
Kentucky in Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 19, 2015. Ohio State was
unranked vs. Michigan State, the Tar Heels and Wildcats. Against
the nation’s No. 1 team, Ohio State is 9-11 all-time, including a
6-5 record in Columbus. At Value City Arena, Ohio State is 35-27
vs. ranked opponents, 30-22 vs. ranked Big Ten foes, 6-3 vs. Top 5
teams and 3-2 against No. 1 ranked competition.
• Ohio State improved its record to 238-79 versus teams from
Ohio following the 67-61 win over Cleveland State Dec. 13 at VCA. •
Chris Holtmann has a 12-5 career record versus teams from Ohio.•
Ohio State is 30-1 vs. Ohio teams since the 1997-98 season. e loss
was to Dayton in the 2014 NCAA Tournament. e Buckeyes fell 60-59
(3/20/2014) to the No. 22 Flyers. • Ohio State is 180-30 in
Columbus vs. Ohio teams, 50-41 in road games and 8-8 at neutral
sites all-time.
Kyle Young, a senior on the 2020-21 Ohio State men’s basketball
team, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sport industry Aug. 9.
He began a gradu-ate program in sport management this fall. Young,
an academic All-Big Ten winner in both 2019 and 2020, was an Ohio
State Scholar Athlete in 2020 and was named to the 2019-20 National
Associa-tion of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court for academic
excellence. Trevor ompson, who lettered from 2016-17, also
completed Ohio State’s Degree Completion Program with a degree in
sport industry last summer.
Aaron Craft, who starred for the Buckeyes from 2011-14, is back
on campus. Craft ended his profes-sional basketball career earlier
this summer to focus attention on the next chapter of his life —
attending medical school at Ohio State. Achieving steady and
consistent success academically led to numerous accolades during
his undergraduate career. He is a three-time rst-team Academic
All-American and was the Academic All-American of the Year in men’s
basketball, twice (2013 and 2014).
Kyle Young and Musa Jallow were selected as mem-bers of the
2019-20 NABC Honors Court, recog-nizing more than 1,350 men’s
collegiate basketball student-athletes who excelled in academics
during the past season. In order to be named to the Hon-ors Court,
a student-athlete must meet a high stan-dard of academic criteria.
e quali cations are as follows:1. Academically a junior or senior
and a varsity player.
2. Cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.2 or higher at the
conclusion of the 2019-20 academic year.3. Students must have
matriculated at least one year at their current institution.4.
Member of a NCAA Division I, II, III, or NAIA Division I or II
institution with a NABC member coach.
Danny Hummer, a graduate student at guard with the Ohio State
men’s basketball team in 2019-20, was named a 2020 Big Ten
Distinguished Scholar, the conference offi ce announced July 1. To
be eli-gible for the honor, Big Ten student-athletes must have a
grade-point average of 3.7 or higher the pre-vious academic year.
Hummer, who also earned Ac-ademic All-Big Ten honors in both 2019
and 2020, claimed Ohio State’s 2020 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award and
was an OSU Scholar Athlete (2020), is working on a postgraduate
degree in kinesiology. He remains a part of the Ohio State program
as a graduate manager.
Quadrian Banks, strength and conditioning coach for the Ohio
State men’s basketball team, was named Master Strength and
Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning
Coaches Association (CSCCa), the organization announced May 13. is
honor is the highest giv-en in the strength and conditioning
coaching pro-fession, and the ceremony is the highlight of the
association’s National Conference each year. Mas-ter Strength and
Conditioning Coach Jeff Madden will present Coach Banks with the
blue MSCC Jacket, May 6, 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas, at the 2021
CSCCa National Conference because the 2020 CSCCa National
Conference was canceled as a result of COVID-19.
Four members of the Ohio State men’s basketball program were
named Academic-All-Big Ten by the conference offi ce May 11, 2020.
e same four earned OSU Scholar-Athlete honors for the 2019-20
academic year, the Ohio State Department of Athletics announced May
13. e group was part of 647 Ohio State student-athletes recognized
with the honor. To receive the distinction, student-ath-letes must
carry a 3.0 or better grade-point average. Kyle Young (Sport
Industry) and Musa Jallow (Ex-ercise Science Education) along with
graduate stu-dent Danny Hummer (Kinesiology) and Harrison Hook n
(Biology) made the list.
Freshmen Eugene Brown III, Zed Key and most re-cently Meechie
Johnson joined the returning mem-bers of the Ohio State men’s
basketball team over the summer and in Johnson Jr’s case last
December to begin workouts in preparation of the 2020-21 season.
Brown, a 6-6 wing/guard from Southwest DeKalb (Georgia) High
School, averaged 17 points
and nine rebounds as a senior. He nished his high school career
with 1,120 points, 584 rebounds, 149 steals, 139 assists and 138
blocks while play-ing for his father, Eugene Brown Jr. Key, a 6-8
for-ward from Long Island (New York) Lutheran High School, was both
the team’s leading scorer and re-bounder with 18 points and 8.7
rebounds per game. He also blocked 2.0 shots a contest. From the
eld he made 178-261 (68%) and made 71% at the foul line (178-261).
As a freshman at Gar eld Heights HS, Johnson Jr. scored 50 points
in his third high school game of his career against Benedictine
High School, making eight 3-pointers while going 10-12 from the
foul line. He averaged 23.0 points a game as a sophomore before a
season-ending injury that also cost him his junior campaign.
