
If there’s one way to summarize a lost season for the Ohio State Buckeyes, it’s that there were no shortage of opportunities to get it right.
That made Wednesday’s likely men’s NCAA tournament–eliminating loss to the Iowa Hawkeyes something of a microcosm of the season, one that started in a blaze of glory with a 14-made-threes masterpiece against the Texas Longhorns and ended with a whimper on the first day of a mostly empty Big Ten tournament. The chances were plentiful, and the Buckeyes couldn’t take advantage.