Basketball

Former Ohio State forward Marc Loving has signed a contract with the Philadelphia 76ers Friday, Michael Scotto of Basketball Insiders reported Friday. Philadelphia 76ers will sign former Ohio State forward Marc Loving, a league source told @BBallInsiders. — Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) October 14, 2017 The ...

When a team has a player as talented and accomplished as Ohio State senior guard Kelsey Mitchell, there is only so much a coach can contribute. Head coach Kevin McGuff said the prolific scorer has worked to improve her defense this offseason. But he believes ...

Ohio State Athletics Director Gene Smith will be a part of the NCAA’s Commission on College Basketball, a 14-member committee tasked with “examining critical aspects of a system that clearly is not working,” NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement Wednesday. The creation of ...

No one has ever questioned the prolific Ohio State women’s basketball team’s offense. Led by the 2015 and 2017 Big Ten Player of the Year senior guard Kelsey Mitchell, the Buckeyes averaged 85.7 points per game last season, the fourth-most among Division I teams. But ...

Ohio State men’s basketball head coach Chris Holtmann promised during his opening press conference in June that a “really challenging” nonconference schedule was a priority. Tuesday, his influence on the Buckeyes’ future schedules was first seen with the scheduling of a season-opening home-and-home with highly ...

Ohio State will open the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons with games against Cincinnati, the school announced Tuesday morning. The Buckeyes will travel south to play in the Bearcats’ inaugural game in their new arena, Fifth Third Arena, in 2018. The Bearcats will then head to ...

Ohio State men’s basketball head coach Chris Holtmann ponders where his team will find offense as he enters his first season after leaving Butler and its highest-rated recruiting class in program history behind him. Holtmann was hired to replace Thad Matta in June, but has ...

Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann addressed the media Thursday at the Schottenstein Center, following his players speaking on Wednesday before the team begins practice Saturday. Holtmann began the press conference saying, “It’s been a pretty slow week here in college basketball,” indirectly referencing the ...

Knowing how the Ohio State men’s basketball team was going to perform each night the past two seasons was a mystery. This year, it might be even more difficult to predict. Ohio State held its preseason media day Wednesday with all seven returning players, plus ...

Ohio State men’s basketball players said Wednesday they were aware of the ongoing FBI investigation into college basketball corruption, but made clear they hadn’t experienced anything similar to the allegations. Sophomore center Micah Potter said he had not experienced any illegal recruiting and added that ...