Abel Porter, a 6-3 guard from Farmington, Utah, Jimmy Sotos, a
6-3 guard from Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and Seth Towns, a 6-7
forward from Co-lumbus, Ohio, transfered to Ohio State over the
summer of 2020 to complete their collegiate careers with Chris
Holtmann, head coach of the Buckeyes, and the Ohio State men’s
basketball program. e trio join Justice Sueing, a 6-6 forward from
Ho-nolulu, Hawai’i, who joined the Buckeyes prior to the start of
the 2019-20 season after two years at California. Sueing sat out
last year at in Columbus and is eligible this season. Towns earned
a sociology degree from Harvard after playing for two years (2017,
2018) and sitting out the last two years (2019, 2020) while
recover-ing from knee injuries. He will have two years of
eligibility at Ohio State beginning with the 2020-21 season.
Porter, who played recently at Utah State, had his career cut short
because of a heart condition, discovered at by Ohio State medical
personnel last summer. Sotos, who elected to transfer following his
junior season at Bucknell, was originally go-ing to sit out this
season to satisfy NCAA transfer rules but was granted immediate
eligibility by the NCAA just prior to the start of the season.
Sotos was the starting point guard for the Bison last year in all
34 games (14-20). He led the team in scoring (11.5 ppg.) and
assists (3.9 apg.). As a sophomore with the Crimson, Towns earned
Associated Press honorable mention All-America honors after being
named the Ivy League Player of the Year. He averaged 16 points and
5.7 rebounds while making 44 percent from 3-point range (63-143).
Sueing averaged a team-high 14.3 points and 6.0 rebounds as a
sophomore with the Cal Bears. He has two years of eligibility with
the Buckeyes.
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HEAD COACH CHRIS HOLTMANNChris Holtmann begins his fourth season
at the
helm of the Buckeyes in 2020-21. His three seasons at Ohio State
have followed the blueprint estab-lished during his tenures at both
Gardner-Webb and Butler -- Success.
He was named the 2018 Big Ten Coach of the Year after leading
the Buckeyes to a 25-9 overall record, a No. 2 fi nish in the Big
Ten regular-season stand-ings (15-3) and a Second Round appearance
in the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
In Year Two with Ohio State, Holtmann took a de-pleted roster,
which was without the 2018 Big Ten Player of the Year (Keita
Bates-Diop), a four-year starter (Jae’Sean Tate), a fi fth-year
senior contribu-tor (Kam Williams) and a graduate transfer (Andrew
Dakich) and led a youthful squad to another Second Round appearance
in the 2019 NCAA Tournament. The Buckeyes won 20 games in 2018-19
(20-15), marking the sixth-consecutive season Holtmann teams have
won 20 or more games.
Year Three was cut short with the cancellation of the 2020 Big
Ten and NCAA Tournaments. The Buck-eyes had built an impressive
resume and was po-sitioned for another NCAA Tournament appearance
with an overall record of 21-10, which included wins over four
conference champions (Cincinnati, Villa-nova, Kentucky and
Maryland), four wins vs. Top 10 opponents (Villanova, at North
Carolina, Kentucky and Maryland).
The 2019-20 Buckeyes fi nished tied for fi fth in the Big Ten at
11-9, winning nine of the fi nal 12 league games, tied for the top
fi nish in conference regu-lar-season play. Ohio State
climbed to as high as No. 2 in the polls after an 11-1 start that
included wins over No. 10 Villanova, No. 6 North Carolina in Chapel
Hill and No. 6 Kentucky in Las Vegas.
Holtmann become just the second Ohio State coach to win 20 or
more games in each of his fi rst three seasons in Columbus joining
Thad Matta (12 from 2005-2016). Holtmann is the second Ohio State
coach to take teams to the NCAA Tournament in his fi rst two years:
Randy Ayers (3, 1990-92). Matta’s 2005 team, his fi rst in
Columbus, was not eligible for postseason competition. The next two
played in the NCAA (2006, 2007) before an NIT appearance in
2008.
In the fi rst three years as an Ohio State coach, Holtmann’s 66
combined wins (2018/25, 2019/20, 2020/21) are the third most behind
Matta’s 81 vic-tories (in 2005/20, 2006/26, 2007/35) and Ayers’ 70
(1990/17, 1991/27, 1992, 26) in Ohio State history.
Holtmann teams have won an opening-round game in the NCAA
Tournament in each of the last fi ve years in which the NCAA
Tournament was contested, a feat accomplished by a select group of
Division I coaches.
• Full Name: Christopher Holtmann• Born: Nov. 11, 1971•
Hometown: Nicholasville, Kentucky• High School: Jessamine County
HS• Alma Mater: Taylor, 1994 (Psychology); Ball State, 2000
(Masters/Athletic Administration)
• Playing Career: Lettered from 1991-94 at Taylor (Ind.)
University. As a senior, earned All-America honors while leading
Taylor to a No. 1 ranking in the NAIA rankings.
• Coaching Career: Taylor (GA), 1997; Geneva (asst.), 1998-99;
Taylor (asst.), 1999-2003; Gardner-Webb (asst.), 2003-08; Ohio
(asst.), 2008-10; Gardner-Webb (head coach), 2010-13; Butler
(asst.), 2013-14; Butler (head coach), 2014-17; Ohio State (head
coach), 2017 to present.
• Assisted Under: Paul Patterson (Taylor); Jeff Santarsiero
(Geneva); Rick Scruggs (Gardner-Webb); John Groce (Ohio); Brandon
Miller (Butler).
• Highlights: Big Ten Coach of the Year (2018), Big South Coach
of the Year (2013), Big East Coach of the Year (2017);
Collegeinsider.com John McLendon National Coach of the Year (2017);
NAIA All-American (1994).
HOLTMANN QUICK FACTS
ismith COY Award, not only earned awards in 2017-18, he coached
award winners as well.
Bates-Diop, who suff ered a season-ending leg inju-ry early in
the 2016-17 season, returned to the Ohio State roster as a redshirt
junior in 2017-18 to be-come the 2018 Big Ten Player of the Year
while also earning Second Team All-America honors (Sporting News,
USBWA). He helped the Buckeyes to the most wins (25) under a fi
rst-year head coach in Ohio State history. Bates-Diop also was a
2018 First Team All-Big Ten selection while teammate Tate was named
Second Team All-Big Ten. Kaleb Wesson earned a spot on the 2018 Big
Ten All-Freshman Team and was an honorable mention All-Big Ten
selection in 2019.
As a team, the Buckeyes returned to the national rankings prior
to a road game at Northwestern in which Ohio State, ranked No. 20
in the weekly As-sociated Press poll, downed the
Wildcats 71-65 Jan. 17, 2018. Ohio State remained in the poll the
remainder of the season, reaching as high as the No. 8 spot before
ending the season at No. 17.
In three seasons at Butler, Holtmann compiled a record of 70-31
as a member of the BIG EAST conference. In eight years as a head
coach, which includes three years at Gardner-Webb (44-54) and two
in Columbus (45-24), his ca-reer record is 159-109. His teams have
won at least 20 games in each of the last six seasons.
Chris Holtmann at a Glance• Enters fourth season as Ohio State
Head Coach
(66-34 Record; 2017 to present)• Three seasons as Butler Head
Coach (70-31 Re-
cord; 2015-17)• Nine seasons as a head coach (180-119 Record)•
2017-18 Big Ten Coach of the Year• 2017-18 Naismith National Coach
of the Year
Finalist• 2018 USBWA District V Coach of the Year• 2016-17 BIG
EAST Coach of the Year• 2016-17 John McLendon Award Winner
(col-
legeinsiders.com)• 2016-17 and 2014-15 Jim Phelan National
Coach
of the Year Finalist• 2014-15 Naismith National Coach of the
Year
Finalist• Three Seasons as Gardner-Webb Head Coach
(44-54 Record; 2011-13)• 2013 Big South Conference Coach of the
Year
The 2018 Big Ten Coach of the Year award was the second COY
honor in as many seasons, and third overall for Holtmann, who
earned Big East COY in 2017. The Big East award culminated three
seasons as head coach at Butler University.
Holtmann became the 14th head coach in Ohio State history when
he was named to the position June 9, 2017.
The Buckeyes exceeded any and all expectations in Holtmann’s fi
rst season in Columbus. Picked to fi nish no better than 11th in
preseason media polls, the Buckeyes stormed out to a 9-0 record in
Big Ten Conference play, the best start to a league season by a fi
rst-year Big Ten coach in 95 years.
Highlighting the 2018-19 season were home wins over
Michigan, overcoming a fi rst-half 20-point defi cit, and No. 1
Michigan State along with a road victory at No. 3
Purdue, the Boilermakers’ only home loss of the season.
Holtmann, the USBWA District V Coach of the Year and a fi nalist
for the 2018 Na-
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HEAD COACH CHRIS HOLTMANNHOLTMANN’S CAREER RECORD BY YEARAS AN
ASSISTANT
Year School Record Conference Postseason
1998-99 Geneva 11-20
1999-2000 Taylor 19-14 6-8
2000-01 Taylor 17-16 7-7
2001-02 Taylor 25-7 11-3
2002-03 Taylor 25-9 10-4 NAIA First Round
2003-04 Gardner-Webb 9-20 6-14
2004-05 Gardner-Webb 18-12 13-7
2005-06 Gardner-Webb 9-20 6-14
2006-07 Gardner-Webb 9-21 7-11
2007-08 Gardner-Webb 16-16 9-7
2008-09 Ohio University 15-17 7-9
2009-10 Ohio University 22-15 7-9
2013-14 Butler 14-17 4-14
AS A HEAD COACH
Year School Record Conf/Place Postseason
2010-11 Gardner-Webb 11-21 6-12/9th
2012-12 Gardner-Webb 12-20 6-12/9th
2013-13 Gardner-Webb 21-13 11-5/2nd (South) CIT First Round
3-Year Gardner-Webb Record 44-54 23-29
2014-15 Butler 23-11 12-6/3rd NCAA Third Round
2015-16 Butler 22-11 10-8/4th NCAA Third Round
2016-17 Butler 25-9 12-6/2nd NCAA Sweet 16
3-Year Butler Record 70-31 34-20
2017-18 Ohio State 25-9 15-3/2nd NCAA Second Round
2018-19 Ohio State 20-15 8-12/8th NCAA Second Round
2019-20 Ohio State 21-10 11-9/5th Postseason Cancelled
2020-21 Ohio State 11-3 5-3
Fourth Year at Ohio State 77-37 39-27
10-Year Collegiate Record 191-122 (.610) 5 NCAA/1 CIT
Butler advanced to the NCAA Tournament in all three seasons with
Holtmann as the head coach. He was the 2016-17 BIG EAST Coach of
the Year, the 2013 Big South Conference Coach of the Year and a
Na-ismith National Coach of the Year Finalist in 2014-15.
In 2016-17, Butler advanced to the NCAA “Sweet 16” for the fi
rst time since 2011, tallying a 14-5 reg-ular-season record against
12 teams that made the 2017 NCAA Tournament fi eld. Wins over
Arizo-na, Cincinnati, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Vermont, and
Bucknell, in addition to a pair of wins over Villanova, helped the
Bulldogs to a second-place fi nish in the BIG EAST and a No. 4 seed
in the NCAA Tournament. Butler’s win over Villanova at Hinkle
Fieldhouse Jan. 4, 2017 was the second win over a No. 1-ranked team
in Butler history.
Holtmann, one of only two coaches in Butler his-tory to lead the
Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament in each of his fi rst three seasons
-- Brad Stevens is the other -- garnered BIG EAST Coach of the Year
honors in 2017, in addition to being named a fi nal-ist for the Jim
Phelan National Coach of the Year Award. Under Holtmann’s tutelage,
Andrew Chra-bascz was named fi rst team All-BIG EAST, while Ke-lan
Martin was selected to the All-BIG EAST second team and Kamar
Baldwin was voted on to the BIG EAST’s fi ve-member All-Freshman
Team in 2016-17.
In 2015-16, Butler ranked in the Top 25 nationally, scoring 79.9
points per game, and ascended to as high as ninth in the AP poll
after opening the sea-son win an 11-1 non-conference record. The
2014-15 campaign, Holtmann’s fi rst leading the Butler pro-gram,
saw the Bulldogs post a 23-11 record, fi nish in a tie for second
place in the BIG EAST and win at least one game in the NCAA
Tournament for the fi rst of three-consecutive seasons. The
Bull-dogs’ success in his initial season as head coach earned
Holtmann a spot as a fi nalist for both the Naismith National Coach
of the Year Award and the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year
Award.
Holtmann spent the 2013-14 season as an assistant coach for the
Bulldogs before being named inter-im head coach in October 2014 and
then being elevated to head coach at Butler in January 2015.
Prior to his time at Butler, Holtmann was head coach at
Gardner-Webb for three seasons from 2010-13, leading the Runnin’
Bulldogs to a school Division I record 21 victories in his fi nal
season after taking over a program that won just eight games in
2009-10. In his last season at Gard-ner-Webb, Holtmann garnered Big
South Confer-ence and NABC District 3 Coach of the Year
laurels.
Before becoming head coach at Gardner-Webb, Holtmann served two
seasons as an assis-tant coach at Ohio University under former Ohio
State assistant coach John Groce, and
spent fi ve seasons, including four as associ-ate head coach, on
the staff at Gardner-Webb
Holtmann, from Nicholasville, Ky., was an NAIA All-American
guard at Taylor University, helping guide the Trojans to a 25-9
record, a No. 1 na-tional ranking and a berth in the NAIA National
Tournament in 1993-94. After his playing days, Holtmann spent the
1997-98 season as a gradu-ate assistant at Taylor and the 1998-99
season as an assistant at Geneva College before returning to Taylor
as an assistant coach under Paul Patter-son from 1999-2003. In his
last two seasons as an assistant at his alma mater, Holtmann helped
lead the Trojans to a 50-16 record, back-to-back confer-ence titles
and a ranking in the Top 15 nationally.
Holtmann earned his bachelor’s degree in psychol-ogy from Taylor
in 1994 and a master’s degree in athletic administration from Ball
State in 2000. He and his wife, Lori, have one daughter, Nora
Jane.
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HOLTMANN VS. ALL OPPONENTS
Nebraska ................................5 0Norfolk State
.................................1 0North Carolina
.............................. 2 3North Carolina Asheville
.............. 2 4Northern Colorado ........................1
0Northeastern .................................1 0Northwestern
.........................6 2Notre Dame
............................1 1Oklahoma
.....................................0 2Penn State
..............................2 4Presbyterian
.................................2 3Providence
................................... 2 5Purdue
...................................3 3Purdue Fort Wayne
...................... 2
0Radford......................................... 4 2Robert Morris
................................1 0Rutgers
..................................6 1Samford
.........................................1 0Savannah State
............................0 1Seton Hall
.....................................5 1South Carolina State
....................2 1South Dakota State .......................1
0Southeast Missouri .......................1 0Southern Ill.
Edwardsville .............1 0Southern Utah
...............................1 0Spalding
........................................1 0St. John’s
...................................... 5 1Stanford
.........................................1 0Stetson
..........................................1 0Syracuse
.......................................0 1Temple
...........................................1 0Tennessee
.....................................1 1
Opponent .............................. W LAkron
............................................ 0 0Alabama
A&M............................... 0 0Alice Lloyd College
.......................1 0Appalachian State
.........................1 0Arizona
..........................................1 0Arizona State
................................0 1Austin Peay
...................................1 0Belmont
.........................................1 0Bucknell
.......................................2 0Butler
............................................ 0 2Campbell
......................................2 2Central Arkansas
...........................1 0Charleston
.................................... 2 0Charleston Southern
.................... 4 2Chattanooga
................................ 2 0Cincinnati
..................................... 4 0Citadel
.......................................... 3 0Clemson
....................................... 0 2Cleveland State
......................2 0Coastal
Carolina........................... 3 4Covenant
.......................................1 0Creighton
..................................... 4 3Delaware State
.............................1 0DePaul
.......................................... 7 0East Carolina
................................0 2Eastern Kentucky
......................... 0 1Elon
..............................................0 1Florida State
................................. 0 1Georgetown
................................. 4 3Gonzaga
....................................... 0 2High Point
..................................... 3 4Houston
........................................ 0 1
Howard ..........................................1 0Illinois
....................................4 2Illinois State
........................... 1 0Indiana
...................................6 3Indiana State
................................ 2 1IUPUI
.............................................1 0Iowa
.......................................3 3Iowa State
.....................................1 0Kennesaw State
............................1 0Kent State
......................................1 0Kentucky
.......................................1 0Lees-McRae
..................................1 0Liberty
...........................................1 4Lipscomb
.......................................1 1Longwood
.....................................1 0Louisville
......................................0 1Loyola
Maryland............................1 0Maine
............................................1 0Marquette
.................................... 5 1Maryland
................................2 3Mary Washington
..........................1 0Massachusettes Lowell...........2
0Mercer ...........................................1 0Miami,
Florida .............................. 0 1Miami, Ohio
...................................1 0Michigan
................................3 3Michigan State
....................... 1 4Middle Tennessee
.........................1 0Minnesota
..............................2 3Missouri State
...............................1 0Morehead State
...................... 1 0Morgan State
................................1 0
HEAD COACH CHRIS HOLTMANN
Tennessee Martin .........................1 0Tennessee Tech
............................1 1Texas
.............................................1 0Texas Southern
.............................1 0Texas Tech
.....................................1 0UCLA
......................................2 0Utah
...............................................1 0Vanderbilt
......................................1 0Vermont
.........................................1 0Villanova
....................................... 3 4Virginia
.........................................0 1Virginia Intermount
.......................1 0Virginia-Wise Highland .................1
0VMI ............................................... 3 3Wake Forest
.................................0 1West Virginia
................................0 1Western Carolina
..........................1 0William and Mary
..........................1 1Winthrop
....................................... 3 4Wisconsin
...............................1 3Woff ord
.........................................0 1Xavier
........................................... 3 5Youngstown State
.........................1 0Totals (.610)
.......................... 191 122
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SERIES INFORMATION WITH PURDUESeries
............................................. Purdue leads
89-85Games at Ohio State................Ohio State leads 55-30
Games at Value City Arena .... Ohio State leads 11-3Games at Purdue
.......................... Purdue leads 58-27 Games at Mackey Arena
.......... Purdue leads 29-15Neutral Site
Games.......................Ohio State leads 3-1Big Ten Tournament
Games ........ Ohio State leads 3-1Last Ohio State Win
............68-52 (2/15/20, Columbus)Last Purdue Win .........
67-60 (12/16/20, West Lafayette)Longest Ohio State win streak 8,
twice (last 2003-07)Longest OSU home win streak ..8, twice (last
1961-69)Longest OSU away win streak ..................4
(1950-54)Longest Purdue win streak ....... 9, twice (last
1994-98)Longest PU home win streak ................... 12
(1917-32)Longest PU away win streak .... 4, twice (last
1994-98)Current Series Streak
.................................Purdue W-1Ranked OSU teams vs.
Purdue ...........................28-8OSU vs. ranked Purdue teams
...........................16-22OSU record when both teams are
ranked ............ 7-3 WHEN OSU SCORES.... OSU Record OSU Record W
L Pct. W L Pct.100+ 2 0 1.000
90-99 10 0 1.000 90+ 12 0 1.000
80-89 13 7 0.650 80+ 25 7 0.781
70-79 25 13 0.658 70+ 50 20 0.714
60-69 19 25 0.432 60+ 69 45 0.605
50-59 7 11 0.389 50+ 76 56 0.576
40-49 3 2 0.600 40+ 79 58 0.577
39 or fewer 12 31 0.279
Total (180) 91 89 0.506
PURDUE SERIES SCORING ANALYSISPoints (Gms.) OSU PU Margin OSU
Rcd.All Games (180) 10,891 11,021 -130 91-89Avg. 60.5 61.2 -0.7 OSU
Wins (91) 6,242 5,347 895 Avg. 68.6 58.8 9.8 OSU Losses (89) 4,649
5,674 -1,025 Avg. 52.2 63.8 -11.5 In Columbus (88) 5,543 5,096 447
58-30Avg. 63.0 57.9 5.1 Home Wins (58) 3,989 3,363 626 Avg. 68.8
58.0 10.8 Home Losses (30) 1,554 1,733 -179 Avg. 51.8 57.8 -6.0 In
W. Lafayette (88) 5,073 5,676 -603 30-58Avg. 57.6 64.5 -6.9 Away
Wins (30) 2,039 1,800 239 Avg. 68.0 60.0 8.0 Away Losses (58) 3,034
3,876 -842 Avg. 52.3 66.8 -14.5
3/4/08 W Purdue .........................................
80-77(15)2/3/09 W Purdue .........................................
82-70(12)2/28/09 L @Purdue
......................................50-75(16)3/15/09 L vs. Purdue
....................................61-65(24)1/12/10 W @Purdue
....................................... 70-66(6)2/17/10 L Purdue
...................................... 57(9)-60(4)1/25/11 W Purdue
...................................... 87(1)-64(12)2/20/11 L
@Purdue ...................................63(2)-76(11)1/21/16 L
@Purdue ..................................... 64-75(22)2/7/18 W
@Purdue .................................. 64(14)-63(3)3/2/19 L
@Purdue .......................................51-86(14)
RANKED OSU TEAMS VS. PURDUEDate W/L Site
................................OSU(#)-PU(#)1/30/50 W @Purdue
......................................59(13)-521/21/56 L @Purdue
.......................................69(11)-701/23/60 W @Purdue
........................................ 85(5)-711/28/61 W Purdue
..................................... 92(1)-62(10)1/22/62 W Purdue
............................................91(1)-651/29/62 W
@Purdue .........................................94(1)-733/2/63 W
Purdue .......................................... 95(5)-752/1/69 L
@Purdue (ot) ...........................85(12)-95(14)2/11/69 W
Purdue .....................................88(16)-85(8)1/8/72 W
@Purdue ...................................... 78(10)-702/12/72 W
Purdue ...........................................64(7)-621/5/80 W
Purdue ...................................... 67(5)-58(8)2/28/80 W
@Purdue ..................................64(9)-60(18)1/13/83 L
@Purdue ..................................... 57(20)-643/5/83 W
Purdue ...................................76(14)-65(20)2/6/89 W
Purdue ......................................... 70(15)-582/3/91 W
Purdue .......................................... 66(3)-593/6/91 L
@Purdue ........................................67(2)-722/8/92 W
Purdue ........................................... 71(8)-592/26/92
W @Purdue .........................................71(8)-641/11/06
W @Purdue ......................................80(19)-643/5/06 W
Purdue ...........................................76(9)-571/31/07 W
@Purdue ........................................78(4)-602/10/07 W
Purdue .......................................... 63(3)-563/9/07 W
vs. Purdue ..................................... 63(1)-522/17/10 L
Purdue ...................................... 57(9)-60(4)1/25/11 W
Purdue ...................................... 87(1)-64(12)2/20/11 L
@Purdue ...................................63(2)-76(11)2/7/12 W
Purdue ...........................................87(3)-843/9/12 W
vs. Purdue .......................................88(7)-711/8/13 W
@Purdue ...................................... 74(15)-6412/31/13 W
@Purdue ........................................78(3)-693/13/14 W
vs. Purdue .................................... 63(24)-612/4/15 L
@Purdue .....................................58(20)-602/7/18 W
@Purdue .................................. 64(14)-63(3)12/16/20 L
@Purdue .....................................60(20)-67(#) indicates
AP ranking
2020-21 Ohio State Roster vs. PurdueNo. Player Gms. Mins. Avg.
FG FGA FG% 3FG FGA 3FG% FT FTA FT% Pts. Avg. Rebs. Avg.1 Jimmy
Sotos 1 7 7.0 1 1 1.000 0 0 0.000 1 1 1.000 3 3.0 0 0.02 Musa
Jallow 4 81 20.3 11 19 0.579 5 12 0.417 2 6 0.333 29 7.3 11 2.83
Eugene Brown III 1 6 6.0 1 2 0.500 1 2 0.500 0 0 0.000 3 3.0 1 1.04
D. Washington Jr. 4 79 19.8 3 15 0.200 4 5 0.800 4 5 0.800 31 7.8
12 3.014 Justice Sueing 1 32 32.0 5 11 0.455 2 5 0.400 2 4 0.500 14
14.0 5 5.010 Justin Ahrens 4 63 15.8 4 12 0.333 4 12 0.333 0 0
0.000 12 3.0 12 3.013 CJ Walker 2 65 32.5 5 13 0.385 1 3 0.333 4 6
0.667 15 7.5 6 3.023 Zed Key 1 22 22.0 2 6 0.333 0 0 0.000 1 2
0.500 5 5.0 3 3.025 Kyle Young 4 78 19.5 11 19 0.579 0 4 0.000 8 12
0.000 30 7.5 23 5.832 E.J. Liddell 1 11 11.0 0 3 0.000 0 0 0.000 1
2 0.500 1 1.0 0 0.0
GENERAL INFORMATIONLocation (Enrollment) ............. West
Lafayette, Ind. (41,573)Colors
.......................................................Old Gold and
BlackConference
.................................................................
Big
TenNickname..........................................................
Boilermakers Arena (capacity) ...............................Mackey
Arena (14,804)Athletics
Director............................................ Mike
Bobinski
BASKETBALL INFORMATIONHead Coach
........................................................ Matt
PainterAlma Mater
........................................................Purdue,
1994Record at Purdue (Yrs.) ........................... 337-174 (15
years)Career Record (Yrs.) .................................362-179
(16 years)
SPORTS INFORMATIONBasketball SID
................................................. Chris FormanOffi
ce Phone ...................................................
765-494-3201SID E-mail ...........................................
[email protected] Row Phone
...........................................765-494-6365Website
.....................................................
purduesports.comCredentials .......................
www.sportssystems.com/purdue
OSU VS. RANKED PURDUE TEAMSDate W/L Site
................................OSU(#)-PU(#)1/28/61 W Purdue
................................... 92 (1)-62 (10)2/1/69 L @Purdue
(ot) .........................85 (12)-95 (14)2/11/69 W Purdue
..................................88 (16)-85 (8)1/27/75 W Purdue
....................................... 93-87 (20)3/3/79 L @Purdue
..................................... 66-74 (19)1/5/80 W Purdue
.................................... 67 (5)-58 (8)2/28/80 W @Purdue
................................64 (9)-60 (18)3/5/83 W Purdue
.................................76 (14)-65 (20)3/3/84 L @Purdue
......................................63-85 (11)1/25/86 W Purdue
........................................ 73-66 (15)1/29/87 L Purdue
.......................................... 73-75 (4)2/28/87 L
@Purdue .......................................73-87 (6)1/7/88 L
@Purdue ......................................77-84 (10)3/9/88 W
Purdue .......................................... 71-60 (2)1/25/90
L Purdue ........................................ 66-78 (13)2/24/90
L @Purdue .......................................70-75 (9)2/3/93 L
Purdue ........................................ 57-62 (19)3/14/93 W
@Purdue ..................................... 72-62 (18)1/22/94 L
@Purdue ................................... 63-101 (12)2/23/94 L
Purdue ........................................ 85-95 (14)2/22/95 L
Purdue ........................................55-64 (21)1/27/96 L
@Purdue ..................................... 53-70 (19)2/15/96 L
Purdue .........................................55-63 (11)1/21/98 L
@Purdue ...................................... 71-82 (12)2/7/98 L
Purdue .......................................75-107 (10)2/22/03 W
Purdue ....................................... 52-44 (24)1/31/04 W
@Purdue .....................................65-59 (21)
OHIO STATE VS. PURDUEDec. 16, 2020 // Mackey Arena (14,804) //
West Lafayette, Indiana // BTN, L 67-60
7 p.m., Jan. 27, 2021 // Value City Arena (18,809) // Columbus,
Ohio // BTN
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Ohio State Team vs. Purdue OSU W/L ScoreFG 46 (79) Purdue
(1/6/68) W 108-80FGA 92 (39) Purdue (1/25/64) W 98-87FG % 65.2
(30-46) Purdue (1/25/86) W 73-663 FG 13 (23) Purdue (2/23/02) W
77-663 FGA 24 (6) @ Purdue (1/12/08) L 75-683 FG % 57.9 (11-19)
Purdue (2/23/02) W 77-66FT 30 (39) Purdue (2/19/73) W 102-79FTA 42
(26 Purdue (1/27/58) W 75-73FT % 92.9 (13-14) @ Purdue (3/3/84) L
85-63OR 22 @ Purdue (3/6/91) L 72-67DR 32 vs. Purdue (3/9/12) W
88-71Rebs. 64 Purdue (1/25/64) W 98-87PF 35 @ Purdue (1/10/81) L
73-65Pts. 108 Purdue (1/6/68) W 108-80Assists 22 @ Purdue (2/5/97)
L 94-77Steals 15 @ Purdue (1/21/98) L 82-71Blocks 9 @ Purdue
(1/8/13) W 74-64 Ohio State Individual vs. Purdue FG 20 (30) Gary
Bradds (1/25/64) W 98-87FGA 32 (14) Robin Freeman (1/9/54) W 91-743
FG 6 (11) Jamar Butler (1/22/08) L 75-683 FGA 11 (6) Jamar Butler
(1/22/08) L 75-68FT 12 (15) Allan Hornyak (1/8/72) W 78-70FTA 16
(10) Brad Sellers (2/20/86) L 85-79OR 9 Greg Oden (3/9/07) W
63-52DR 10 Greg Oden (3/9/07) W 63-52Rebs. 25 Jerry Lucas (1/22/62)
W 91-65Pts. 47 Gary Bradds (1/25/64) W 98-87Assists 14 Curtis
Wilson (1/7/88) L 84-77Blocks 7 Ken Johnson (1/29/00) W 68-59Steals
6 Aaron Craft (2/20/11) W 80-64
Purdue Team vs. Ohio State OSU W/L Score FG 42 (80) @ Purdue
(2/14/76) L 98-73FGA 97 (30) Purdue (1/9/54) W 91-74FG % 64.0
(38-59) @ Purdue (2/2/63) W 97-93 3 FG 16 (26) Purdue (2/7/98) L
107-753 FGA 26 (12) vs. Purdue (3/9/12) W 88-713 FG % 61.5 (16-26)
Purdue (2/07/98) L 107-75FT 32 (38) @ Purdue (2/28/87) L 87-73FTA
48 (31) @ Purdue (1/10/81) L 73-65FT % 91.0 (20-22) @ Purdue
(3/7/66) L 92-86OR 22 @ Purdue (3/6/91) L 72-67DR 30 Purdue
(1/5/17) L 76-75Rebs. 68 @ Purdue (1/24/59) L 86-69PF 30 Purdue
(2/19/73) W 102-79Pts. 107 Purdue (2/7/98) L 107-75Assists 28 @
Purdue (1/12/08) L 75-68Blocks 10 @ Purdue (2/5/97) L 94-77Steals
12 @ Purdue (1/22/94) L 101-63 Purdue Individual vs. Ohio State FG
16 (27) Rick Mount (2/11/69) W 88-85FGA 30 (9) Joe Sexson (1/30/54)
W 77-733 FG 7 (9) D.J. Byrd (2/7/12) W 87-843 FGA 11 (7) Jaraan
Cornell (1/21/98) L 82-71FT 20 (22) Glenn Robinson (2/23/94) L
95-85FTA 22 (20) Glenn Robinson (2/23/94) L 95-85OR 6 Matt Kiefer
(1/11/06) W 80-64DR 12 Brad Miller (2/5/97) L 94-77Rebs. 21 William
Franklin (1/8/72) W 78-70Pts. 40 Glenn Robinson (2/23/94) L
95-85Assists 12 Bruce Parkinson (2/24/75) L 84-72Blocks 7 A.J.
Hammons (2/5/15) L 58-60Steals 5 Chris Kramer (1/12/08) L 75-68
Date W/L OSU PU Site1/21/05 W 26 23 H2/10/13 L 18 28 A1/24/14 W
33 24 H2/27/14 W 32 22 A1/9/15 L 17 19 H2/6/15 L 17 19 A1/22/16 W
24 19 H2/4/16 W 25 19 A2/9/17 L 28 29 H3/3/17 L 17 32 A2/4/18 L 32
50 A2/22/18 L 20 38 H2/8/19 L 20 42 A3/1/19 L 21 27 H1/17/20 W 37
35 H3/1/20 L 25 63 A1/22/21 L 32 40 H2/12/21 L 23 41 A2/10/23 L 21
26 H2/27/23 L 20 53 A1/8/24 L 23 24 A2/27/24 W 39 26 H1/9/26 W 28
25 H1/13/26 L 22 29 A1/8/27 L 27 35 A2/12/27 L 29 33 H2/22/29 L 23
49 H3/4/29 L 34 45 A2/3/30 L 14 60 A2/15/30 L 25 27 (ot) H
1/8/32 L 33 38 (ot) H2/16/32 L 26 43 A2/18/33 W 28 27 HDate W/L
OSU PU Site2/27/33 W 29 17 A2/4/35 L 41 42 A2/23/35 W 40 39 H1/6/36
L 27 36 H2/3/36 L 27 48 A2/12/38 W 37 29 H2/21/38 L 36 49 A3/4/39 W
51 35 H1/8/40 L 32 49 A2/15/41 W 57 38 H1/10/42 L 32 45 A1/31/42 W
46 40 H1/23/43 W 34 32 A1/25/43 L 38 56 A2/4/44 L 49 59 H2/5/44 W
54 47 H1/6/45 L 36 37 A1/22/45 W 50 35 H1/5/46 W 57 50 H1/21/46 W
48 38 A2/10/47 W 75 61 H1/24/48 L 64 69 A1/22/49 W 66 56 H1/30/50 W
59 52 A2/3/51 W 84 72 H1/14/52 W 85 69 A1/10/53 W 67 65 A
2/2/53 W 79 77 H1/9/54 W 91 74 H1/30/54 W 77 73 A1/22/55 L 82 93
A2/19/55 L 70 82 H1/21/56 L 69 70 ADate W/L OSU PU Site1/7/57 W 75
68 H1/27/58 W 75 73 H2/8/58 L 63 83 A1/24/59 L 69 86 A3/7/59 L 87
93 H1/23/60 W 85 71 A1/28/61 W 92 62 H1/22/62 W 91 65 H1/29/62 W 94
73 A2/2/63 W 97 93 A3/2/63 W 95 75 H1/25/64 W 98 87 H1/9/65 L 64 71
A2/12/66 W 68 54 H3/7/66 L 86 92 A1/23/67 W 82 72 H2/13/67 L 66 86
A1/6/68 W 108 80 H2/24/68 L 72 93 A2/1/69 L 85 95 (ot) A2/11/69 W
88 85 H2/7/70 L 85 88 H2/9/71 W 69 67 A1/8/72 W 78 70 A
2/12/72 W 64 62 H1/27/73 W 79 73 A2/19/73 W 102 79 H1/28/74 L 65
67 H1/27/75 W 93 87 H2/24/75 L 72 84 A1/17/76 L 80 84 H2/14/76 L 73
98 A1/8/77 L 65 82 HDate W/L OSU PU Site2/17/77 L 61 90 A2/2/78 L
69 71 A2/11/78 W 91 77 H1/4/79 W 75 71 H3/3/79 L 66 74 A1/5/80 W 67
58 H2/28/80 W 64 60 A1/10/81 L 65 73 A 3/5/81 W 93 92 (3 ot)
H1/21/82 L 60 66 (ot) H2/11/82 W 74 68 A1/13/83 L 57 64 A3/5/83 W
76 65 H1/12/84 L 52 63 H3/3/84 L 63 85 A1/26/85 W 67 63 A2/21/85 W
86 68 H1/25/86 W 73 66 H2/20/86 L 79 85 A1/29/87 L 73 75 H2/28/87 L
73 87 A
1/7/88 L 77 84 A3/9/88 W 71 60 H2/6/89 W 70 58 H3/9/89 L 53 83
A1/25/90 L 66 78 H2/24/90 L 70 75 A2/3/91 W 66 59 H3/6/91 L 67 72
A2/8/92 W 71 59 H2/26/92 W 71 64 A2/3/93 L 57 62 H3/14/93 W 72 62
ADate W/L OSU PU Site1/22/94 L 63 101 A2/23/94 L 85 95 H1/21/95 L
66 92 A2/22/95 L 55 64 H1/27/96 L 53 70 A2/15/96 L 55 63 H2/5/97 L
77 94 A1/21/98 L 71 82 A2/7/98 L 75 107 H*1/19/99 W 72 43 H*2/6/99
W 80 69 A*1/29/00 W 68 59 H*2/14/01 W 65 64 A*1/2/02 W 79 71
A*2/23/02 W 77 66 H1/29/03 L 65 70 A2/22/03 W 52 44 H1/31/04 W 65
59 A2/2/05 W 75 65 H1/11/06 W 80 64 A3/5/06 W 76 57 H1/31/07 W 78
60 A2/10/07 W 63 56 H3/9/07 W 63 52 N1/12/08 L 68 75 A3/4/08 W 80
77 (ot) H2/03/09 W 80 72 (ot) H2/28/09 L 50 75 A3/15/09 L 61 65
N1/12/10 W 70 66 A2/17/10 L 57 60 H1/25/11 W 87 64 H2/20/11 L 63 76
A2/7/12 W 87 84 H3/9/12 W 88 71 N1/8/13 W 74 64 A12/31/13 W 78 69
A2/8/14 W 67 49 H3/13/14 W 63 61 N2/5/15 L 58 60 A3/1/15 W 65 61
H1/21/16 L 64 75 A1/5/17 L 75 76 H2/7/18 W 64 63 A1/23/19 L 67 79
H3/2/19 L 51 86 A2/15/20 W 68 52 H12/16/20 L 60 67 ANOTE: Games in
*Italic vacated by NCAA.
Purdue Series Records
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